Kyla Stone > Quotes

“This was peace. This was everything right and beautiful and good. The music swelled through the room, deep and sonorous and lilting. It was a song full of hope and dreams and love and every good thing that inspired people to feel, that made them human. It was a song to break the world. It was a song to remake it again.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“And I’ll let you in on a little secret. Crying doesn’t mean you aren’t strong. Tears aren’t weak. Emotions aren’t weak. They’re part of what makes us who we are. We can be happy and brave and strong, but we can also be sad and worried and scared. So don’t wipe your tears away, okay?”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“You make it sound so terrible. There’s nothing wrong with crying. Tears are healing. They help you drain out the sorrow and anguish, so you can start filling yourself with more positive emotions, when you’re ready.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“If only closed minds came with closed mouths.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“There’s a link between creativity and mental illness,” Lucas continues. “Creative people feel more, think more. They’re more sensitive. Most people try to skim over the painful stuff, artists dwell on it. Dad always says Mom thinks too much. Too much brewing spoils the pot. Or something like that.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Whatever sets us above even the most intelligent animals. Our ability to love, to be just, to be merciful, to forgive, to dream. To believe in something greater and better than ourselves. To hope.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“corrupt and greedy politicians ruled us, taxed us to death, sucked the teat of America dry. No one could do anything about it. Not the little people, anyway. They taught us that voting could change things, fix things, but we’ve just been trading one charlatan for another, through every level of government.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Defiance

“Albert,”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Defiance

“The consolidation of power in the guise of public safety. It’s an age-old game that’s been played a thousand times throughout time on government stages large and small. The erosion of our rights is the slow death of freedom. We’re the frogs basking in the warm pan bath while the water boils us to death, and some of us don’t even realize it.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Anarchy

“What doesn’t kill you, disappoints me.”
― Kyla Stone, Falling Stars

“As long as you can still find beauty, you know you’ll be all right,” he said. “That’s what hope is.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“I—I’ve been shot.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Defiance

“deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ​— ​LAO TZU”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Valor

“There was no time for tears while the world fell to pieces all around you. The only thing left to do was survive. And surviving, at least, she was good at.”
― Kyla Stone, The Last Sanctuary Omnibus #1-5: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series

“Forgotten how love was a two-way street and people couldn’t help you if you didn’t let them in, if you didn’t let them come into your messy ugly places and love you back to life.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Valor

“But she couldn’t save him. Just like he couldn’t save her. Not really. The hard work had to be done yourself. But that didn’t mean you had to make the journey alone.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Anarchy

“Mom says the people you love who die still live in your heart,” Milo said in a soft voice. “You remember them with other people, to talk about them. That’s what keeps them with you. How they laughed and what they smelled like. How they made you feel. That’s”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Valor

“Tan Turd”
― Kyla Stone, The Light We Lost

“She’d seen the face of the devil, and the devil could go straight to hell.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Defiance

“Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Madness

“just stared at him. “Are you okay?” Noah asked her. She scowled. “Fine and dandy. I can practically feel the sprinkles and rainbows bursting out of my ass.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Madness

“I hope you enjoyed Edge of Valor, the epic conclusion to the Edge of Collapse survival series.”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Valor

“God gives us a choice. Every single one of us. We make choices for good or choices for evil. Choices for self-protection and survival or choices for something bigger, better, greater than ourselves. Even when it doesn’t feel like a choice, it still is.
I have a choice".”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Common sense is like deodorant…the people who need it most…never use it.”
― Kyla Stone, Fear the Fallout

“will not risk a David-and-Goliath war here. You have no idea what a war entails.” “David won.” “What?” Willis snapped. Cleo raised her chin with an imperious tilt. “David won, you idiot.”
― Kyla Stone, Breaking World

“goldfinches”
― Kyla Stone, The Dark We Seek

“•        National Child Abuse Hotline: They can provide local referrals for services. A centralized call center provides the caller with the option of talking to a counselor. They are also connected to a language line that can provide service in over 140 languages. Hotline: 800.4.A.CHILD (422.2253)”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“The caterpillar who inches along the ground, plagued by shadows and predators, who can’t even see the sky—does she still imagine being in it? Does she dream of flying, of sunlight flashing off iridescent wings? Does she feel that primal urge within her cells, a flickering deep within her DNA, like a whisper—that she wasn’t made for this? That there’s more, so much more—but she’ll have to destroy herself to reach it. It will be her destruction or her salvation. She doesn’t know which. She spins her own coffin anyway.”
― Kyla Stone, Beneath the Skin

“Who says they’re sleeping?”
― Kyla Stone, Edge of Anarchy

“You faced the future with courage or cowardice; it was coming for you either way.”
― Kyla Stone, Nuclear Dawn #1-5: The Post-Apocalyptic Box Set