11 Quotes by Ellie Fox

The water under the bridge looked strangely enticing. For a mortuary, it was oddly breathtaking. I felt in tune with all the beings lying underneath, creatures no different than me, some of them human, lost on their way to heaven, who decided to end it all one day for reasons no one else could comprehend. It pained my heart to think I was in that place.

I glanced at Marcus’s grave, and my gaze wandered to the blood-red rose. It wasn’t blood-red, or beautiful anymore. Mud and murk had spoiled its fragile beauty and mutilated it into a miserable gray object, disfigured beyond recognition, tarnished, and misshapen, soon to be devoured by the murky ground that surrounded it. It was no longer a symbol of hope and innocence. It was an omen; a harbinger of death and destruction. And I was truly terrified of it.

The devil doesn't always laugh. Sometimes, he weeps with you.

Some things in life you can’t get away from. You can’t outrun fate. Your feet can try but you’ll still be in the universe’s version of a hamster wheel. Running, but not getting anywhere.

All the time, I lay in bed, I kept hearing Ian’s words. “Not easy selling your soul to the devil, is it?

But that’s the thing about narcissists. They can try to fool you, with all their heart, but in the end, they’re just fooling themselves.

They want to kill your power to dream, to want happiness. But you can’t let that stop you. You can’t let them win. We deserve this happiness, and more. We should forgive ourselves for our fathers’ misdeeds. And stop punishing ourselves for their crimes. Because otherwise, it was all for nothing.

He was the devil.Calm, unfettered, and unaffected. Leading me down a sordid path.

When you realize you don’t matter, the world becomes inconsequential and claustrophobic. You feel trapped inside your body, and your mind. Nothing can take you out of desperation, unless they take the brunt of your loneliness and make it their own.