The Beauty of Darkness is a book by Mary E. Pearson, the third in her Remnant Chronicles series.
It is a YA page-turner combining intrigue, suspense, romance, and action.
Here is a collection of the best quotes from The Beauty of Darkness book.
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Best The Beauty of Darkness Quotes
“If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Truth was a harder skill to master than swinging a sword.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Doubt was a poison I couldn’t afford to sip.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“It’s not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you’re going to marry someone else.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“There were no rules to grief, but there were rules to life, and in those first few days, the requirements of the living demanded I keep going.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“His death only gave me an ending — it didn’t give back what had been taken” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“It is hard to find reason when you’re being torn in two.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“You’ve made your choice. It’s for the best, then. We’re each called somewhere else.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“I didn’t have the luxury of living only in a single moment. I had to live in a hundred fractured moments that held our futures in the balance.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
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Famous The Beauty of Darkness Quotes
“Choice is powerful and can lead to great things if not held in the tight fists of a few.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we’ve taken, it will cripple us, and soon we’ll take no action at all.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“When I was halfway between one world and another, a moment of clarity broke through. This is what it was to die.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history?” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“The gods have a wicked sense of humor.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“How did you end up with an assassin and newly crowned king as your confidantes?”
“A prince, in the turn of a moment and a few words, was now a king.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
Quotes from The Beauty of Darkness
“Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Lay down your arms, and we will create a hope that lasts.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“No one is too great to fall.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere.”
“Be brave, be victorious.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Some betrayals ran too deep to ever forgive.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Maybe when you’re about to die, secrets don’t seem so important to keep.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
Top The Beauty of Darkness Quotes
“There were many ways a life could be sacrificed, and it wasn’t always through dying.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“That’s where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“You are not letting me go anywhere. Where I go and what I do is still my choice to make.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn’t command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“It doesn’t matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“I am choosing my own destiny now – not a book, nor a man or a kingdom.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“My strengths are not your strengths.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“No matter how great a gift or skill, it’s impossible to foresee every outcome.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
Once we fear to take a stand, tyranny will have won.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
Powerful The Beauty of Darkness Quotes
“It is good to have many strengths, Natiya…Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Every kiss, every touch, was a promise that we both knew, I was his and he was mine, and no conspiracy or scheme of kingdoms had a fraction of the power that surged between us.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“It may not seem like it now, but you´re stronger today than you were yesterday. Tomorrow, you´ll be even stronger.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Betrayal tends to familiarize one with weapons.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Regroup. Move forward.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“I am yours, Morrighan, forever yours … and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
Some last words should never be said.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“The universe sang your name to me. I simply sang it back.” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
“I realized there were assumptions we made about people, and once we did, that was all we could see” ~ Mary E. Pearson (The Beauty of Darkness).
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