Courtney M. Privett Quotes

#1. 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.

Courtney M. Privett

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

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#3. There are no stars, no moon, only knots, only the promise of death. Drums cry out in the abyss and then fade with everything else. Even the shadows fade and all that is left is death. We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.

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#4. We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

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#7. Lies are convenient when the truth is unfathomable.

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#8. Forests should not be walked on, they should be walked under and through.

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#9. I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home.

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#10. Only the dead remember the truth.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom.

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#13. There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.

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#14. We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.

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#15. I focus on the light I can find, and if I can't find it, I create it.

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#16. What is love if not the gravity of souls?

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#17. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

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#18. What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

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