Arti Manani Biography & Quotes

“When you're done with being used, you become desperate to fight back and it doesn't matter how far you go, as long as you go. It's like a bomb that's ticking inside you and the longer you keep it in, the louder the explosion and the greater the damage.”

Used Strength Self Worth Fight Fight Back Explosion

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“A beast does not have to be big. He does not need fangs nor fur. He does not need horns nor does he need to howl in the night. He has two eyes, a nose and a mouth. He walks on two legs and he looks just like me.”

Evil Dark Beast

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“I focused so much on my conscious mind that I forgot about the one beneath it, the one that wanted to talk but could only whisper. I'd suffocate those whispers and I'd feed the silence, but it was still there, hidden but not discreet as it pierced my insides with the sharpness of its thorns, growing inside me within the darkness of my soul. I continued to pretend it wasn't there, that I was okay. Because everyone else's opinions, although they shouldn't matter, they did. They did and it made all the fucking difference.”

Voice Silence Depression Mental Health Opinions Voiceless Judgmental People

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“But I know now that a smile does not mean that a person is happy, and I guess not everybody looks sad when they are depressed.”

Sad Depression Smile Happy Depressed

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“And don't worry about it, Kai, whatever it is. Although it's the longest thing you'll ever experience, it's also very short. Don't waste your life on worries, okay?' He walked further away from the counter taking the shrilling sound of his voice with him whilst leaving behind the best advice I have ever ignored.”

Life Stress Worrying Life Advice Advice For Daily Living

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“The voices inside her head had awakened from their peace as they hissed in whisper through her ears. They slithered inside Sophia's mind and through her thoughts, entrancing her under a spell of anxiety, spilling all of her worries that she had stored away.”

Feelings Anxiety Thoughts Emotions Mental Health Snakes Paranoia Nervousness Voices Inside Your Head

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

“She held her breath, a desperate attempt to slow down her heartbeat, a desperate attempt to get away. One second. Two seconds. Three. Four. Five, Six. Seven seconds. Suicide. She crashed into the door frame, gasping for air. She'd given herself away and now he knew she was there, alone, afraid, standing there on the other side of the wall. She'd given herself away.”

Anxiety Scared Breathing Desperate Hiding Anxious Running Away Escape Getaway

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

“He was watching her and she knew it. She couldn't see him, she couldn't hear him, but he was there. She could feel him.”

Anxiety Paranoia Watching Stalker Followed Being Watched

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

“There was something unnerving about her surroundings. She was unsure, not knowing whether this was her paranoia kicking in, or a warning. How could you tell?”

Environment Anxiety Mental Health Confusion Atmosphere Uncomfortable Disturbed Paranoia Uneasy

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

“When you don't have a voice, you can't stand up for yourself.”

Voice Victim Defeat Bullying Fight Voiceless Self Defence

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Talking. It's important and I wish I fucking did it.”

Voice Talking Self Help Depression Mental Health Problems Voiceless

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Her fierce and angry soul hides amongst the beauty of her light. She's deadly and contagious as she blazes from person to person burning all that she touches. She roams without a shadow and she doesn't want to be seen. She lives in the form on humanity and it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell who is infected with her evil and who is not. Fire, it's a dangerous thing.”

Humanity Evil Darkness Fire Danger Devil Woman Flames Shadows

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“We are all flames waiting to be fed”

Evil Darkness Fire Devil Flames

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“What do you do to stop a fire from burning? You kill it.”

Darkness Fire Burning Bad Kill Destroy

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Does it make me a bad person? Or does it make me human? Maybe I'm just a monster.”

Evil Darkness Human Monster Dark Thoughts Bad Person

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Yet here I am now, wondering where I messed up. Wondering when I became a bad person. A sudden thought creeps into my head and I wonder, maybe I've always been this way.”

Darkness Bad Criminal Bad Person Doing Wrong

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“A mirror doesn't give a man a true reflection of who he is. It doesn't show him what's on the inside. It doesn't show him the things he covers up with a smile whilst standing in front of it, telling himself he's okay. Death will. His true form will stand before him, stretched out forming the thickest, darkest truths he's ever seen. I don't want to be there when I die. Death. Although it comes once, it lasts forever.”

Truth Death Darkness Mental Health Not Okay

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Death. Although it comes once, it lasts forever.”

Death Dark Darkness

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“She flew past me, exiting the house as if she didn't smell the scent of a dead man lingering over me, as if she didn't hear the screams that were trying to flee from my gut, as if she didn't see the blood that painted my hands.”

Death Darkness Blood Murder Denial Dead

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Not everybody looks sad when they are depressed.”

Darkness Sadness Depression Fake Smiles

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Do I stand alone in the darkness, or do I rise in the shadows? The choice is mine, but what they fail to tell me, is that it doesn't make a difference. Either way, I am destined for destruction.”

Choices Destiny Darkness Destruction Shadows

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“We were always meant to live in darkness, even with the light. Five billion years from now the sun will stop shining and the darkness will win. It's supposed to win. It's inevitable. Darkness will come and the world will become a cold and sinister place to live in, if it isn't already.”

Light Darkness Good Vs Evil Good Vs Bad Light Vs Dark

Author:Arti Manani

“Am I a flame? I wonder, but I already know. I got too close and now I'm one of them. An angry flame that has spread like a bushfire turning everything in my path to ashes. That's what we'll all be soon. Nothing but ashes. Nothing but dust.”

Death Evil Darkness Fire Anger Angry Dust Ashes Flame

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“I don't want to be there when I die.”

Death Darkness Dying

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Maybe I'm just tired.”

Darkness Sad Depression Lonely Tired Alone Tiredness Dark Thoughts

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“She lay there, pale and pasty with a layer of grey smothered over her skin. Her head was slumped against the drawer like a dead flower as her arms hung limp on her sides. Her cheeks had been stained with tears and I wondered whether she really wanted to die.”

Death Loss Darkness Suicide Dead Woman

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Like an animal, I adapted to the world around me until it became my norm. This is me now. I'm a killer...”

World Evil Change Darkness Killer Adapt

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“If there was anything darker than black, it was me.”

Evil Darkness

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Humans, we survive differently. We numb those empty feelings, we revert to anger and hatred. We block out remorse because we no longer want to care. It's an escape of some sort, to hide the long periods of trying to deal with the bouts of bullshit in the right way. We betray ourselves, we lose our values, and worse, we forget who we are.”

Feelings Pain Darkness Survival Anger Remorse Escape

Book:Seven Sins

Source: Seven Sins

“Her dark thoughts spilled like a large coffee overflowing in an espresso cup. The coffee was bitter and strong, full of caffeine. It was a drug she didn't like, an addiction of darkness that was embedded inside her. It was a coffee being served without a smile, and one that she didn't want to drink.”

Darkness Addiction Coffee Bitter Caffeine Dark Thoughts Forced

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

“Sophia recognised the innocence of his intentions no matter how many times they made her bleed. She'd fallen for him, blinded by the light that he'd shone in her eyes. Blinded by the warm sensation of love inside her that was stronger than any other feeling. Stronger than the times when he would pierce her soul with insecurities and paranoia, when he would lock her in the dark and make her feel like she was unworthy. Unworthy of light, unworthy of him.”

Love Light Darkness Anxiety Thoughts Narcissism Insecure Paranoia

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

“They'd lay there and watch the magical show in the sky as it transformed from one colour to the next, before fading into darkness in a matter of moments. The sun had a split personality of its own.”

Darkness Sky Anger Sunset Narcissism Split Personality

Book:The Colours of Denial

Source: The Colours of Denial

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