Quotes From "Dark" By H28

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Oscar Wilde

How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline."I swear it, " said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."" Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline."Oh yes, " said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back. Neil Gaiman

Through the darkest hours of the nightand through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry skyand beyond galaxies I am free. Through the grimmest memoriesand past a seasons air I cannot breathe, Far beyond this mortal worldin an afterlife we shall meet. Lee Argus

Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity. Heena Rathore P.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die. Jess C. Scott

HEARTWORKEach day is born with a sunriseand ends in a sunset, the same way weopen our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control overhow your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know thatall things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. And every flower returns to sleepwith the earth. The journey of the sunand moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate A R T. Suzy Kassem

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness. Galt Niederhoffer

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow-that, in short, we are all going John Green

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of. Stephen King

I remeber asking a wise man, once .. . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' .. . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No, ' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things! --but only so long as it remains invisible. R. Scott Bakker

She looks to be about three, the same age as his daughter at home in California...the girl's eyes are open. She seems to be cowering... Graves reaches in to pick her up- thinking about what medical supplies he might need to treat her...when the top of her head slides off and her brains fall out. Evan Wright

I cruised into this war thinking my buddy's going to take a bullet, and I'm going to be the fucking hero pulling him out of harm's way. Instead, I end up pulling out this little girl we shot, hiding in the backseat of her dad's car. Evan Wright

In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I receded, faded back into the scenery of my own dark self, whole the other me crouched and growled. I would do It at last, do what I had been created to do. And I did. Jeff Lindsay

Here’s another big symbol, ” she says, still crouched and looking up at me. “These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful. Chuck Palaniuk

Make him love you, ” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil you know.” I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb. C.J. Roberts

I think if you had been born a boy, perhaps you would have been satisfied with what the world offered you. That is how we are alike. We saw everything that was not ours, and we hungered. Do not lose that hunger. You will always have to fight for everything. Even when you already have it, you will have to keep fighting to maintain it. You will have to be more ruthless, more brutal, more everything. Any weakness will undo everything you have accomplished. They will see any crack as evidence that they were right that a woman cannot do what you do. Kiersten White

Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets. Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear the howling of the demons in the darkness of your mind. Do not allow them to overshadow the light of your soul. Do not walk blindly into the darkness, or be snatched up by the wicked embrace of the devil. Michael Daugherty

Rage and revenge sat in his heart fanned by time and silence. Before he could realise anything, he was engulfed in flames. Everything he touched, lost its existence in his life. Turning him into a monster, who destroys everything in a daylight but cries in dark and silence. Akshay Vasu

Do I need a safe word?" "You either tust me or you don't, Emily. Laurelin Paige

Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, “Touch her, I’ll break your neck. Laurelin Paige

Feet shuffled closer then halted when Reeve said, "Touch her, I’ll break your neck. Laurelin Paige

She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place. Luca. Lee Monroe

And then, There was a love Shining so bright, That even the darkest part Of our hearts Felt the warmth Bryonie Wise

Wake early, take more! Julie Elise Landry

When you live on the edge of a cursed forest, you do a lot of staring into the dark. Sarah Dalton

I wait in fear, as the shadows draw near, spreading over the sky, will I live or die? H.G. Warrender

I think that we all drown, in one way or another. Unknown

I think the we all drown, in one way or another. Unknown

He kissed her, and the magic that had been building up steadily around them exploded, raining down in arcs of silver fire that made her half-remember a prophecy from her d Nenia Campbell

Hang in. We’ll make it. We all have each other. Danielle Steel

The mind was rarely a rational thing when it came to the dark or the unknown. Pooja Perumal

What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward into a mobile in her mind. They floated into dark-three, all-just-fine and then into all-fine, dark-just-three. Blue Balliett

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it. Dominic Riccitello

Pessimism is the key to see what really goes on within our world, the lies and manipulation that circles us all is exposed Zachary Kroonenburg

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia. Robert Friedrich

I bleed passion. I’m not entirely sure what this means but I’m greedy over the words. They’re so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark. Marley Jacobs

