“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
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“It was cold, but we weren't about to make Max leave because we didn't know if he or any of us would ever make it back to Canada's capital city, let alone this very spot, and even if we did, somehow we knew it would never be the same as right then. There would be different variables, if we came back, a totally different equation made up of wildly different circumstances; it just couldn't be helped, because life was always evolving and changing, and therefore, no matter how much we'd like to, we would never, ever have that moment again--even if we tried with all our might to re-create it, going so far as wearing the exact clothes even, we would fail, because you cannot beat time; you can only enjoy it whenever possible, as it zooms by endlessly.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from The Good Luck of Right Now
“When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, quote from The Country of the Pointed Firs
“While all women are wicked, not all are weak.”
― quote from Stray
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is often true that familiarity is fatigue. I am convinced that if we could tell the supernatural story of Christ word for word as of a Chinese hero, call him the Son of Heaven instead of the Son of God, and trace his rayed nimbus in the gold thread of Chinese embroideries or the gold lacquer of Chinese pottery, instead of in the gold leaf of our own old Catholic paintings, there would be a unanimous testimony to the spiritual purity of the story. We should hear nothing then of the injustice of substitution or the illogicality of atonement, of the superstitious exaggeration of the burden of sin or the impossible insolence of an invasion of the laws of nature. We should admire the chivalry of the Chinese conception of a god who fell from the sky to fight the dragons and save the wicked from being devoured by their own fault and folly. We should admire the subtlety of the Chinese view of life, which perceives that all human imperfection is in very truth a crying imperfection. We should admire the Chinese esoteric and superior wisdom, which said there are higher cosmic laws than the laws we know.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from The Everlasting Man
“Ensuring that our home planet is healthy and life sustaining is an overwhelming priority that undercuts all other human activities. The ship must first float.
Our failure to grasp these fundamental tenants of existence will be our undoing. And one thing is for certain. No calvary is going to come charging to our rescue. We are going to have to rescue ourselves or die trying.
Workable solutions are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. The real issue is our elementary accord with Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms has to be revitalized and re-understood.
The burning question is, How?”
― Lawrence Anthony, quote from Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
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