Dawn Kurtagich Quotes

Dark waters run deep.

And here I sit, writing about him as though he's just a ghost from my past that still haunts me. And I guess that is all he is now. Just some guy I used to know.

There are places. Abandoned places. Forgotten places. These are the places I like to be.

I am a prisoner of my skin. My bones are my cage.

The words slipped out like a bubble, too fragile to resist the destruction of air. It was like a glass smashing against a wall.

I hate that I'm so easy to let go.

I've learned, in my tragic little life, that memories are like water. Not solid, like some people think. Once something happens, it isn't set it stone. It can change.

You can make yourself believe anything if you lie to yourself enough.

Your eyes will be brown, a color that holds secrets well.

They think I don't exist . . . they think I'm like a disease. I'm infecting Carly.

I slump against the banister. "I don't understand. I'm so tired."
Cath is fading away again, her last look one of pity. Sympathy. Understanding.
"The mad always are," she says.

One box, and it holds a whole life of love - almost every letter Carly and I have ever exchanged. Seeing it here, all together, three big bundles of paper...is that all we were? Dying pages, fading ink?

I don't say anything because he's got fire inside him for sure, and fire burns.

Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away.

We have no right to children if despair is all we bring with us.

Rage is pure, eloquent, and I can weave it into a tool. Sadness, loneliness, anguish - none of them require a partner.

Love? Love is a crack in my armour.

I'm sorry. I really do try not to get angry. Carly says anger is a weapon, but sometimes I think it's just another cage.

I'm not me,
And nor is she,
Who sits upon the bed?
But then who,
Is, is you,
Who seats here very dead?

Because, Dee, I'm the thing in the dark, just like the Viking used to tell me. I'm the creature coming up from the basement, the thing under the bed. I have nothing to feat in the dark. I am the dark.

I am afraid.