Top 180 Krystal Sutherland Quotes (2025 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. “Scars are not reminder of what’s been broken but rather what’s been created.”

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “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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6. “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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7. “A Kintsukuroi relationship, more beautiful for having been broken.”

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

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

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10. “You can tell a lot about a person from their bedroom, don’t you think? Bedrooms are like crime scenes – so many clues to be uncovered.”

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

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13. “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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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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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17. “El conocimiento es poder. Y la ignorancia, dicha.”

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18. “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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19. “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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20. “But what do you give a girl whose wind is like the universe, when the brain inside your own head is stuck firmly on planet Earth?”

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

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23. “The greatest love story ever told doesn’t have to be about two people who spent their whole lives together. It might be about a love that lasted two weeks or two months or two years, but burned brighter and hotter and more brilliantly than any other love before or after. Don’t mourn a failed love; there’s no such thing. All love is equal in the brain.”

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

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

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

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

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30. “Of course I remember. I remember everything. You just wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

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31. “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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32. “How to kill a Minotaur? We’re humans, right? We’re, like, the dominant species for a reason. We’re terrifying. We have guns. We should easily be able to kill an upright cow.”

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

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

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36. “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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37. “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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38. “If something was once true but not wasn’t, was it ever true?”

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39. “I wanted to see how you’d react. If I forced myself to be her for a night. Kintsukuroi Grace, all stitched up with gold seams. You’ve never looked at me like that before, when you saw me through the crowd. I think you have feelings for someone who doesn’t exist.”

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40. “She was of average height and average build and average attractiveness, all things that should’ve made it easy for her to assimilate into a new high school without any of the dramatic tropes that usually inhabit such storylines.”

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

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

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

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44. “What would Vivi and I be without her? Would we drift apart in the cavernous space Grey left behind, rogue planets spun out into the abyss?”

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “I’m a girl made of bread crumbs, lost alone in the woods.”

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48. “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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49. “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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50. “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.”

— Krystal Sutherland