Broken Knight (All Saints High, #2)

by L.J. Shen

I knew, then, that ours would not be a happily ever after. He deserved more than a girl who couldn’t tell him how she felt. He was perfect, and I was flawed.

There were two Knight Coles. One was mine. The other everyone else’s.

“Moonshine,” he whispered. “You fill up the empty, dark space—like the moon owns the sky. It is quiet. It is bright. It doesn’t need to be a ball of flame to be noticed. It simply exists. It forever glows.”

I recognized the sound of her running away from me like it was my first language. And I vowed, that night, to stop doing the chasing.

I died a thousand deaths before I inflicted the slightest of pain on your beautiful, tarnished heart.”

“The first words she ever speaks to me in her life, and she decides to break my heart with them. For the longest time, I wished I could unthink you. Unlove you. Unbreathe you. I think I finally can.”

So much of this is his own fault

“Screwing FUCKING JOSH. Kissing Vaughn. Flirting with Ken. You’ve really become quite a hussy, haven’t you, Luna?”

Fuck him

Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.”

“If you think you’ve found something good without anything bad in it, it just means you haven’t examined it close enough.”

“What if tomorrow never comes?” I whispered. “Then, my darling boy, we’ll make the best of today.”

“I don’t want nice.” I narrowed my eyes at her. Really, what I’d meant to say was I didn’t want anyone who wasn’t Knight.

Maybe hearts were like carefully tended flowers. Sometimes they just wilted, no matter what you did.

“That once you’re with me, you won’t be able to touch anyone else. Want anyone else. Feel for anyone else.”

Love is selfish. Love is raw. Love is unfair, and unpredictable, and unstoppable.

Dean couldn’t know this. Neither could Lev.

I hate this

Plans to cancel myself so I could help him.

This is so fucking stupid

“Go and save your princess, my love.” I kissed his forehead. “She is waiting. Besides, that’s what knights do.”

This is all he has going in his life? There's nothing else to discuss in your final moments??