The Freedom Flag is a powerful, physical reminder of one of the darkest days in American history.
Abigail Spanberger
I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption - or just to kill them.
Adrian McKinty
The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.
Alexandra Bracken
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
After I finished 'The Darkest Minds' series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different - lighter in tone, with a little bit more romance, and a completely different set of characters - that would also, um, finally justify my liberal arts degree.
In 'The Darkest Minds,' Zu's trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It's her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.
When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.
Alexandra Daddario
Having great friends in New York is like having great friends on an expedition into Darkest Africa in the early 19th century. You need them. And you need sponsorship on a daily basis. I have a painter friend here who says, 'I need two compliments a day just to break even.' And we gave them to each other, and we got them - and honestly got them.
Allan Gurganus
The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
Amanda Lindhout
I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
Remembrance Day is a timely reminder that, in what may be some of Britain's darkest hours, it is the bravery of millions of ordinary people from all races, religions, and backgrounds that have kept our country's flame burning and stood up for the values we hold dear.
Amber Rudd
Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.
Andrzej Duda
I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.
Andy Dick
My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.
Andy Hurley
I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.
Angelique Kerber
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
Ayelet Waldman
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
Balthazar Getty
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.
I think December has always been the most haunted month, from the gothic-narrative point of view - a lot of Edgar Allan Poe stories are set in December. It's the last month of the year, and it's supposed to be sort of this mystical, spiritual month. And being Swedish, December is also the darkest month out of the year.
Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all.
It's only when I'm on stage that I really come to terms with the fact that other people are hearing my most inner, darkest thoughts.
The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.
Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.
Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.
I think there comes a time in every persons life where they just need to go to the darkest, most dismal place.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm usually the darkest person there... I kind of resent that mentality. I'm just an individual.
Christmastime is about hope with what God did for us and with the expression of His love through the gift He gave us at Christmastime, which was Jesus... the one who heals us, who saves us, who delivers us, who is there in our darkest moments.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
You get to choose the bond of lifelong friendships, of being there for the darkest and happiest of times.
'The Clone Wars' is certainly set in the darkest possible time throughout the whole 'Star Wars' story.
In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.
Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.
There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
Sometimes I'll read something on Twitter, and I'll just be in the darkest of moods for the rest of the day or the rest of the week sometimes.
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