Dark is the world’s night without you my love, Pablo Neruda

The bright the light is, the darker the shadows are. Ashbeel Roy

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines. Nenia Campbell

Do I need a safe word?" "You either tust me or you don't, Emily Laurelin Paige

It's true what they say, you know. First fuck. First love. First kill. You never forget your first. Nenia Campbell

I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn. Nenia Campbell

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly." Assuredly, " she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything. Mary Balogh

How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn’t I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin? Excerpt From: Cameron Jace. “. Cameron Jace

I think the best fiction is about the absolute irrepressibility of love in the face of every circumstance to the contrary. Even in someone as dark, on the face of it, as Faulkner often is, there is that unquenchable glimmer.." Grace will ever find a way." I don't think fiction has to be hokey, or end up hitting you on the head with positivity, to be life affirming. I think all we have to do is go on down to the bottom of the truth and hang out there in the dark for a bit, with nowhere to go but up, and grace will find a way. Tim Farrington

Fix me, " I commanded him. "This thing, what I've done- there's something wrong with me, Noah. Fix it." Noah's expression broke my heart as he brushed my hair from my face and skimmed the line of my neck. "I can't."" Why not?" I asked, my voice threatening to crack. Noah lifted both his hands to my face, and held it. "Because, " he said, "you aren't broken. Unknown

You've got the wrong girl."" On the contrary.." the voice murmured, "I've got exactly the girl I want." Her body turned to ice. Her mind fought for calm. There were people only yards away, yet she was alone.. "You're bleeding." Lips closed over hers. A kiss so passionate that time faded and stopped.. so passionate, it sucked her breath away.. Searing heat swept through her- pain and pleasure throbbing through her veins. With a helpless moan, she leaned into him and realized with a shock the kiss had ended. Richie Tankersley Cusick

It's well established that when people are places in uncomfortably negative situations, they will frequently resort to dark humor as a coping mechanism to help relieve some of the heaviness that surrounds them. Micheal Slusher

You wanted to live, " he says." You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue."" What is it really?" I think about this. "Selfish.""Wanting to live is selfish?"" Yes. Stephanie Kuehn

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny. Sigmund Freud

Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon. Neal Shusterman

He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space. Liu Cixin

On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, 'The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.' Dark, she seems to be saying, as in inscrutable, not as in terrible. We often mistake the one for the other. Or we transform the future's unknowability into something certain, the fulfillment of all our dread, the place beyond which there is no way forward. Be again and again, far stranger things happen than the end of the world. . Rebecca Solnit

The future might be dark, but darkness shared wasn't a thing to be feared. It was to be embraced. Heather R. Blair

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration. Moonshine Noire

No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer. Andrea Levy

No. No… No! ’ the fear ebbed my voice, cut through me like a knife. I ran, bare feet slipping and sliding over the floorboards. I turned the corner and headed for the backdoor. Run. Run. I must run. As soon as I reached the backdoor in the kitchen, pulling the barn door from the hinges, I felt his gaze upon me. Cinders and kindling crunched at my feet; what had once been my lovely mahogany kitchen furniture was now little more than firewood. My crockery and china splintered in shards and as I turned to face him, I felt them dig into my skin, cut me with every shiver that bolted through my frame.‘ You wanted Hemlock House. You have, Hemlock House.’ His voice was dark, cruel and yet hauntingly light. As if cooing, whispering to a newborn. He was lounging against the countertop as if waiting for breakfast, as if waiting for something so meaningless. . Charlotte Munro

Thinking about going to the balcony and jumping off. JJM

The saddest part is, no one has missed me, no one would even know if I had died couple of days ago. So my dead body would just lay here, abandoned, without anyone noticing or thinking about where I am. Maybe I am not just important…just mistake, outcast, person who is easy to forget and leave behind JJM

Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out. Casey Renee Kiser

I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out. Kevin Brooks

No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out. Jeanette LeBlanc

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. Catherynne M. Valente