Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Was love enough? If a person could offer you nothing but broken promises and disappointment, was love enough to make up for that?”

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2. “A Kintsukuroi relationship, more beautiful for having been broken.”

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3. “She couldn’t stop herself from thinking that love was a pitcher plant. Sweet with nectar on the outside, but once you caught the scent and took the plunge, it ate you whole. Soul and all.”

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4. “It’s the end of the Earth and the death of the universe that give me the insane courage to say that I am yours, if you want me.”

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5. “Don’t you find it strange that whenever anyone asks you to describe yourself, you draw a blank? It should be the easiest thing in the world to talk about – I mean, you are you – but it isn’t.”

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6. “Grace was my drug of choice, and tonight the dealer was giving out hits for free. I’d stay until I overdosed.”

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7. “That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”

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8. “Once you love someone, no matter who they are, you’ll always let them destroy you. Every single time. Even the very best people found ways to hurt the ones they loved.”

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9. “My sisters. My blood. My skin. What a gruesome bond we shared.”

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10. “What you don’t understand is that I am the thing in the dark.”

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11. “Esther changed into a costume of Wednesday Addams, and then they went, the three strangest teenagers in town: a ghost who couldn’t speak, a boy who hated the dark, and a girl who dressed as someone else everywhere she went.”

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12. “Well, it is a crypt. In the philosophical sense. All old buildings become crypts the moment they’re finished. A shrine to a time that’s already dead.”

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13. “Love doesn’t need to last a lifetime for it to be real. You can’t judge the quality of a love by the length of time it lasts.”

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14. “She slammed through the world, a tornado in the form of a girl, and left a trail of destruction behind her. That’s what she’d been like at seventeen, anyway. Maybe becoming a supermodel and fashion designer had changed that, but it seemed as impossible as switching out the bones of your skeleton.”

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15. “Extreme beauty meant danger. Extreme beauty meant death.”

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16. “For the first time, I felt the power of what I was coursing through my veins and I wasn’t scared. It made me feel... alive.”

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17. “But life was rarely full of clean and tidy resolutions. Good moments would inevitably, again, lead to bad moments, which would lead to more good moments, until there was nothing left but dust and stories. But that moment, right there, with him, that night – that was a damn good moment, and the good moments had to be remembered.”

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18. “Grace Town is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

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19. “Dat is het probleem met liefde. Als je eenmaal van mensen houdt, ongeacht wie ze zijn, kunnen ze je steeds weer verdriet doen.”

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20. “Stories with happy endings are stories that haven’t been finished yet.”

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21. “In the four years since she’d left home, my eldest sister had grown into a gossamer slip of a woman with hair like spun sugar and a face out of Greek mythology. Even in still pictures there was something vaporous and hyaline about her, like she might ascend into the ether at any moment. It was perhaps why journalists were forever describing her as ethereal, though I’d always thought of Grey as more earthy. No articles ever mentioned that she felt most at home in the woods.”

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22. “I wish I could be this eloquent when we talk, but I’m a writer at heart. I’m wasted on the spoken word, but there’s a small piece of my soul in this letter.”

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23. “Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every time he reminded her that he couldn’t be saved, Esther’s heart broke a little more.”

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24. “That’s a pretty heavy burden to bear, being everything for someone.”

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25. “Grey was a tornado in the form of a girl. She took what she wanted and left a trail of destruction in her wake, and I had always admired her for it. It took guts to be a girl in this world and live like that.”

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26. “I can’t pretend to be all better because that’s what you want.”

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27. “Death is the reward for having lived.”

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28. “The goddess of crustaceans, our lady of hard exoskeletons.”

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29. “All old building become crypts the moment they’re finished, A shrine to a time that’s already dead.”

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30. “She would bewitch everyone to make her lie the truth.”

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31. “Look up at that, Henry. Look up at that, honestly, and tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances. A cloud of dust and gas forms our planet, a chemical reaction creates life, and then all of our cavemen ancestors live just long enough to bone each other before they die awful deaths. The universe is not the magical place people like to paint it as. It’s excruciatingly beautiful, but there’s no magic there, just science.”

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32. “We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.”

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33. “Point is, you gotta be scared. Fear protects you. You gotta be scared right down to your bones” – he touched his fingertips to her collarbone – “for bravery to mean anything.”

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34. “What else was there to do? They were teenagers, and they were powerless, and until they were adults they had no choice but to let their destinies be bent and swayed by outside forces.”

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35. “I’d realized there were scarier things in the world than the monsters that lived in my nightmares.”

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36. “Of course it’s not going to be easy. You’re fighting a war against yourself. Every time either side makes ground, you’re the one who gets hurt. But it’s not about winning the war against your demons. It’s about calling a truce and learning how to live with them peacefully. Promise me you’ll keep fighting. -Esther.”

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37. “The old fear was there, the grapnel anchor lodged in her chest, the thing that wanted to pull her back away from the edge and whisper no, no, no. Yet there was a new thing: a lure. Something down in the water thatwhispered yes, yes, yes. Go forward, onward, into the unknown. It felt like something between destruction and thrill.”

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38. “I don’t hate her for what she’s become. I want to, but I can’t. I love her too much. That’s the problem. That’s what’s wrong with love. Once you love someone, no matter who they are, you’ll always let them destroy you. Every single time.”

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39. “I’m a girl made of bread crumbs, lost alone in the woods.”

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40. “Some people go missing because they want to; some go missing because they’re taken. And then there are the others – those who go missing because they fall through a gap somewhere and can’t claw their way back.”

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41. “That’s the problem. That’s what’s wrong with love. Once you love someone, no matter who they are, you’ll always let them destroy you. Every single time.”

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42. “Just because a love ends doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.”

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43. “Because it seems like a lot of hassle, liking someone. Your brain runs hot, the cogs inside your mind jarring together until all the oil of your thoughts is burned away. The fire spreads to your chest, where it chars your lungs and turns your heart to embers. And right when you think the flames have burned away everything but your skeleton, the spark skips from your bones to immolate not only your flesh, but your entire life.”

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44. “There are things in every family that are not talked about. Stories you know without really knowing how you know them, tales of terrible things that cast long shadows over generations. Adelaide Fairlight’s three stillborn babies was one of those stories.”

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45. “Dark, dangerous things happened around the Hollow sisters.”

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46. “Nothing in her life had ever been neat or ordered. She slammed through the world, a tornado in the form of a girl, and left a trail of destruction behind her.”

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47. “Like HIV, depression was a king at playing hide-and-seek. It concealed itself in reservoirs deep inside the mind, waiting for the walls you built around it to eventually erode. Depression could be at undetectable levels for months or years. You’d be all happy and stable and think you were cured, you were a survivor, and then BAM, out of nowhere it resurged.”

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48. “What do you do when someone you love is missing? When all the looking you can do is done, what do you do in the long hours that linger ahead of you, heavy with absence and worry?”

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49. “What if we were the monsters?”

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50. “Bedrooms are like crime scenes. So many clues to be uncovered.”

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