Angel > Angel's Quotes

“Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom …”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Diary,
You don't know what it's like. To wake up and see her there.
But I do.
Draco”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“You think, out of a room of hundreds, I'd choose you?"
"I'd choose you."
"Because, let me tell you, I fucking wou-" Draco's words stop as though he's been magically silenced.
"You what?" He asks quietly. Barely a murmur.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times.
I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“The worst part was that anxiety didn’t just affect the way you thought, or the way you talked, or the way you were around others it affected the way your heart beat. The way you breathed. What you ate. How you slept. Anxiety felt like a grapnel anchor had been pickaxed into your back, one prong in each lung, one through the heart, one through the spine, the weight curving your posture forward, dragging you down to the murky depths of the sea floor. The good news was that you kind of got used to it after a while. Got used to the gasping, brink-of-heart-attack feeling that followed you everywhere. All you had to do was grab one of the prongs that stuck out from the bottom of your sternum, give it a little shake, and say, “Listen, asshole. We’re not dying. We have shit to do.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Like HIV, depression was a king at playing hide-and-seek. It concealed itself in reservoirs deep inside the mind, waiting for the walls you built around it to eventually erode. Depression could be at undetectable levels for months or years. You'd be all happy and stable and think you were cured, you were a survivor, and then BAM, out of nowhere it resurged.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“People got tired of mental illness when they found out they couldn't fix it.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Once you love someone, no matter who they are, you’ll always let them destroy you. Every single time. Even the very best people found ways to hurt the ones they loved.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“There was no Eugene without his darkness. And maybe that was the problem.
Maybe Eugene wasn't afraid of what was in the darkness.
Maybe Eugene was afraid of the darkness that was inside himself.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“It isn't about you. Not at all. It never has been. You can love someone with all your soul and still hate yourself enough to want to die.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Of course it’s not going to be easy. You’re fighting a war against yourself. Every time either side makes ground, you’re the one who gets hurt. But it’s not about winning the war against your demons. It’s about calling a truce and learning how to live with them peacefully. Promise me you’ll keep fighting. -Esther”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Esther went to her room and sat on her bed and contemplated what it meant that the curse wasn't real. That it wasn't a spell that made Eugene so sad, just depression. It wasn't magic that bound her farther to the basement, just anxiety. It wasn't a jinx that drove her mother to the slots, just an obsession. For the first time, all the broken bits of her family and herself seemed fixable; curses couldn't be broken, but mental illnesses could be treated.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“Jonah had once told her that one day, everybody would realize that their parents were human beings, and that sometimes they were good people and sometimes they were not. What he failed to mention- what she was only coming to appreciate at that exact moment- was that most of the time people were neither good nor bad, not righteous or evil, they were just people.
And sometimes love, even if it was all they had to offer, was enough.
It had to be.”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“With Jonah there in front of her, she wondered if people really fell in love with others or if they fell in love with the best parts of themselves. Love was a mirror that made our bright bits shine like stars and dulled even the harshest ugliness. We loved to love because it made us beautiful. And maybe there was nothing wrong with that.
Maybe we deserved to be beautiful”
― Krystal Sutherland, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

“She wanted to be liked. Perhaps this explained the parties, the crystalline laughter, the well-coiffed hair, the rehearsed smile. She thought that men such as her father could be stern and men could be cold like Virgil, but women needed to be liked or they’d be in trouble. A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“What resentments could sprout in a young heart when all affection and love had been denied?”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Agnes. Driven to madness, driven to anger, driven to despair, and even now a sliver of that woman remained, and that sliver was still screaming in agony. She was the snake biting its tail.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“This house had been built atop bones. And no one had noticed such an atrocity, rows and rows of people streaming into the house, into the mine, and never leaving. Never to be mourned, never to be found. The serpent does not devour it's tail, it devours everything around it, voracious, it's appetite never quenched.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet: An Edgar Award-Winning Young Adult Gothic Thriller of Criminal Psychology and Murder

“Dear child, do you even know all the rage that is inside you?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“If it was darkness you feared I would turn to while in his employ, fear not. The darkness has long lived inside me, sown if not by nature then by nurture.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Am I to be a kept woman, then?
Not for what's between my legs but my ears? Here to hop to your beck and call when you need a plaything for your night's adventures, no less of a doll for your own purposes than our killer's victims are to him?”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“The fault does not lie with you. It never did. You are not a temptation but simply a target for another's back sin.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Emotions were tearing you apart and they came out the only way they could. Grief is by nature the most violent of them al.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“Their chalkboard had always consisted of black and white, but the reality was gray, and she struggled with the pain of learning it.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“But it gave me power, to feel nothing. Me, who was so powerless. And I reveled i it for a time-”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“The original meaning of the word asylum is, in fact, "protection." I hope you have found it to be so in your bright surroundings as I have found my own niche here in the dark.”
― Mindy McGinnis, A Madness So Discreet

“No one notices women in the shadows. No one believes they will bring down the dagger.”
― J. Anderson Coats, Spindle and Dagger