Nenia Campbell Quotes

It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

~ Nenia Campbell

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

~ Nenia Campbell

Being depressed and suicidal doesn't mean wanting to kill yourself every moment of every day. It may be a fixed obsession, but sometimes it gets relegated to the back of your head. Rather, it means the world takes on the very cut and dry, black and white, unilateral aspect of a flowchart.

~ Nenia Campbell

Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams.From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded before her years, who knew that beasts could wear the skins of men, and that evil could exist in sunlight, as well as darkness.Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

~ Nenia Campbell

Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one desperately-sought phrase would be the key to her salvation. Most things were like that: excess in times of abundance, and shortages in times of dearth. Life, she realized, was an unbalanced scale, and would never weigh in one's favor, struggle as one might.

~ Nenia Campbell

All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper, we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even reveal to ourselves.

~ Nenia Campbell

Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.

~ Nenia Campbell

When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

~ Nenia Campbell

The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.

~ Nenia Campbell

Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor—and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed.

~ Nenia Campbell

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

~ Nenia Campbell

There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.

~ Nenia Campbell

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

~ Nenia Campbell

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

~ Nenia Campbell

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

~ Nenia Campbell

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten, these are the things which make us human.

~ Nenia Campbell

In a fight between a shifter and a witch, the shifter would often win—but only if they could keep the witch from speaking, usually by severing the throat or tearing out the tongue. If the witch was powerful enough, and quick enough, physical size didn't matter. Catherine had heard of the horrible ways the witches could kill their victims. Cooking them alive from the inside out, restricting oxygen flow through the nasal and oral passages by creating a vacuum, drowning them with vapor pulled from the very air.It made fights between shifters look almost humane by comparison.

~ Nenia Campbell

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

~ Nenia Campbell

Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,In the darkest hours before the dawn,When witches roam and demons spawn,And children die with spirit gone,Magicked away in the gloaming.

~ Nenia Campbell

...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

~ Nenia Campbell

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

~ Nenia Campbell

I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

~ Nenia Campbell

Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of raw nerves and open sores; she was insanity, wrapped up in the thin, transient wrappings of a temporary lucidity; and she was afraid, because an innate desire lay in the bottom reaches of her psyche for the very poison that was killing her.

~ Nenia Campbell

He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.

~ Nenia Campbell

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

~ Nenia Campbell

Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

~ Nenia Campbell

As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight.

~ Nenia Campbell

What once was had, forever lost; thy fate is destined, thy love star-crossed.

~ Nenia Campbell

If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.

~ Nenia Campbell

Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.

~ Nenia Campbell

You are fifty different kinds of twisted.Only fifty? Val, you wound me.

~ Nenia Campbell

I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It excites me. I am in Plato's cave, watching the shadows and fraught with the desire to hunt what casts them.

~ Nenia Campbell

We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.

~ Nenia Campbell

If I catch you, I might do anything. I might strip the skin from your bones as I drain you dry. Or I might drag you into my chambers and have you pleasure me in ways you cannot even imagine. I might even take mercy on you, and that would be the cruelest injustice of all, because for you, it would only be a temporary reprieve.

~ Nenia Campbell

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

~ Nenia Campbell

It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.

~ Nenia Campbell

There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.

~ Nenia Campbell

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,My darkness is composed of him.

~ Nenia Campbell

Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark.

~ Nenia Campbell

Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!

~ Nenia Campbell