Krystal Sutherland > Quotes

“Love doesn't need to last a lifetime for it to be real. You can't judge the quality of a love by the length of time it lasts. Everything dies, love included. Sometimes it dies with a person, sometimes it dies on its own. The greatest love story ever told doesn't have to be about two people who spent their whole lives together. It might be about a love that lasted two weeks or two months or two years, but burned brighter and hotter and more brilliantly than any other love before or after. Don't mourn a failed love; there is no such thing. All love is equal in the brain.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“The best thing the universe ever gave us is that we'll all be forgotten. [...] I kinda like the idea. That when we die, despite any pain or fear or embarrassment we experienced during our lives, despite any heartbreak or grief, we get to be dispersed back into nothingness. It makes me feel brave, knowing I'll get a blank slate at the end. You get a brief glimmer of consciousness to do with what you will and then it's given back to the universe again. I'm not religious, but even I can appreciate that that's redemption, on the grandest scale. Oblivion isn't scary; it's the closest thing to genuine absolution of sin that I can imagine.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Just because a love ends doesn't mean it wasn't real.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“I am the thing in the dark.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“People are perfect when all that's left of them is memory.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“That’s a pretty heavy burden to bear, being everything for someone.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“They've poisoned you with this 'love is patient, love is kind' bullshit since you were a kid. But love is scientific, man. I mean, it's really just a chemical reaction in the brain. Sometimes that reaction lasts a lifetime, repeating itself over and over again. And sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it goes supernova and then starts to fade. We're all just chemical hearts. Does that make love any less brilliant? I don't think so.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Why are you so beautiful, do you think? So hungry? So able to bend the wills of those around you? You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.
Maybe it was the way you looked in the mornings when you first woke up and hadn’t showered. Maybe it was the way you were too available, because despite what everyone says, playing hard to get is still attractive.
Some days you will believe that every atom of your being is defective somehow. What you need to remember, as I remembered as I watched Grace Town leave, is that you are extraordinary.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy, Grace. Reading Harry Potter is what is right.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Draft Three
Because I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with songs. How the tune of them could mean nothing to you at first, an unfamiliar melody, but quickly turn into a symphony carved across your skin; a hymn in the web of your veins; a harmony stitched into the lining of your soul”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Some people go missing because they want to; some go missing because they’re taken. And then there are the others—those who go missing because they fall through a gap somewhere and can’t claw their way back.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“My sisters. My blood. My skin. What a gruesome bond we shared.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“some things are more beautiful when they've been broken.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Everyone we let into our lives has the power to hurt us. Sometimes they will, and sometimes they won't, but that's not a reflection of us, or our strength. Loving someone who hurts you doesn't make you weak.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Nothing in her life had ever been neat or ordered. She slammed through the world, a tornado in the form of a girl, and left a trail of destruction behind her.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of your children. What kind of environment would they be growing up in with such a mother?”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Because I have never met anyone that I wanted in my life that way before.
But you.
I could make an exception for you.”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“The best thing the universe ever gave us is that we'll all be forgotten”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Grace had torn me apart and put me back together so many times that I'd started to believe that was what I wanted. A kintsukuroi relationship, more beautiful for having been broken. But something can only be shattered so many times before it becomes irreparable...”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Anxiety felt like a grapnel anchor had been pickaxed into your back, one prong in each lung, one through the heart, one through the spine, the weight curving your posture forward, dragging you down to the murky depths of the sea floor. The good news was that you kind of got used to it after a while. Got used to the gasping, brink-of-heart-attack feeling that followed you everywhere. All you had to do was grab one of the prongs that stuck out from the bottom of your sternum, give it a little shake, and say, “Listen, asshole. We’re not dying. We have shit to do.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Both of my sisters were the great loves of my life. I couldn’t live without them. I didn’t want to.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“What you don’t understand,” she said to me once when I told her how dangerous it was, “is that I am the thing in the dark.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“The things you own end up owning you”
― Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts

“Your life would be happier if you didn’t know.” “Knowledge is power.” “And ignorance is bliss.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow: The haunting New York Times bestseller

“I got you out," Grey said fiercely. "I gave you the life I promised you I would give you. I have no regrets. I want you to know that. I would do everything I did again, one hundred times over. When you are ready to talk to me, I will be waiting for you, because I am your sister.
In this life, and in the last.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow