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Death Dying Shadows Fading

Book:The Shattered Veil

Source: The Shattered Veil

“We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.”

Death Dying Obliviousness

Book:The Shattered Veil

Source: The Shattered Veil

“Keep the people uneducated and underfed and they'll lavish praise on you for your generosity when you give them a scrap of bread and a pat on the head. Give them more than the minimum and you might find they're better at your job than you are, because their skills are revealed when they can focus on more than survival.”

Poverty Survival Oppression Oppressor

Book:Faelost

Source: Faelost

“I’m not going to tell you to wear a mask to hide your sadness just because my own mask is on the edge of shattering.”

Sadness Depression Mask Masked

Book:Emberstorm

Source: Emberstorm

“The lies are as effortless as the truth, and I am no longer certain which are which. It is so easy to lose myself in the twisted boughs and broken groves of my labyrinth mind. There is too much nonsense, too many seeds floating into the desert, drifting languidly on a too-warm wind, too many tides waiting for a moon that long ago escaped from orbit and hurled itself into the sun.”

Truth Lies Lost And Confused Lost In Thoughts

Book:Sand into Glass

Source: Sand into Glass

“Truth might hurt more at first, but lies hurt forever.”

Truth Lies

Book:Spellkeeper

Source: Spellkeeper

“The two most common lies in our world are 'I'm fine' and 'You'll be okay'. They are said without harmful intent, and often said in an attempt to placate worries, but still they tell us it is not our place to make another person uncomfortable or to draw too much attention to ourselves. Over and over, we mindlessly repeat variations of the same two phrases as we hide within our lies and attempt to spare others from the miserable truth. I'm fine. I'm okay. You're fine. You'll be okay. Everything will be all right. We become our lies, but only on the surface. Underneath, we are not fine and they will not be okay. We all know this but we're afraid to speak it.”

Lying Lies Discomfort Lies We Tell Ourselves Hiding Feelings White Lies

Book:Faelost

Source: Faelost

“History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.”

History Lies Deception

Book:Mayfly Requiem

Source: Mayfly Requiem

“Don't let the silence eat you alive when your mind tries to tell you your voice isn't worth hearing.”

Silence Depression Anxiety Intrusive Thoughts

Book:Faelost

Source: Faelost

“Art is creation outshining destruction.”

Art Creativity Destruction Visual Art Power Of Art

Author:Courtney M. Privett

“The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.”

Strength Regret Letters Regrets

Book:Mayfly Requiem

Source: Mayfly Requiem

“We cry from pain, from loss, and from loneliness, but mostly we cry because we still have hope, and because we can still find joy even on the darkest and coldest of winter nights.”

Joy Hope Grief Winter Crying Hope And Despair

Book:Rain Falls on Malora

Source: Rain Falls on Malora

“We can find scraps of magic anywhere we look, tiny threads and fabric patches and buttons without matches. Allow a circle of space for that quiet magic to find you. That is your center, your home. Return to it when you need it. Find it again, name it your hearth, and wherever you are you’ll be home.”

Home Magic Hearth Cottage Witch

Book:Dustlight

Source: Dustlight

“Your heartbeat is safe and familiar and all things home. It's the dance of dust on top of the kitchen cupboards, the wind through the rosemary, the brittle flutter of textbook pages, the embrace of a memory until now forgotten.”

Home Family Heartbeat Familiarity

Book:Faelost

Source: Faelost

“Sometimes things that are necessary also cause us pain.”

Pain Inner Strength

Book:Arrow of Entropy

Source: Arrow of Entropy

“What is life without loss, love without loneliness, ecstasy without pain? You can't have one without the other or you could never appreciate either.”

Love Life Loss Loneliness Duality

Book:The Crystal Lattice

Source: The Crystal Lattice

“The only monsters in this world are men and myths.”

Men Monsters Myths

Book:Huron

Source: Huron

“We were born of stars and in death we will return to them. Let's not strive to be black holes in the meantime. Let's illuminate the world instead of darkening it, instead of tearing it to pieces. Let's prove we are worthy of being stardust.”

Death Stars Destruction Illumination Stardust Black Holes

Book:Arrow of Entropy

Source: Arrow of Entropy

“The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.”

