K.J. Sutton > Quotes

“Sometimes it’s not about being stronger. It’s about being smarter.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“A beautiful thing was much harder to destroy than an ugly thing.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“God, give me patience or an untraceable handgun, I thought.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“In that moment, he truly did look like the Unseelie King. Like a dark fairy tale. Like a terrible dream.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“I glared at Collith and wondered if God had created his angels beautiful for practical reasons, rather than aesthetic ones. A beautiful thing was much harder to destroy than an ugly thing.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“Nightmares may be lies, but we don’t have to be liars.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“I view life like a story,” Laurie said. “A story in which I am the main character, and every terrible thing that happens is just a chapter in it. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, so I always remind myself that I am somewhere in the middle.”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“I know exactly what you are... and I think it's magnificent.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“Like the nightmares that came at night, we were meant to be seductive. We were designed to lure our victims in. Then, when it was too late to draw back, we struck.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“If you died, Fortuna, I'd follow you into whatever afterlife there is. The rest doesn't really matter, does it?”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“My captors had been careful to avoid physical contact these past three days.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“My own face was proof that beauty couldn’t be trusted.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“Fear is a seed, my love. It can grow from pain or anger...or it can grow from something else. Love. Hope. You are not a monster, Fortuna Sworn. Concentrate on the good, take it into you, and let the rest go.”
― K.J. Sutton, Restless Slumber

“The sort of grief that couldn't be given a voice, or it would become so big, so loud, that it ripped you apart from the inside.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“Watching her go, I wanted to tell my friend how the dark reveals things just as often as it hides them. Stars shine brightest in the sky, plants thrive at the bottom of the ocean, fireflies flicker over the grass.”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“The first thing we do on a dark night is look up. Always.”
― K.J. Sutton, Restless Slumber

“For me, you were never a Nightmare, Fortuna Sworn—you were a dream come to life.”
― K.J. Sutton, Deadly Dreams

“Anyone who defined this feeling as hate wasn’t making a mistake… because people chose hate. It was so much easier. Love was painful. Love was terrifying.”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“If you think about the people in the world who everyone remembers, the people who actually made something of themselves? They aren’t usually known for sticking to the status quo or following in someone else’s footsteps. Maybe being the black sheep just means we’re supposed to make our own legacies.”
― K.J. Sutton, Waysider

“I was the fire to his ice. The shout to is whisper. The run to his walk.”
― K.J. Sutton, Restless Slumber

“When you are in a room with a murderer, there are only two kinds of people. One is the killer. The other is the murdered. Which one would you rather be, at any given time?”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“At first, it’s like you’re walking around with this gaping wound in your chest, and it seems impossible that no one else can see it. Every time they pretend not to, you want to scream. But then, if they actually do notice, you don’t even want to think about the pain, much less talk about it. Try to explain it. Nothing you do will quicken the process or dull it, either. You just have to survive moment to moment, day to day, until one morning you wake up and it hurts a little less. There are setbacks, of course—you’ll have a thought or see something that reminds you of him, and it’s like you picked at the scab. But it does eventually fade… into a scar.”
― K.J. Sutton

“If she was chaos and night, he was calm and sunlight.”
― K.J. Sutton, Waysider

“Before I fixed my attention firmly elsewhere again, I confirmed that Laurelis Dondarte’s cock was just as big as his mouth.”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“Well, you know what they say. Never be nice to an asshole; all you get is shit in return.”
― K.J. Sutton

“It was never a good sign when the bad guy made a reference to his mommy right off the bat.”
― K.J. Sutton, Beautiful Nightmares

“Self is not a fixed identity but a fluid state of being.”
― K.J. Sutton, The Door at the End of the Stars

“You're safe here," I heard him say."I won't let anyone hurt you. Not again.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“I realized what he was doing. What he was recreating. It was the date we’d imagined together, laying next to each other in a dingy motel room. I could still feel the scratchy sheet against my cheek and see the glow in his eyes.”
― K.J. Sutton, Restless Slumber

“One would think you're having regrets, Your Majesty," I retorted, tucking what just happened away for later contemplation. "About you? Never.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn