To Hunt the Hunter (Girls Who Dare, #11)

by Emma V. Leech

“It is better to have something lovely for a short time, than not at all,” Lucian said, his voice soft. “I admit, it has taken me many years to accept the truth of that. It is too easy to lose yourself in hatred and bitterness and regret, too easy to lose what happiness you might find in something fleeting.

“Life is not always pretty, Lucian. If you lived it, I can hear it. I won’t break.”

That’s what you do when you love someone: you stick with them, no matter what, through thick and thin, whether it’s pretty or not.”

“Sometimes that is the price love commands, Lucian. If you are not prepared to pay it, it is not love at all.”

the living are who we must live our lives with; the dead have had their turn.”

Men have always feared women with knowledge. Makes us dangerous, you see, powerful in ways they don’t like nor understand.

dreadful things happen when people pretend not to see something bad or unjust because it’s easier to ignore it.”

“I want to stand beside you and let everyone know you are mine, that I love you and that I am loved, and I cannot, and it is killing me.”