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“When Matthew plans a special something, it’s usually either terribly delightful or delightfully terrible,”
‘He’s indeed very dashing, but you must not forget your own heroism.’
“You may fear what will happen if you speak your heart. You may wish to hide things because you fear hurting others. But secrets have a way of eating at relationships, Jamie. At love, at friendship—they undermine and destroy them until in the end you find you are bitterly alone with the secrets you kept.”
Love is a prison, and I have no desire for shackles. They would clash with my outfit.”
How do I live in this moment forever, and not let it go?
“And maybe it’s selfish of me, but now that you know the truth, and I can speak of it to someone, it is an easier burden to bear than I would have imagined.”
“when you want something very much, you are willing to accept the shadow of that thing. Even if it is just a shadow.”
“That love is complicated,” said Cordelia. “That it lies beside anger and hatred, because only those we truly love can truly disappoint us.”
“Only promise me one thing,” he said. “If I do go, give us a happy ending, will you? In your book?”
“Tom, you patrolled alone at night because you like things that are dangerous and unhealthy for you. I won’t be one of those things.”
But love is not always a lightning bolt, is it? Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”
“You cannot save people who do not want to be saved,” said Magnus. “You can only stand by their side and hope that when they wake and realize they need saving, you will be there to help them.”
