Dark Fantasy Books Quotes

“I am the first Lost boy.
And I learned a long time ago:
If you wear wonder like a weapon,
the world won't notice when it wounds.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“Zzortis quaked with laughter. Then, to his dismay, an icicle fell from his chin. Pel could tell from his thoughts and the fear of the igni positioned below that nearly got speared by it. "No!" he exclaimed at the loss of dignity.”
― K.V. Wilson, To Speak with the Stars

“Poverty is the default, the original state. Prosperity, on the other hand, the kind where there’s so much gold you don’t even know how to spend it and end up hiding chests of it underground, can only be achieved with a single trick. Crime. It’s always crime. Crime is the secret sauce, the finger-licking good one.”
― Rainer Meri, Inferno's Silence

“For my father was a man of stubborn will, and those whom he deemed in the wrong were, in his sight, insolent doubters of his power.”
― S.C. Griffith

“I don't remember falling—
just the hush before it.
Like a breath I meant to keep
but let go by accident.
Like closing my eyes mid-sentence
and forgetting the word for
stay.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“One day, you will feel what it means to miss someone
so hard you unravel. To feel them in places that never felt haunted before. I hope it haunts you the way it haunts me.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“You took the part of him
that still believed
in something more than pain—
and dressed it up in pixie dust
so you could pretend
you gave him peace.

You don't get to twist that into legend.
You don't get to wrap your hunger
in fairy dust and dusk
and call it rescue.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse

“He left us—
like broken toys
with sharp edges
and no purpose.

Now we stitch sails
from the skin of forgotten boys.
We sharpen our grief on coral reefs
and spit prayers into bottles
no one will open.”
― JL MacDougall, Venom In Velvet: A Dark Fantasy Novel-in-Verse