“I’m doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I’m drowning more and more each day.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“I would plunge to the bottom of the ocean for you. I’d comb it for shells and make you a necklace and then hang myself with it. Because if you aren’t here, I don’t want to be either.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Words can harm people every bit as much as a weapon.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Insomniacs know that there is something about the night. A darkness, an energy, a mystery that shrouds things. It hides things at the same time as it illuminates them. It is this thing that allows us to examine our thoughts in a way that we can't during the day. It is this thing that brings truth and clarity.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“I wrote this story the way it needed to be written. I couldn’t sugarcoat it. I couldn’t water it down. It is this way because the story demands it. I’m not sorry.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“because sometimes that’s how life is. A puzzle made up of a million pieces, and when one piece doesn’t exactly fit, it throws the rest of them off.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“There is nothing quite so terrifying as the descension of the human mind into insanity.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people. Besides, if anyone needs a grief group, it’s him.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“What is it about that one motion, that one tiny thing, that always sticks in my head? It’s so stupid. Such a silly thing to focus on.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“The only thing worse than drowning in grief is sharing a lifeboat with other drowning people.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“By night, I am free.
No one hears my monsters but me.
My freedom is fragile, though,
Because every morning,
Over and over,
The night is broken by the sun.
It’s a good way to die.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“As we walk, I know without looking where Dare is. It’s like I’m a planet and he’s my axis… or my sun. I feel his heat, I feel his presence, and I ache to lean into it, to fold into him, to absorb his strength.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Death is big,” Dare acknowledges. “But there are things bigger than that. If there’s not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“But just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it’s not there.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“My other half-- my twin brother, my Finn-- is crazy. I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I’m terrified he’ll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Good night, sweet Finn. Good night, good night.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“And we can’t begin something beautiful when there is still so much ugliness around us.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“fake it ‘til you make it. If you don’t feel good, pretend you do because eventually you will. It hasn’t worked yet, but I’m still holding out hope.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Serva me, servabo te. Save me and I will save you.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“dying is like a ship that sails away for another destination.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“He kisses me with abandon, like he’s not afraid of the consequences, like it’s only him and me, and there’s nothing else around us.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“It’s like I’m a planet and he’s my axis… or my sun.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“We all have little tricks we play on our minds to make life bearable.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“What would you shave off for me if I died?” I would plunge to the bottom of the ocean for you. I’d comb it for shells and make you a necklace and then hang myself with it. Because if you aren’t here, I don’t want to be either.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Because traditions are soothing when everything else goes to hell.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Maybe because your mom just died in a car crash?”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Death is big,” Dare acknowledges. “But there are things bigger than that. If there’s not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“kismet always prevails and I’m someone he might like to know.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“He deserves to be a focus.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
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“Then, having thus made the Creator responsible for all those pains and diseases and miseries above enumerated, and which he could have prevented, the gifted Christian blandly calls him Our Father!
It is as I tell you. He equips the Creator with every trait that goes to the making of a fiend, and then arrives at the conclusion that a fiend and a father are the same thing! Yet he would deny that a malevolent lunatic and a Sunday school superintendent are essentially the same.”
― Mark Twain, quote from Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
“I think of Krishna and his deep blue eyes. It is said, in the hidden scriptures in India, that to focus on the eyes of the Lord is the highest spiritual practice a human being can proform. It's suppose to be equal to the greatest act of charity, which Jesus describes in the Bible as sacrificing one's life to save the life of another.
The Vedas, the Bible, it's true, they overlap a lot.
Maybe gazing into Krishna's eyes...
Pain...Pain...Pain...
Is equal to Christ's sacrifice.
I'm only suffering this pain to protect John. It doesn't matter that he won't see me. I still love him, I will always love him. And in this exquisitely agonizing moment, I realize he refused to see me because he wanted to force me to see him inside. Ah, that's the key! This practice of visualizing that I'm staring into Krishna's blue eyes, I've done it before.
But this is the first time I see him staring back at me!
The Agony comes, and it does not get transformed into bliss.
If anything it is worse than before. Except for one thing.
The pain does not obliterate my sense of "I."
I'm still Sita, the last vampire.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 3: The Eternal Dawn
“Don't worry too much about him, Meghan. Robin Goodfellow has always been extra-ordinarily difficult to kill."
-Ash”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from Winter's Passage
“Go in peace," I said to him; "bear no ill-will to me, for Necessity yields to no man: and do not complain of me to our mother, for her blood is on your head as well as mine.
If the gods had not forbidden it, my brother, I would put you to sleep before I left you, for night comes on; this is an empty place, and the clouds look dark upon the mountains.
But the blood of kindred is not to be washed away; and when a man has once felt the breath of the Honoured Ones upon his neck, he will not bid them across the threshold. So forgive me, and suffer what must be. The clouds are heavy; if the gods love you, before morning there will be snow.”
― Mary Renault, quote from The Last of the Wine
“It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from A Handful of Dust
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