Elizabeth Haynes · 410 pages
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“This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think.
Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway?”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“That before-and-after-feel, as though this was going to be the end of one time and the beginning of another.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“But a lot of water has passed under a lot of bridges now, and I don´t know if that is something I could do.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“The strangest thing was that I felt it, I felt everything. Normally I feel nothing but itching, discomfort, tightness, soreness. The surface of my skin is dulled by scars, lots of it is numb -- nerve damage, apparently. When he touched me, I felt everything. It was like having new skin.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“You think you know now, don't you? But you have no idea what it was like.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“I might not have behaved the way I did. I might not have gotten drunk every night, slept around, done drugs, woken up in strange houses wondering where I was and what I’d done the night before.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can´t think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“I raised my wine glass to him and sipped a toast to the future, to what lay ahead.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“I lay back down, fitting myself into the curve of his body, pulling his arms around me, protecting me, keeping me sage.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can’t think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“He would let himself in whenever he felt like it, come and go as he pleased. I remembered when this was such a big deal for me, not so long ago. I’d wanted my own space, my front door that I could lock behind me and know for sure that nobody was going to be inside there without me. I remembered telling him that I wanted that space back. I remembered asking him for the key, and him walking away from me. I remembered him simply walking away and leaving, without so much as an argument.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“ MR LEWIS Mr Brightman, would you have”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“On the Thursday I called an emergency locksmith and had the locks changed on the front door and the back door.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
“Then for some reason I’ve not done it properly one day, and that’s no good at all, because if you’re going to do something that’s for your own benefit, you’ve got to do it properly or there’s no point.”
― Elizabeth Haynes, quote from Into the Darkest Corner
Elizabeth Haynes
Born place: The United Kingdom
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“That’s the problem with all of this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t make it perfect. I can’t keep it in a bottle, can’t ignore reality. Chemicals are involved, the kind scientists try
to synthesize and put into pill form, and they’re making tremendous advances every day. They’re winning the war against love. It’s probably inevitable now. There are only two ways to see the world: either no one and nothing is connected to anything, or we are all
a random series of carbon molecules connected to each other. Tell me if there’s room for love in either of those scenarios.”
― Pete Wentz, quote from Gray
“But," say you, "what will become of me if . . . ?" This is indeed a temptation of the enemy. Why should you be so ingenious in tormenting yourself beforehand about something which perhaps will never happen? Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. Uneasy forebodings do us much harm; why do you so readily give way to them? We make our own troubles, and what do we gain by it? but lose, instead, so much both for time and eternity. When we are obsessed in spite of ourselves by these worrying revisions let us be faithful in making a continual sacrifice of them to the sovereign Master. I conjure you to do this, as in this way you will induce God to deal favourably with you and to help you in every way. You will acquire a treasure of virtue and merit for Heaven, and a submission and abandonment which will enable you to make more progress in the ways of God than any other practice of piety. It is, possibly, with this view that God permits all these troublesome and trying imaginations. Profit by them then, and God will bless you. By your submission to His good pleasure you will make greater progress than you could by hearing beautiful sermons, or reading pious books.”
― quote from Abandonment to Divine Providence: The Classic Text with a Spiritual Commentary
“She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, quote from White is for Witching
“Susie . . . ” With his hands on her face, he found her eyes. “If you make love with me and then go back to him, you’ll ruin me".”
― Marie Force, quote from Line of Scrimmage
“Relax,” he whispered. “You’re as stiff as a board.” No, I thought, you’re as stiff as a board. Which was true, I could feel that against my legs.”
― Karina Halle, quote from Dead Sky Morning
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