Amber Darwin > Quotes

“Perhaps embracing your darkness, owning all the parts that never see the light of day - the balance between the light and dark that lives within all of us is the path to being whole. - Born of Blood and Flames”
― Amber Darwin, Born of Blood and Flames

“The saddest tears aren’t the ones that flow from your eyes, streaking down your cheeks and making a mess of your mascara. They’re the ones on the inside. The silent screams trapped inside your throat. That’s pain.”
― Amber Darwin, Heir of Bone and Shadows

“Love is a transient thing. A thought, a goal, a verb, an idea, an action. It can be so real, and yet… not. To some, it’s the ultimate high, an all-consuming obsession. For those who have been love-starved, it’s something else entirely. A bitter poison, a weakness. I thought I knew my definition of love until it destroyed me, and, in the wreckage I was remade. Born of Blood and Flames.”
― Amber Darwin, Born of Blood and Flames

“I always said that hearts are the wildest of beasts. That’s why they’re kept in cages.”
― Amber Darwin, The Daughter of Oracles

“That’s the thing about grief. It sneaks up on us in the most random moments. The pain demands to be felt, whether or not it’s convenient.”
― Amber Darwin, Heir of Bone and Shadows