“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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“He stared into the fast-flowing waters and contemplated the tragedy of desire.”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Shalimar the Clown
“There is a flow to history and culture. This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. People are unique in the inner life of the mind -- what they are in their thought-world determines how they act. This is true of their value systems and it is true of their creativity. It is true of their corporate actions, such as political decisions, and it is true of their personal lives. The results of their thought-world flow through their fingers or from their tongues into the external world.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, quote from How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“She looked to be maybe fifteen, give or take a year or two; still somewhere in that nether realm between childhood and womanhood. Her hair, to judge by the few unsoiled strands he could see, was an earthy brown, and her eyes shone with a blue-green hue so liquid that he almost expected to see waves. A small, ever-so-slightly upturned nose sat in the center of a slender face.”
― quote from Thief's Covenant
“I would browse for half an hour or so in the secondhand bookstores in the neighborhood. Owning my own 'library' was my only materialistic ambition; in fact, trying to decide which two of these thousands of books to buy that week, I would frequently get so excited that by the time the purchase was accomplished I had to make use of the bookseller's toilet facilities. I don't believe that either microbe or laxative has ever affected me so strongly as the discovery that I was all at once the owner of a slightly soiled copy of Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity in the original English edition.”
― Philip Roth, quote from My Life as a Man
“On the last day of school we had a class party, with cupcakes and Island Punch. I drank eight cups of it. Island Punch is my favorite drink.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Superfudge
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