Kit Lyman > Quotes

“We were like bananas. Stuck together, we were ripe and yellow. But the moment one was torn apart, all the rest turned black and rotten.”
― Kit Lyman, Satan's Garden

“Let her go. Those three words sounded so easy, as if releasing Dani was as simple as cutting a balloon’s string and watching the sky swallow it whole. Instead, her memory was an anchor, pulling me into the darkness below. It reminded me that I was still just ten years old, stuck alone in the forest.”
― Kit Lyman, Satan's Garden

“It was then that I realized I was holding on because I thought it made it easier. But in reality, I was stuck. I will never stop loving Dani, and there won’t be a day that goes by that I won’t think of her. But I can’t be stuck anymore.”
― Kit Lyman, Satan's Garden

“As far as I could tell, there were only two phases to losing someone. The separation between each felt something like a teeter-totter; right when I had become comfortable with the first, I was launched straight into the next.”
― Kit Lyman, Satan's Garden

“The last thing I remembered as I headed over that edge was to never let her go. I knew she'd always been the one to build me wings for the way down.”
― Kit Lyman, Satan's Garden