J. Leigh Bralick > Quotes

“Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Prism

“When I was younger, I used to think that loving someone meant being weak. I thought it meant giving yourself up and losing your identity, and becoming just an other to someone else. I thought that only those who weren’t strong enough to stand on their own needed someone to lean on. I never realized that love is as much about giving strength as accepting it, and that love doesn’t mean that you can’t stand on your own, but only that now you can fly.”
― J. Leigh Bralick

“Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Down a Lost Road

“Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me”
― J. Leigh Bralick, The Madness Project

“To peace, Royin... We give our lives seeking it, but it is only in death that we find it.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Down a Lost Road

“All I’m trying to say is, be kind to yourself. This one life is all we’ve got, and we all make mistakes along the way. Do things we oughtn’t, fail to do those we should. See those moments for what they were. Learn from them what you can. And then stand up a little taller and keep marching forward. In the end it’s how we keep going that matters. The world won’t remember our falls unless we never pick ourselves up.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, A Dark So Deep

“Shut up,” I snapped. “This is not the time. What part of this situation seems like a joke to you?”

Lohka pulled up his knees, giving a feeble, half-manic little laugh. “Oh, maybe just the idea that some soul-devouring being of chaos could be waiting anywhere to finish destroying my life,” he said. “That’s kind of hilarious, you know. Have you ever had a soul-devouring being of chaos hunting you down so it could finish eating you?”

“No,” I said. “I’m sorry, Lohka.”

“That’s nice,” he muttered.

“What about the part where this soul-devouring being of chaos seems to have a taste for me at the moment?” Zhabyr asked. “Can we worry about that, now? Because I kind of already am.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Prism

“Do not think that what is beyond your wisdom to grasp, is impossible to accomplish.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Down a Lost Road

“Maybe Hayli was a Moth, but for me she was the candle. I didn’t know why. I could never make sense of the way the world tipped sideways when she came into the room, or the way her smile put the sun to shame. She was just Hayli—lost but confident, unsure but dazzling. A wild-eyed girl with the joy of the stars in her veins.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, The Madness Project

“Sometimes it’s the suffering we don’t ask for that means the most.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, A Sea Like Glass

“I scowled and pushed the thought aside. I was not about to let logic interfere with my crazy hopes.”
― J. Leigh Bralick, Down a Lost Road