Harshda > Harshda's Quotes

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with. You may not live on the island, but you can’t tell me it’s not your home. Your bubble, Mr. Baker. It’s been popped. Why would you allow it to grow around you again?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“You burn in my blood, Daria Cleavon. I will be ashes when I return. I will never be able to feel again."

- Tagen”
― R. Lee Smith, Heat

“The bad nights made the good ones impossible to enjoy; the good nights made the bad ones worse.”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“What does He tell you?” “He? What, you mean God?” Momentarily unpinned, Amber erupted into giggles just as fantastically inappropriate as her hysterics had been. “He tells me I’m going to need saving for the rest of my stupid life, that’s what He tells me!” And Meoraq nodded, either oblivious to her sarcasm or pretending to be. “Then I will always be there to save you.”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“you cannot have an easy journey, have an interesting story.”
― R. Lee Smith, The Last Hour of Gann

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I’m stronger now,” I whispered. “I won’t let you fall.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“To dive and fall.

To have a lifetime of searching for something.

Or to have five minutes of everything.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The secret of life that everyone knew and everyone forgot was that we weren’t alone. We thought we were unique. We thought we were the first. No one has been through what I’ve been through. No one else is feeling this. No one knows what it’s like to be me. This is the first time anyone has endured what I’ve endured, right?”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“You teach your daughter to hide in everyone else's world," I shot back, "and I'll teach mine everyone else exists in her. Go fuck yourself, and leave the kid alone.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I might kiss you again when we're older," he says. "Just so you know.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“It is an art how quickly you can make everyone want to kill you.”

I shrugged, hearing the smile in her voice. “I just can’t help myself.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Red.
Out of all the colors, I liked red the best.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“This is black,” he said. “Fear, falling, release. Excitement, risk, danger.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Our life is a series of plans,” she finally said. “Days, weeks, months, years… And then, there are moments. Moments you don’t see coming and you don’t plan, but everything you need, all the things you want to feel, are in that moment.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“People assumed I behaved strictly on impulse, when actually, it required quite a bit of strategy being this fucked up.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“What’s your tattoo?” I asked quietly, remembering how my friend noticed he had one.
He didn’t say anything for a moment, or ask how I knew, but then he answered, “A decaying snowflake.”
I raised my eyebrows. A decaying…
“Why?” I asked.
“Because of Winter by Walter de la Mare,” he replied softly. “Something still beautiful, even after what I did to her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The world respected people who didn’t crave approval.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Whenever you’re ready. As often as you like,” Cooper vowed. “You can always tell me what you want out of life and I’ll always be first pick on your heist team ready to help you get it.”
“As often as I like?”
“Dreams change. People change. Please just don’t stop giving me the chance to change with you.”
― Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf

“You already know I love you,” Park said, shaking his head impatiently. “So today I promise, I vow that I know you love me, too. I never doubt it. How could I when I feel it all the time? I feel it when you make me laugh and then watch with that pleased little look on your face. I feel it when you touch me like I’m special and when you can’t touch me anymore because you’re over-full of sensations, but let me stay by you anyway. I feel so safe in loving you, because I know you love me, too. And it’s the greatest gift of my life.”
“You love me,” Cooper said.
“Obviously.” And it was, wasn’t it? Park pulled Cooper closer, arms around his waist. “So if you’re the Moon, fine. I’m the sky. If you’re a human, I’m your wolf. If you’re a prickly, sarcastic, awkward, independent, randy-as-hell, secretly good-hearted porcupine, well, then I’m Oliver Park.”
“I can’t believe I’m being slandered in my own vows.”
“Whatever happens next, whoever we are or whoever they think we are, it doesn’t matter. Because the way we love is already the stuff of legends.”
Cooper couldn’t help smiling. “Well. I guess if you say it like that, it doesn’t sound like such a bad life,” he said, leaning in to kiss him, and felt Park’s body sigh into his like it was coming home.
No, not a bad life at all.”
― Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf

“Cooper, there isn't a room in the world I would be embarrassed to walk into with you by my side.”
― Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf

“What stage of love was it when another person became a habit? How quickly had the mere background hum of another person's life become such an essential fixture of the house that its absence felt like a robbery? Like their home had been gutted and he was left drifting around the remains...”
― Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf

“In some ways, their entire relationship had felt like tripping down a cliff side. Shoved over the edge into the unknown, stumbling over all sorts of obstacles and pitfalls that hadn’t done a whole hell of a lot to slow them down, caught, as they were, in the slipstream of gravity. Pulled by a momentum so powerful, so inevitable, that it was never even an option to stop falling. The only concern—whether they would hit the bottom on their feet or their faces.”
― Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf

“I see you've been speaking with the voice I hear in my head at three a.m. while paralysed with anxiety. Good, good.”
― Charlie Adhara, Cry Wolf

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl