Krystle Matar > Quotes

“Better to be lonely and feel the sharp edges of it, she thought, than to be empty and filled with nothing.”
― Krystle Matar, Legacy of the Brightwash

“At least we could have been in pain together instead of me feeling isolated. ”
― Krystle Matar, The Alchemy of Sorrow

“Maybe it’s the Dominion way to separate your life from your parents, but Qasani families stay together. They sprawl in their mountain valleys, and they build tight-knit communities. Generations live in the same homes, and they can trace their lineage back to the hands that laid the foundation stones. Or… they could, back when. When they still lived there. Before war between other nations chased them off the mountain. ”
― Krystle Matar, The Alchemy of Sorrow

“Being in a familiar place is only making things worse, because I can see how wrong it all feels without them.”
― Krystle Matar, The Alchemy of Sorrow

“I know you feel like you’ve lost your whole world, but you’re not the only one who loved them.”
― Krystle Matar, The Alchemy of Sorrow

“Things get broken and lost and forgotten as we go through the world, things that we love, things we thought we couldn’t live without. You don’t need to fix everything. It’s not your job. And if we’re both a little broken because of the people we lost, so what? All we can do is keep going, Ishmael. The best thing we can hope for is not that we’re ‘fixed,’ but that we find people who understand the ways in which we’ve been broken. People who stand beside us anyway.’

We kneel on the new floor, holding the scraps and broken pieces of my father’s watch, and cry. It almost feels good to be crying with company, to be crying at home, in this familiar place.”
― Krystle Matar, The Alchemy of Sorrow