Alexandra Bracken Quotes

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

I can't shove the dark out of my way.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

We all have our inner demons.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.

His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.