Susan Illene > Quotes

“If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn’t it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels—they were hell’s minions and I’d stepped into their purgatory.”
― Susan Illene, Darkness Haunts

“when couples are tested by the greatest obstacles, don’t give up, and make it past them, they become stronger for it. Strength isn’t something that you’re born with, it’s something you build through a series of difficult experiences in your life that break you down and build you back up a little sturdier each time (if you let them). What’s the saying…forged by fire?”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“Nothing has changed, or will ever change. Melena, you belong to me. I would walk through the fires of hell for you. I would face anyone or do anything if it could keep you alive even one extra day. There is no price too high that I wouldn’t pay.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“It wasn’t the dead who suffered, but the living.”
― Susan Illene, Darkness Divides

“There are moments in one’s life that can put a shadow on the soul. A dark stain that changes a person—for better or worse—and they’re forced to move forward with the certain knowledge that they can no longer trust what they once perceived as truth. When that reality is changed, the only thing one can do is learn from it and do their best to not let it harm them again.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“Some places should be avoided at all costs. Troll villages, the woods on a full moon, and retailers on Black Friday”
― Susan Illene, Darkness Wanes

“Perhaps the archangel suffered from bowel movement problems. It would explain the constant grimace he wore.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“The only thing that has changed is my tolerance for you, guardian. It now ranks somewhere between mosquitoes and YouTube commercials—annoying and practically unavoidable.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“The lies you tell others don’t do near the damage as the ones you tell yourself.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“Folks there are driving me crazy. It’s all ‘Winter is coming’ like this is an episode of Game of Thrones or some shit. Oklahoma don’t get that damn cold.”
― Susan Illene, Dancing with Flames

“no matter how long you live, you’ll never run out of mistakes to make and lessons to learn.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“Love’s victory didn’t arrive by death.”
― Susan Illene, Darkness Clashes

“If they spent even one day in the mortal realm, they’d never want to come back. Heaven would lose its ignorant minions in a New York minute.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“I thought maybe if I flashed the dragon with my tits it would distract it long enough for the others to get away. Then I poked it in the eye with my sword. There. Does that explain it well enough for you?”
― Susan Illene, Stalked by Flames

“Logic. It could get you every time, but he preferred to cut it down with a sword.”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness

“Some people think love is a weakness, but if it’s returned in equal measure it can make you twice as strong.”
― Susan Illene, Darkness Clashes

“If he’d ever smiled in his long life, he must have strained a muscle to do”
― Susan Illene, Chained by Darkness