💬 Quotes

"You can spend a lifetime building a fortress of lies, but it only takes one honest question to bring the walls down."

"When the world ends, it’s not with a bang, but with a whimper, a rustle of silk, and the scent of ozone and rotting roses."

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who look at the darkness and see nothing, and those who look at the darkness and see everything."

"I’ve learned that the truth isn't always a beautiful thing. Sometimes, it’s a jagged, ugly shard that cuts you every time you try to hold onto it."

"You think you want to know the truth, but truth is a heavy burden, and most people are too fragile to carry it."

"In the land of the fae, nothing is ever what it seems. Beauty is a mask for cruelty, and light is merely the absence of shadow."

"I was a girl who liked things clear-cut, black and white, good and evil. Dublin was teaching me that the world was mostly gray, and the gray was where the monsters lived."

"Love is a dangerous thing, Rose. It makes you do stupid things. It makes you forget who you are. And worse, it makes you forget who you need to be."

"The past is a ghost that never really leaves. It just changes shape and waits for you to turn your back."

"You can never be sure that you haven't been the villain in someone else's story, just as you are the protagonist in your own."

"There’s no such thing as a clean getaway. The past is a tether; it follows you around like a shadow, no matter how fast you run."

"Everything is a story. You tell it, and then it exists; you stop telling it, and it vanishes like a breath on a cold window."

"We were not heroes; we were merely survivors, picking through the wreckage of our own making."

"The blind assassin is the one who kills without knowing why, blinded by their own conviction that they are the ones being hunted."

"The past doesn't stay buried; it just waits for the soil to turn loose."

"We spend our whole lives trying to fill the void, never realizing the void is what gives us shape."

"Memory is a unreliable narrator, stitching together pieces of a story until it’s something you can almost live with."

"Secrets are heavy things to carry, but they’re even heavier once you put them down."

"Sometimes you have to break the machine to see how it was designed to fail."

"Silence isn't empty; it's loud with all the things we're too afraid to say out loud."