Sarah M. Cradit > Quotes

“You're not going to write the greatest novel ever written.

Nor will I.

Nor will anyone.

Why? Because the greatest novel ever written is subjective and means something different to every person.

So don't focus on writing the greatest novel of all time.

Instead, focus on writing the greatest novel you've ever written.”
― Sarah M. Cradit

“Jon is my darkness. To accept him is to accept that part of myself, and if I do that, I'll never be rid of it. He would accept the things about me that I desperately want to change. I would slip deeper and deeper into the dark recesses of my own mind, and so would Jon.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“Because you are afraid that only the sight of your daughter's pain can bring you sadness over Janie's death.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, St. Charles at Dusk

“Just because something DOES NOT work, that doesn't mean it CANNOT.”
― Sarah M. Cradit

“The pillow whistled across the room and smacked him in the face. Nicolas smiled, satisfied. If he was going to die, this was the man he wanted to die beside.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“I'm only Oz when I'm with Adrienne.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, St. Charles at Dusk

“At first he chalked it up to his sadness at her leaving, but it started to develop into a feeling that was almost worse: doubt.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“But Nicholas had no room for practicality when there was fun to be had. There was no one as capable of taking a seemingly innocuous situation and turning it into a raving adventure.

Jane. What a boring, and obviously fake, name. This oughta be fun.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, Beyond Dusk: Anne

“What would she think if I told her we had had this almost exact conversation many times before? As before, I decided not to argue with her. To her, the answer was simple and she wouldn't see it any other way. I truly believed that my father, to the contrary of her suggestion, would not understand and might never.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, St. Charles at Dusk

“Faith and blindness are often confused. Ignorance is not permission to loiter in darkness,”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The House Of Crimson & Clover Box Set Volumes V-VIII: A New Orleans Witches Family Saga

“Ana used to say it felt like there was more than one of her, and that the two parts were always in conflict.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep ... that have taken hold. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The House Of Crimson & Clover Box Set Volumes V-VIII: A New Orleans Witches Family Saga

“Isn’t that the damn point of love? To find someone who can see past the bullshit, beyond the darkness, farther than all the fucked-up corners of our lives in an effort to find something worth embracing?”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Hinterland Veil

“Holy… mother of…” She started to fall, and Jon’s arms quickly righted her again. “Yeah,” Jon said. “Over two feet deep.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The House Of Crimson & Clover Box Set Volumes V-VIII: A New Orleans Witches Family Saga

“Love has always been an affliction I misunderstood at the outset, and ruined in the final stretch.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, Myths of Midwinter

“To quote the venerable Plato, ‘Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The House Of Crimson & Clover Box Set Volumes V-VIII: A New Orleans Witches Family Saga

“Let’s now, and always, remember that dwelling on what the future holds brings us nothing but misery. All we have is the happiness of the day.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The House of Crimson & Clover Boxed Set Volumes V-VII

“People fear what they don’t understand, Finn had said once. You’re not an open book, so they can’t read you. And if they can’t read you, they fill in the blanks with their own ideas. Human nature is distrustful.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“It isn’t that I don’t feel things,” Ana continued. She looked down at her water, swirling it around in the glass. “I don’t know how to explain to people what it’s like to be a prisoner of your own thoughts. Of a darkness you were born with and can’t shake.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“Ana knew he cared for her, but why? Did he see the darkness inside her? Did he understand her craving to be alone more than with others?”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“But all we can do is try to move forward. There’s nothing to be gained from dwelling on mistakes, if nothing changes.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“Their eyes couldn’t see what brains could never conceive.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Hinterland Veil

“There was nothing she could say, after that admission. I love you, but not like that. I need you, but not the way you need me.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“It seems changing locations didn’t change anything. Maybe there’s something fundamentally wrong with me.” Ana laughed, but he didn’t think she was joking.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness

“She looked around, then lowered her voice, closing the gap between them. “I need to know some figures. I can’t exactly go to my father and ask him to turn the ferry lines back on.” Ah, so Nicolas did have a plan. “But I do know some fishing boat captains, and a couple of them might be interested if the price outweighed the risk.”
― Sarah M. Cradit, The Storm and the Darkness