Courtney M. Privett > Quotes

“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution

“Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“We were born of stars and in death we will return to them. Let's not strive to be black holes in the meantime. Let's illuminate the world instead of darkening it, instead of tearing it to pieces. Let's prove we are worthy of being stardust.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Arrow of Entropy

“Our lives were a complex tapestry, and our woven strands were only meant to intersect at a small number of points in the time-conceived whole. An embroidered starburst, a missed warp, a complicated notion on the loom of time. We were always together, but meant to live our majorities apart, two golden threads wandering through a haunted textile life.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“I miss the floral scent of her hair, the perfume that barely masked the underlying truth of what she was. She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn. And lilac. When she held me to her, lilac was what I smelled first.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution

“I can breathe where there is green. Green grows hope. It keeps my heart beating and helps me remember who I am.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost

“The two most common lies in our world are 'I'm fine' and 'You'll be okay'. They are said without harmful intent, and often said in an attempt to placate worries, but still they tell us it is not our place to make another person uncomfortable or to draw too much attention to ourselves. Over and over, we mindlessly repeat variations of the same two phrases as we hide within our lies and attempt to spare others from the miserable truth. I'm fine. I'm okay. You're fine. You'll be okay. Everything will be all right. We become our lies, but only on the surface. Underneath, we are not fine and they will not be okay. We all know this but we're afraid to speak it.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost

“We cry from pain, from loss, and from loneliness, but mostly we cry because we still have hope, and because we can still find joy even on the darkest and coldest of winter nights.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“The more things shatter, the more clear it becomes that the brittle and broken things will never again be made whole.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost

“We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Cavelost

“You are perfect because you are flawed. You are perfect because you are loved.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Shadows of Absolution

“What is love if not the gravity of souls?”
― Courtney M. Privett, Shards of Chaos

“Sometimes we find we love things we never thought we wanted. And then we regret that we never wanted them at all. It's the fear of change, I think, and dread of the unknown.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Spellkeeper

“Innocence has no place alongside immortality.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.”
― Courtney M. Privett, The Shattered Veil

“There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Arrow of Entropy

“Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem

“Your heartbeat is safe and familiar and all things home. It's the dance of dust on top of the kitchen cupboards, the wind through the rosemary, the brittle flutter of textbook pages, the embrace of a memory until now forgotten.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost

“Our descendants deserve libraries, not barracks. They deserve to inherit a world that values both their waking lives and their dreams.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“Time is a horrible temptress to waste one's life pondering.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Sand into Glass

“I think in fiction he searches for the life he wishes he had.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Spellkeeper

“I can't be free of this place, this haunted torture chamber echoing with thousands of years of blighted history. I can paint the walls, but I can't scrape the malice from the mortar. I can burn the curtains, but the blood splattered upon them only transitions to ash that stains the hearth.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Rain Falls on Malora

“I’m not going to tell you to wear a mask to hide your sadness just because my own mask is on the edge of shattering.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm

“Sometimes we try to do the right thing and instead the world laughs as it crushes our hopeful dreams.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Spellkeeper

“In dreams we become timeless. We can stretch one breath to the infinite, nestle deep into that single heartbeat, and create something wondrously impossible. We can shape our worlds and live our lives to their fullest. As many lives as we want, and in any direction. But we don’t know at what point that breath, that heartbeat, will reclaim us and transform everything we built into forgotten dust. Not even a full memory, only a ghost of a dream, replaced by the incessant light demanding that our bodies adhere to its own cruel schedule.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Dustlight

“Only the dead remember the truth.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Mayfly Requiem