“When you’re drowning and all you’re handed is the end of a sword to pull you up above the waves, do you take it?”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is evil, there is good.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Is there only so much pain a man can stand before he becomes irreparably broken?”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“I can’t control the world. I can’t make the world a safe place for my children. They may face trouble and they may struggle. They may even encounter darkness and evil. I cannot change that. That is beyond my control. What I can do, however, is show them that where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is evil, there is good.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“You’re no stranger to storms. The waves may rage, but you can rise above them.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“I looked down into my baby’s beautiful green eyes and ached inside. She looked up at me with wide-eyed innocence. I kissed her warm cheeks and stroked her fine black hair, then pulled her close against my chest. If anything should happen to you while I’m gone, I will have nothing left to live for.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“The exact spot where Derek woke up. Where I first met him. Where it all started. The”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“To have her respond in kind, unhindered by the Elder, was an ecstasy I wanted to lose myself in forever.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Although she showed no visible signs of being possessed, I could no longer deny this as a possibility. I”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Something told me though that the small hunter would find a way to wrangle herself out of it. I chuckled softly before thrusting myself off the railing.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Our kiss was interrupted rather unceremoniously by a third party. Something coarse and wet slapped against my cheek. Shadow was attacking me with his smelly snake-like tongue. “Urgh,”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“But then the devil with the red eyes came to take my son away. And barely a moment later, the Ageless came to whisk my Sofia away too. To”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“The love of my life. The person without whom all would be for nothing. My ever-burning light. My break of day.”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“She threw her bouquet into the crowd. Abby dove for it with her vampire speed and a huge goofy smile spread across her face when she caught it. Tears”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“What I can do, however, is show them that where there is darkness, there is light. Where there is”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“stupid adventure course. That, and the fact that this really was going to be our last summer as humans. “It’s just this once,” Ben said quietly. “For two months. They’ll never”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Is this to be my life? To rise up only to be brought back down to my knees, shattered into shards? We’d”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“I was burning up inside and no amount of water could extinguish me. I”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“She breathed gently and her round face had an expression of serenity, as if all was right with the world. As if I was cradling her brother in my arms alongside her… as if her mother… I”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Since our separation, although my heart, mind and body were screaming with despair, I’d had to find the strength within myself to still smile each day for Rose. Her obliviousness was her blessing; it sheltered her from pain. I needed to keep it that way. My”
― Bella Forrest, quote from A Break of Day
“Just always be waiting for me.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan (Illustrated with Interactive Elements)
“I will wake a hundred times, lost in the madness of this nightmare, until the sunlight streaming through my windows finally burns the scene away. Even then, hours later, I cannot be sure I am not still in my dream.
I am afraid that, one night, I will never wake. I will be doomed to rush to that door over and over again, running from a nightmare in which I am always, forever, lost.”
― Marie Lu, quote from The Midnight Star
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. "You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it." "To forget it!" "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." "But the Solar System!" I protested. "What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
“You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from On the Road: the Original Scroll
“I don’t do that. With anyone.” “You’re celibate?” “No. Celibacy is a choice. I’m asexual. I don’t get those feelings.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Every Heart a Doorway
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