Dark Past Quotes

“I can’t get forensics over here to dig up the yard because my friend here, and her dog, didn’t hear a single thing. I don’t think they’ll go for it, Valerie.”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

“Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“My advice: give it up now and be glad you failed the first time. Look at me, I’ve only killed one person and look what it’s turned me into.”
― Clare Urbanski, Sixth in Line

“I didn't falter and together we matched, step for step. Each swing of the sword was blocked, each step countered. No blade ever made contact with flash. We twirled around; my concentration far too focussed to feel dizzy. All I could see was Macrucio's wicked smirk, one that reminded me far more of my past than even Nathaniel did. I wasn't fighting Macrucio now; it was my former life I had to eradicate.”
― Freedom Matthews, Inherited

“I had had a life, before. Before the hovel of mean and biting children. Before the women who cared for me with fists and bruises. Before a life haunted by fear and crammed into the dirty darkness with strange bodies.”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“Despite her bare skin against mine, she wore secrets like armor, and she shed them for no one. Not even me.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“Our conversation lapses in silence. Sometimes words are not needed. Some dark pasts are best left untouched.”
― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Entwined