Death Torture Death Of A Loved One Malice

Book:Shadows of Absolution

Source: Shadows of Absolution

“I don’t know why she never believes me when I call her beautiful. Maybe for the same reason I never believe her when she calls me the same. We’re so used to being outside the normal that it’s difficult to see ourselves as anything other than bitterly-remembered insults. It may take a lifetime of calling each other beautiful before we acknowledge that we truly are.”

Beautiful Beauty Insecurity

Book:Emberstorm

Source: Emberstorm

“We reinvent our childhoods in deep colors, but are forced to face reality the moment we open our eyes.”

Reality Nostalgia Lost Innocence

Book:Mayfly Requiem

Source: Mayfly Requiem

“Sometimes we find we love things we never thought we wanted. And then we regret that we never wanted them at all. It's the fear of change, I think, and dread of the unknown.”

Love Regret Fear Of The Unknown Fear Of Change Unexpected Love

Book:Spellkeeper

Source: Spellkeeper

“Sometimes crying is the only tool we have left. Sometimes it helps us begin to heal.”

Healing Crying

Book:Arrow of Entropy

Source: Arrow of Entropy

“Sometimes we try to do the right thing and instead the world laughs as it crushes our hopeful dreams.”

Failure Good Intentions Do The Right Thing Crushed Dreams

Book:Spellkeeper

Source: Spellkeeper

“Sometimes simple words can rock your psyche and leave you struggling to find worth in your own life. When those words come from your parents, the scars are deeper and uglier.”

Low Self Esteem Internal Conflict Verbal Abuse Internalizing Low Self Worth

Book:Sand into Glass

Source: Sand into Glass

“I miss the floral scent of her hair, the perfume that barely masked the underlying truth of what she was. She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn. And lilac. When she held me to her, lilac was what I smelled first.”

Love Time Sand Scent Libraries Lost Time Lilac Clocks Smell Of Rain

Book:Rain Falls on Malora

Source: Rain Falls on Malora

“Our lives were a complex tapestry, and our woven strands were only meant to intersect at a small number of points in the time-conceived whole. An embroidered starburst, a missed warp, a complicated notion on the loom of time. We were always together, but meant to live our majorities apart, two golden threads wandering through a haunted textile life.”

Companionship Tapestry Weaving Intersections Tapestry Of Life Threads Loom

Book:Mayfly Requiem

Source: Mayfly Requiem

“She was lost time. She smelled of dusty libraries and unwound clocks, salted sand and rain riding on the first rays of dawn.”

Time Libraries Lost Time Clocks Smell Of Rain Scent Of Books

Book:Rain Falls on Malora

Source: Rain Falls on Malora

“Sometimes trying isn’t enough. But we have to try, or we become indistinguishable from the beast we’re fighting.”

Hopeless Situation Fighting For A Cause

Book:Dustlight

Source: Dustlight

“In dreams we become timeless. We can stretch one breath to the infinite, nestle deep into that single heartbeat, and create something wondrously impossible. We can shape our worlds and live our lives to their fullest. As many lives as we want, and in any direction. But we don’t know at what point that breath, that heartbeat, will reclaim us and transform everything we built into forgotten dust. Not even a full memory, only a ghost of a dream, replaced by the incessant light demanding that our bodies adhere to its own cruel schedule.”

Dreams Timeless Lucid Dreaming Timelessness Lucid Dreams Impossible Dreams

Book:Dustlight

Source: Dustlight

“I think I dreamed of you once. You were the sunset glinting off the calm ocean waves and the moon reflecting in double, like silver eyes within the mirrored heart of a star-dusted sky. You were the warm salted breeze whispering sweet words between each kiss landed beneath my ear and each caress of the surf upon my skin. I woke from the dream to find you’d followed me into my waking world.”

Love Dreams Dreams Come True Dreams Coming True

Book:Dustlight

Source: Dustlight

“What do you live for when everyone and everything you love is gone? Do you keep going, keep stumbling through the dark, or do you find something new to cherish? Maybe neither. Maybe you walk silently and ignore the blows time takes on your heart.”

Love Time Loss Darkness Resilience Love And Loss

Book:Mayfly Requiem

Source: Mayfly Requiem

“Hate feeds on your heart and pollutes your mind. It makes you lose sight of reality and forces you to focus on animosity instead of love. Hate makes you less of a person, because the borders of hate are so expansive they leave no room for anything else, and then the rest of your world becomes tiny and insignificant in comparison.”

Hate Hatred

Book:The Crystal Lattice

Source: The Crystal Lattice

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