81 Quotes by Sonya Hartnett

"My heart lurched and cleanly broke."

"I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us."

"Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair."

"I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you."

"You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others."

"In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind."

"The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitterness."

"The warmth of outside was shaved from my skin and fell in curls to the floor."

"Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery."

"I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it."