Kelsey Sutton Quotes & Sayings

If you get killed, I swear I'll bring you back from the dead just to kill you again myself! — Kelsey Sutton

Humans are cruel. — Kelsey Sutton

You asked me once if I ever get tired of being who I am," he reminds me. "And the answer is this: only when I have to leave you. — Kelsey Sutton

Maggie faces me, forcing herself to smile again. It looks unnatural, as if that smile wants to shrivel and crawl away to a dark corner to weep. — Kelsey Sutton

I just wanted to go to ... some quiet place. To forget. To be someone else. — Kelsey Sutton

Because you are unbelievably adept at lying to yourself. Truly, I'm amazed. — Kelsey Sutton

How many of them have secrets they don't want the world to know? How many of them wear masks wherever they go? We're anything but typical. — Kelsey Sutton

I may have humored you in the past, but I'm done pretending. From now on, please accept that this is what I am. — Kelsey Sutton

Even though it can be hopeless, or unhealthy, or just stupid, we love anyway. Because that's what love is. Choosing to give it, especially when you shouldn't. — Kelsey Sutton

I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening. — Kelsey Sutton

And I wonder
if my family knows
that when we're not careful
not quick enough
things will fall to rot and ruin
so far
so badly
they can't be saved — Kelsey Sutton

As infuriating as he was, I found Forgiveness ... interesting. It's been impossible to forget, the way he looked at me. Not like I'm a dealer selling the drug he wants, or just another duty to be carried though. No, Forgiveness stared at me as if I'm someone.
And that's a drug all its own. — Kelsey Sutton

It just wasn't supposed to end like this." She looks at me with red-rimmed eyes and yellow skin. Colors should be a good thing, but now, they're marks, omens of bad tidings. "I was supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job," she continues in that gut-clenching croak. "Meet my dream guy, marry, have k-kids. You were going to live next door and we would grow old in the same nursing home. Chuck oatmeal at each other and watch soap operas all day in our rocking chairs. That was my daydream. My perfect life. I don't want to keep asking myself why until the end, but ... " A lone tear trails down her sunken cheek. This time I don't reach out to wipe the water away; I let it go. Down, down, until it drips off the side of her jaw. This is humanity. This is life and death in one room. — Kelsey Sutton

It strikes me how I'm thinking like I'm not human, myself. Like I'm not one of them. — Kelsey Sutton

Something dark moves out of the corner of my eye, and the room chills. When I glance over, I see Death, watching us patiently. He's so hard to look at. He's everything and nothing. Beautiful and ugly, terrible and wonderful. His eyes are black waters that are too easy to drown in. I can't even look at what he's wearing; it's impossible to look away from that face. He doesn't spare me a glance - Maggie is who he's come for. — Kelsey Sutton

My senses are consumed by their chatter, the sound of sneakers on the floor, laughter. These people are always in motion, always full of a life I lack, no matter how much I pretend. — Kelsey Sutton

It's the way humanity is; give them what they want, and it turns out it's not what they wanted after all. — Kelsey Sutton

I laugh, a sound that he cuts short with a kiss that tastes like strawberries and terror. — Kelsey Sutton

But her story isn't finished, and for once she's picked up a pen. — Kelsey Sutton

In the end it wasn't death or terror that shattered them. It was someone else's love. How poetic. — Kelsey Sutton

Everyone has a purpose. There are those who are unfortunate enough not to know what that purpose is, and there are those that are bound by it, thrive in it, know nothing else. — Kelsey Sutton

I didn't always dread going home. But when my family began to collapse I learned to stay away, avoid getting trapped beneath all the debris. — Kelsey Sutton

People are so complex. They want to hear the truth, but they want you to lie to them. — Kelsey Sutton

Your terror tastes just as I imagined, Elizabeth, Fear whispers into my ear. — Kelsey Sutton

[Fear] can be a pleasure to look at, and I understand how some other humans love to experience his essence. We can sense beauty, even if we don't see it. — Kelsey Sutton

It's a cloudy day out, no rain but no sun either. Unfair that on a day like this there shouldn't be brilliance for her. — Kelsey Sutton

I gaze up at the moon, thinking of how similar we are. One side always hidden while the other shines so bright. — Kelsey Sutton

My friends are right:
there is beauty
in desolation. — Kelsey Sutton

There's no point, I want to shout back. Let me go.
But that's what love is; holding on and holding tight no matter what. Through death, through pain, through everything. There's a part of me that wants to turn back and be worthy of it.
I'm standing on the edge of that bridge, though, and I'm tilting forward. Falling. There is no turning back. — Kelsey Sutton

Then she stretches her legs
toward the ceiling,
aiming for the sky
My sister doesn't know
that I've already been there — Kelsey Sutton

I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don't, they get close. And then they can see. — Kelsey Sutton

Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room. — Kelsey Sutton

When someone is pretending to be something, or hiding who they are or what they believe, they're really more ... protecting themselves. — Kelsey Sutton

I hide, I protect, I pretend. — Kelsey Sutton

You can't love him," he whispers. "I've waited so long. Why the boy? Why is it he that pounded a hole through the wall? — Kelsey Sutton

Life. It's a funny thing. Some want it, some throw it away. Some cling, some have it stolen from them. It's terrifying ... which is maybe why I was drawn to Fear in the first place. — Kelsey Sutton

Once in a while,
I remember who we used to be. — Kelsey Sutton

With the taste of rum in my mouth and the sting of remembrance in my heart, I set my sights on the man who killed my family. — Kelsey Sutton

It's something I never knew about her. How bizarre that you can know your entire life, see their most hidden pains and hopes, and not know the tiniest detail about them. — Kelsey Sutton

The most painful emotions are better than none at all. Ironically, we make you human. — Kelsey Sutton

Empty words from an empty person. — Kelsey Sutton

Stories that are
so vivid
so real
I could live inside of them — Kelsey Sutton