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“Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality.”
― Josh Kilmer-Purcell, I Am Not Myself These Days

“The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.”
― Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle

“Don’t pack out
______________

To some people, you make life bright
When you decide to dim your light
Their lives will be full of darkness
Do shine your light in kindness

To some people, you bring out a joy
With their emotions, never ever toy
With your smiles, grease them with oil
And make them glad when their lives boil

To other people, you are the warmth
That kills coldness and brings strength
Don’t do it; don’t pack out
Else, they will have blackout

You’re on earth to do two things here
Wake up and do them now; this year
First, dare to grow and become better
Second, help others to also become greater

Never in any of the four seasons
Should you neglect your gifts for any reasons
The world needs you to make it a better place
Don’t pack out; run your race”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Well, this all kind of reminds me of that blackout a few years ago. Remember? I was outside when it happened and it was so dark out I could barely see my own hand, let alone what was up the street. But I kept going forward, step by step, until I reached a familiar corner. Sometimes you just have to push ahead to find what you're looking for.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“Patches don’t look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, it’s because you’re hurting from something. I don’t know if you noticed, but that girl had a lot of holes.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“The shadow self is what lies beneath the makeup. It’s those ugly parts that you haven’t accepted about yourself. You hide those parts in the shadows until you’re ready.â€� Her face remained a haunting calm. “When you realize the scars are who you are, that there was nothing wrong with you and that you were beautiful all along - that’s when you decide to take the makeup off.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Gern hätte er Europa jetzt aus der internationalen Weltraumstation ISS gesehen. Wo sonst die feinen Adern und leuchtenden Knoten des Lichtsystems bis ins All strahlten, musste über weiten Flächen Dunkelheit liegen.”
― Marc Elsberg, Blackout. Morgen ist es zu spät

“There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Sometimes people say or do things that are mean because there's something the matter with them. With Lydia, it seems there’s always something wrong with her.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“I thought for a minute you were going to start a war for me.â€�
Christian held the door open. “You’ll know when that day comes.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“Mr. Lecky never got any farther than the third floor. Not conscious of impossible fatigue, feeling less than his distress of the morning, he was notwithstanding seized by a faintness. This sudden spinning dizzied him. A darkness as impalpable, more discrete, yet blacker than night's, spun out from dancing points to overlapping disks. They were so wide, so close to his eyes, that he could not strike them off. He had only a second given him to see and apprehend. This same second loosened his grip on consciousness. He seemed to let go, hardly struggling. His muscles let go everywhere, too. He had time to hear, like some remote accident, the bang of the shotgun, gone, the smash of glass in at least one flashlight lens. This was the thin segment of the actual second, and Mr. Lecky knew nothing of himself slumping to lie on the stairs with the things he had dropped.”
― James Gould Cozzens, Castaway

“But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causalityâ€�'

'By time traveling�'

'Please, please don't call it that. If a human were to violate causality, the experience from her point of view would be similar. You would act while in the past, but not be able to recall your actions later, because that period of time for you would be lost between histories: the old one you left and the new one to which you would return. It would exist outside of the normal course of events. It would be, in a very real sense, lost time.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“Because I am, just as you are you. We don’t always get to pick who we are, Shelly Wynn, but we can choose to celebrate it.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Che bello! Silenzio, niente televisione, poche macchine per le strade, casa tiepida. È quasi come l'anno che scrissi la "Storia di Tonle", quando una grande nevicata fece cadere la linea telefonica e quella elettrica. E in casa ero ben fornito di tutto: libri, legna, farina, patate, crauti, carne, vino...
Ecco: questo "buiofuori" potrebbe far accendere la "lucedentro". Si può vivere senza tanti artifizi; per anni l'ho provato e con la mente si possono superare e trovare soluzioni che sembrano impossibili.”
― Mario Rigoni Stern, Aspettando l'alba e altri racconti

“I don't remember things. I black out and I can't remember where I've been or what I've done. Sometimes I wonder if I've done or said terrible things, and I can't remember. And if...if someone tells me something I've done, it doesn't even feel like me. it doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. i feel bad, but the thing that i've done --it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Stirring the pastry cream and putting it in the blast chiller in the island, a total chefly indulgence that I have never once regretted. The house filling with the scent of rich, dark chocolate as the cakes rise in the oven. The treat of the moist trimmings as I even up the layers before spreading the thick custard filling between them. The fudgy frosting smoothed perfectly over the whole thing, and then immediately marred with chocolate cookie crumbs.”
― Stacey Ballis, Out to Lunch

“No, no. I’m already going to hell in a handbasket, but I draw the line at having sex in a church with a Vampire dressed as a priest.”
― Dannika Dark, Blackout

“Soon, all the children were chanting it. “No school! No school!”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Somehow her hula hoop had cut into the driver’s side door like the vehicle was made of cheese.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“She could spin it between her legs, skip with it, twirl it around her neck and transfer it from one arm to the other. Shelly hooped because she enjoyed it; it calmed her whenever she would have an argument or a bad day at school, and it also allowed her to think. Today, she needed to hoop more than ever.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Shelly shook her head and made sure she had plenty of space so that she wouldn’t hit anything. As many times before, she kept the hoop close to her waist and then twirled it with small, tight bursts of speed. As the hoop gathered in momentum it started to give off a hum that soon took on a light blue illumination far brighter than the streetlamps. It was so bright, that it lit up the entire backyard.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“I’m afraid they’re not coming.â€� Abby said fearfully. “Our parents, our teachers â€� everyone! They’ve disappeared. That’s it. Lights out, Shelly. We’re on our own.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Lydia displays her right hand and instantly bathed the room with a blinding light. It lasted only a moment before it drew back into her palm.
“I can fix you if you’re ever broken.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“It’s no big deal. It’s kind of like a tattoo. It won’t hurt, not too much, just a few stitches and it’ll be all over. It’s really interesting how it’s done. You won’t believe where your soul hides. Go on, take a guess. Where do you think it is?”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“Aloha Oukou. It looked like your soul was escaping so I put you in a tree.”
― Nathan Reese Maher, Lights Out: Book 2

“I loved you before I even knew I loved you, he told me once.”
― Lisa Unger

“America
became a dirty word
in 1492
when
we
landed”
― Austin Kleon, (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]

“What's exciting about the poems is that by destroying writing you can create new writing.”
― Austin Kleon, (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]

“If your current self is not the same as your past self, then what's the point of planning for anything?”
― Nicola Yoon, Blackout