Dawn Kurtagich Quotes & Sayings

We have no right to children if despair is all we bring with us. — Dawn Kurtagich

I'm not me,
And nor is she,
Who sits upon the bed?
But then who,
Is, is you,
Who seats here very dead? — Dawn Kurtagich

And here I sit, writing about him as though he's just a ghost from my past that still haunts me. And I guess that is all he is now. Just some guy I used to know. — Dawn Kurtagich

I curse anyone who reads this book. If you touch it, hell will be waiting. Screw you. Happy reading. — Dawn Kurtagich

I've learned, in my tragic little life, that memories are like water. Not solid, like some people think. Once something happens, it isn't set it stone. It can change.

You can make yourself believe anything if you lie to yourself enough. — Dawn Kurtagich

Kaitie, are you alone?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Hang up."
"But why? What is it?"
"I can hear someone breathing on the line."
[Click] — Dawn Kurtagich

Dark waters run deep. — Dawn Kurtagich

Things can stay safe for long
they can pretend to fit
but then you hear Discord's song
and things crack bit by bit. — Dawn Kurtagich

You're going to destroy me," I whisper.
And then he is shaking even more, and I realize it's because he is crying. Not just crying, but the kind of bone-deep crying that only comes from grief. From the deepest sorrow. The kind of crying that tears deep down into the soul from some wound that time can never touch. — Dawn Kurtagich

I don't say anything because he's got fire inside him for sure, and fire burns. — Dawn Kurtagich

Your eyes will be brown, a color that holds secrets well. — Dawn Kurtagich

They think I don't exist . . . they think I'm like a disease. I'm infecting Carly. — Dawn Kurtagich

I'm sorry. I really do try not to get angry. Carly says anger is a weapon, but sometimes I think it's just another cage. — Dawn Kurtagich

I hate that I'm so easy to let go. — Dawn Kurtagich

The words slipped out like a bubble, too fragile to resist the destruction of air. It was like a glass smashing against a wall. — Dawn Kurtagich

One box, and it holds a whole life of love - almost every letter Carly and I have ever exchanged. Seeing it here, all together, three big bundles of paper...is that all we were? Dying pages, fading ink? — Dawn Kurtagich

There are places. Abandoned places. Forgotten places. These are the places I like to be. — Dawn Kurtagich

Because, Dee, I'm the thing in the dark, just like the Viking used to tell me. I'm the creature coming up from the basement, the thing under the bed. I have nothing to feat in the dark. I am the dark.

I am afraid. — Dawn Kurtagich

At least with my father, the danger was out in the open. I knew what to expect. But Auntie Cath is a different kind of dark altogether.
The worst kind.
The kind made from love. — Dawn Kurtagich

I am a prisoner of my skin. My bones are my cage. — Dawn Kurtagich

Rotting in your skin
rotting in your mind
you are rotting in this house
in this house you'll die. — Dawn Kurtagich

You can tell me anything, you know."
"Even a bad thing?"
"Of course, even a bad thing. And you know, when you tell someone else a bad thing, it breaks in half, so that you're only carrying a small bit of it. — Dawn Kurtagich

Tell me pleasant lies, and I will believe them before I throw them away. — Dawn Kurtagich