“Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can say I tried.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“You cannot outwalk your problems. Can never run fast enough to evade them completely.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“No: What the heck happened?
Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of things can always be undone, and oftentimes aren't nearily as lethal as we think—or, should I say, as we allow them to be.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Because I don't have everything I want. Not even close.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“What we think about, what we concentrate on, will always, always, be reflected on the outside.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“...if this Roman dude’s as bad as you say, then why are you lurking outside his store looking all charged and heated like a dog waiting for its owner?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Foolish Ever, don't you realize there's no longer any difference between you and your-monster? You are the monster. It's your dark side, your shadow self, and you've now joined as one.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“As above, so below, as within, so without.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Because the truth is, as committed as I am to clearing my energy and only focusing on the good, positive things that I want, life is still life.It's still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Either way, we'll ride out together. That's how it is with soul mates. Thats just what they do.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need--to extinguish the dark flame inside me.
A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day.
A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Love is a gift. Passion is a curse”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Damen’s the one who loves more. He’d do anything for you. You’re just along for the ride.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“beast may be alive and well, but my heart and soul are now leading.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“That’s what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it’s eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“As above, so below, as within, so without”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dark Flame
“Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation from him that has done it: and any other person, who finds it just, may also join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as may make satisfaction for the harm he has suffered.”
― John Locke, quote from Second Treatise of Government
“We trust death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pain of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trust death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway fro life to life.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, quote from A Journey of the Heart
“Tell me where you’re taking me.” “I take you nowhere, Princess,” he called back. “It’s you who follows me.”
― Janet Lee Carey, quote from Dragon's Keep
“Some girls are pretty, and it's like they were destined for it. They were meant to be pretty, and as for the rest of us, well, we get to exist on the outer edges of life. It's like moths. They're the same as butterflies, aren't they? They're just grey. They can't help being grey, they just are. But butterflies, they're a million different colours, yellow and emerald and cerulean blue. They're pretty. Who'd dare kill a butterfly? I don't know of a single soul who'd life a finger against a butterfly. But most anybody would swat at a moth like it was nothing, and all because it isn't pretty. Doesn't seem fair, not at all.”
― Jenny Han, quote from Shug
“And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.”
― Donato Carrisi, quote from The Whisperer
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