“Normal is a cage with the door wide open. Step out — amazing only lives out here.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
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“You'll never know how fucking amazing you are if you spend your life trying to be normal.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“Couldn't find my monsters on any shelf. So I wrote them.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“If the book you crave doesn't exist yet, that's your sign. Write it. I did.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Writing
“Run straight at the life you keep dreaming about. Don't knock — it's already yours.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“No act of kindness is ever wasted. Even monsters remember who was kind to them.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Kindness
“Where there is no imagination, there is only horror.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton, after Arthur Conan Doyle
Creativity
“Sleep tight. She's already in your dreams.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“Who cares what people say or think. Just be you.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“After every storm is a rainbow. So just hold on — the storm will pass, and you will find your rainbow.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Rainbows
“Even the voices in my head went quiet. They said I was too crazy.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“Do you feel like you're being watched? Maybe the words can see you.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Writing
“The voices in my head left. They said I corrupted them.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“If the dark calls your name, answer. It only knocks for its own.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Be so strange they can't look away. Then smile like you know why.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“Nobody's coming to save you. Good. Saves you having to thank them.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“A cage only works if you believe in the bars.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“Love yourself like something ancient and hungry would — completely, and forever.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“They buried the weird ones first in every story. This one's mine.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Writing
“Scream if you must. Then get up and finish it screaming.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“Pretty is quiet. I'm not here to be quiet.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“Feed the strange thing in you before it feeds on you.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“If your dreams don't scare them a little, dream darker.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“Normal people dream in black and white. Mine bleed purple.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“The monsters under my bed left. They said I scared them.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“If the path looks normal, you're lost. Turn toward the howling.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“Grow fangs if you have to. Just don't go hungry.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“Sweet is a flavor. I'm more of a warning label.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“If they call you too much, good. Too much is exactly enough.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Be the plot twist they never recover from.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Creativity
“Every scar is a door I walked through still standing.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“The grave can wait. I have pages to fill.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Writing
“My shadow doesn't follow me. It walks beside me, holding my hand.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Some hearts are haunted houses. Mine just learned to love the ghosts.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“Wear your weird like a crown. Let them bow or leave.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“Don't dim for anyone. The right eyes hunt in the dark.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Sunshine
“First taste is free. The craving isn't.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Writing
“Kiss your demons goodnight. They fight for you tomorrow.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“Don't beg the light to love you. The dark already chose you.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Broken is not the same as finished. Ask any scar.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“The dark raised me stubborn. I don't stay down for anybody.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“If I have to crawl, I'll crawl pretty. But I'm moving.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Even my shadow knows better than to leave me.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Be haunted by your dreams if you won't chase them.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“Hold your head high enough and the crown of thorns looks like jewelry.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Fear is just excitement that hasn't met me yet.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Some of us weren't built for cages or daylight. We were built for moonlight and mischief.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“The night doesn't scare me. I pay rent there.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“They counted me out. I learned to count myself in.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Hope
“Pain knocked. I answered in a language it didn't speak: mine.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Some houses are haunted. Some girls are. I rent out rooms in both.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“I don't chase ghosts. They follow me home asking to stay.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“Every room I leave keeps a little of my cold in it.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“I keep my skeletons where I can see them. They make lovely company.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“Don't fear the haunted places. Fear the empty ones — nothing loved them enough to stay.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“If my love doesn't haunt you a little, I did it wrong.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“The dead aren't the scary ones. It's the almost — the almost said, the almost stayed.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Life
“Every girl should haunt at least one person. Choose wisely. It's forever.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Weirdness
“We don't rattle chains anymore. We whisper your name and let you do the rest.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Monsters
“Treat people how you want to be treated.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Sunshine
“Remember, it could be you on the other side of the fence — and the grass ain't always greener.”
— Demonica Vehlora Clinton
Community
“When life knocks you down, you get back up, and you never fail.”
— My Husband, My Dom, My Twin Flame
Hope
“Failure is never found in falling, but in giving up.”
— My Husband, My Dom, My Twin Flame
Hope
“As long as I keep rising, keep trying, and refuse to surrender, I will never truly fail.”
— My Husband, My Dom, My Twin Flame
Hope
“I do what I say and I say what I do”
— My Husband, My Dom, My Twin Flame
Life
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
Life
“If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
— Maya Angelou
Weirdness
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela
Hope
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
Life
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
Life
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Hope
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop
Kindness
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Creativity
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