Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2026 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?”

— Krystal Sutherland

2. “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.”

— Krystal Sutherland

3. “They kept looking behind them, as though they were being pursued. What did they expect, dressed like that?”

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4. “But that’s how it should be with feelings. People should be forward.”

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5. “What if we were the monsters?”

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6. “Your life would be happier if you didn’t know.” “Knowledge is power.” “And ignorance is bliss.”

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7. “How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?”

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8. “The one who painted the brightness of the galaxy to hide the darkness that lived inside him.”

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9. “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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10. “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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11. “El conocimiento es poder. Y la ignorancia, dicha.”

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

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

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14. “Something about the crisp, cool air, the twinkling carnival lights, and the scent of deep-fried food provided the perfect atmosphere for reckless teenage abandon.”

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

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16. “Love was a trap, a sticky trap of molasses meant to bind two people together. It was a thing that couldn’t be escaped, a weight that people strapped to their own legs before they waded into the water and wondered why they drowned.”

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17. “It’s better to live in fear than to not live at all.”

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

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19. “We’re all just chemical hearts. Does that make love any less brilliant? I don’t think so.”

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20. “It was you who taught me that oblivion is our reward for being human, that the very fabric of reality itself is kind enough to ensure that all our sins and silliness will be stripped away.”

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21. “Fears can’t become full-blown phobias if you avoid them, and phobias can’t kill you if you don’t have them.”

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22. “If I don’t know who I am, how is anyone else ever supposed to?”

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

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24. “I hate to say this, but if you’re reading this, I might already be dead.”

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

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27. “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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28. “During psychosis, the mind finds it extremely difficult to separate what is real and what is not. Hallucinations and delusions are common. It could explain why she’s been off the grid for a week.”

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29. “Both of my sisters were the great loves of my life. I couldn’t live without them. I didn’t want to.”

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30. “Scars are not reminder of what’s been broken but rather what’s been created.”

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

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32. “Sometimes it was better to not get what you wanted. Sometimes it was better to leave beautiful things alone for fear of breaking them.”

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

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34. “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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35. “Grace Town was a chemical explosion inside my heart. She was a star that’d gone supernova. For a few fleeting moments there was light and heat and pain, brighter than a galaxy, and in her wake she left nothing but darkness. But the death of stars provides the building blocks of life. We’re all made of star stuff. We’re all made of Grace Town.”

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

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

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

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40. “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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41. “I saw him today too. Twice. He was at my school. Tall shirtless dude cosplaying a decomposing demon Minotaur.”

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42. “We knew all too well what could happen to girls on poorly lit streets at night, because it had happened to us. Then again, all girls knew that.”

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43. “Doctors diagnosed us with everything from PTSD to ADHD. We collected an alphabet of acronyms, but no treatment or therapy ever seemed to be able to reset us to how we’d been before it happened. We weren’t ill, it was decided: We were just strange.”

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44. “People change. There’s no way you’re the same person you were when you were sixteen.”

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

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46. “I am the thing in the dark.”

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47. “I think you can love people and still disapprove of stuff they do.”

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48. “I kinda like the idea” she said, “That when we die, despite any pain or fear or embarrassment we experience during our lives, despite any heartbreak or grief, we get to be dispersed back into nothingness. It makes me feel brave, knowing that I’ll get a blank slate at the end. You get a brief glimmer of consciousness... I can appreciate that that’s redemption, on the grandest scale. Oblivion isn’t scary; it’s the closest thing to genuine absolution of sin that I can imagine.”

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49. “Death is not cruel, but it is insistent.”

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50. “No one who has a good relationship with their parents ever becomes a model. Even if they’re as ridiculously good-looking as me.”

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