Brittany Picard > Brittany's Quotes

“We stare at a fire because it flickers, because it glows. The light is what catches our eyes, but what makes a man lean close to a fire has nothing to do with its bright shape. What draws you to a fire is the warmth you feel when you come near.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Fear is the real death. It’s what keeps us from living. I should have been fully alive with you”
― Karina Halle, Crown of Crimson

“It is a fatal human flaw to want everything now and all at once, and not realize everything is happening now and all at once. It is always now.”
― Karina Halle, Crown of Crimson

“Good girl,” Death says appreciatively under his breath.”
― Karina Halle, Crown of Crimson

“For women everywhere. Be your own gods. Your Mother commands it.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“You took by force what you always had by love.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“Women bring life into the world. To denigrate women is to degrade life itself. There must be equality, not domination. Harmony, not hierarchy. Compassion, not violence. Women must be cherished as we cherish this world that sustains us.”
― Nikki Marmery, Lilith

“Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Sometimes the happiest people are the saddest,”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Run, if I catch you, I f-k you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“His voice is full of dark promises and dangerous beginnings.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Run little mouse”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Let me feel you fall in love,”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I’m going to burn the entire fucking world down until I find her, and I don’t care who gets burnt.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“She holds on to me like she’s falling, but I have no interest in catching her. I will always fall with her, chasing after her even in death.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Scars only serve as reminders of what we’ve survived, not what killed us.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“tried so hard to run from him, and now all I want to do is run to him.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I’ve followed you through lifetimes, Adeline. My soul needs you so badly that I’ve become a shadow, destined to hunt you for eternity.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“If you’re my death, then I’m your fucking lifeline.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“You’re brave. Incredibly brave, and a goddamn survivor, and it’s admirable as fuck. You have no idea how proud of you I am. But you’re also impulsive, and reactive, and I refuse to lose you again, do you hear me? I won’t. Which means that you have to listen to me, and you cannot go off and do your own thing because you think you’re helping. We’re a team, baby. Got it?”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline