Emotional Depth Quotes

“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“Stepfather?" "It means he fucks your mum and isn't really your dad.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“L.G.B.T.Q.I.P.O.Z.A.A.C.V………….” ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“Imagine there’s no Sadness, it’s easy if you try…” whoever sings, John something.  “Nothing white inside us, around us only DIE… Imagine all the Shells, Loving everyday—“ ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“What’s your version of old-fashioned discipline?”
“A belt across the back! I felt the belt a few times growing up. Didn’t hurt the way I turned out.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“Oh shoot. That’s the kind of stuff that gets me in trouble. My Gram is right. I got a bad mouth.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

“He’s slipped up a little every now and then but after today, I imagine he’ll be spending a little extra time in church next Sunday.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

“She hurries out of the hammering rain into the puddled shelter of St Pancras. As arranged, he's waiting outside WH Smith, and her heart jerks like a bad dog on a lead.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

“During the film (long, miserable) he takes her hand and squeezes rhythmically as if he's milking a cow.  She's distracted by wondering if he has ever, in fact, milked a cow.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

“And Ethan? That boy lived in his own little wonderland, convinced he could save the world one organic radish at a time.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“Cut the malarkey, Joe. What do you know about Ethan Green stirring up trouble before he died?”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“Mae’s Diner mirrored Samantha’s memories precisely—a cheap haven of pink vinyl booths and black-and-white checkered floors, the mouthwatering aroma of fried chicken and apple pie permeating the air.”
― Stella Sinclaire, Fertile Ground for Murder

“You bear a luminous shadow or pluck some shards of light from the darkest dark. I shall raise a hidden expression or stir some silent storms to shape something out of nothing.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“I know those eyes.
I see them in the gloom of a storm. I see them in the blackness of the deepest parts of the ocean. I see them in the dark places of my mind, where only silence and surrender live.
I know Ravi's eyes better than my own.”
― Frances White, Voyage of the Damned

“The only thing you humans are bloody good for—Comedy.”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“For what could happen to her but that she should die, and she had already died so many times.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“I’m not easy or simple or entirely light. My sunshine dances the tango with my tornado by the light of a blood-red moon. I am daisy chains and cauldron fire. I am the space where shame is shed. I like my desire fast and hard and my sacred so holy you’ll swear for the rest of your life that your body turned cathedral under my hands.

If you come to me, come ready to be revealed. Offer me bare skin, not armor. Bring me the whole and holy of you and arrive ready for worship. I am a crystal-clear mirror. Beware, you will not leave me without bearing witness to your own beauty. I fear there’s a damn good chance you’re not ready for what happens next.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Colors are never as bright as they once were.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“The last thing you ever did was teach me how much loving can hurt.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“Her heart seems ready to collapse with the weight of loving him.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“Love is the enemy. [...] Love is the old slaughterer. Love is not blind. Love is a cannibal with extremely acute vision. Love is insectile; it is always hungry.”
― Stephen King, Christine

“We were so alive together.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

“Poetry is enough for a soul in pain.
Love would only heighten the senses and destroy the illusions of it.”
― Laura Chouette

“We are our own tragedies.
The people we love seemingly are only endings that we prefer before the curtain falls on its own accord.”
― Laura Chouette

“While we haunt ourselves, we become part of others.
With all our broken pieces, we are gathered in mosaics—
reflecting every careless smile, echoing every careless word.
We become them eventually,
in the way we live and survive each night.
Ghosts, bohemian wallpapers, and shiny crystal whiskey glasses,
used by them—hauntingly beautiful, collected, and far behind.
And after all this, nothing of ourselves remains.”
― Laura Chouette

“How the pale green leaves press upon the gray mountain silhouettes,
I saw mortality inside myself,
inside my own family.”
― Laura Chouette

“I always knew the mountains would take something from me one day.
I wrote about their fine lines, their graves, and their shades.

Then, one day, I looked up upon the gray—
it takes everything and then nothing,
even if you offer them everything.

You can’t survive it,
you live with it—
in small pieces,
small steps,
small moments.

All along, it takes you,
survives you—
you’ll never understand it.”
― Laura Chouette

“My kind of love is made for the stage,
untouchable and unbroken;
its fate is to be doomed in repetition,
in the most beautiful form of art.”
― Laura Chouette

“You have to let someone, at least one person in the world, know who you are.”
― Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain

“I need to learn. I need to know. [...] It's not being hurt that hurts.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne