Jessica Lorenzo > Jessica's Quotes

“While driving, we think, even for just a moment, about jerking the steering wheel into oncoming traffic or leaping off the balcony of a ship and into the abyss of the black water below. They’re passing thoughts and little dares we allow our psyche, because we’re tired of not living and we want the fear. We want to remember why we want to live.”
― Penelope Douglas, Conclave

“The role of the villain is only determined by who’s telling the story.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“How do you get over a failure?” “I think you mean a public failure. Because we all fail in private. I failed with you, for example, but no one posted an online review about it, unless you did. I fail with my wife and with my son. I fail in my work every day, but I keep turning over the problems until I’m not failing anymore. But public failures are different, it’s true.” “So, what do I do?” she asked. “You go back to work. You take advantage of the quiet time that a failure allows you. You remind yourself that no one is paying any attention to you and it’s a perfect time for you to sit down in front of your computer and make another game. You try again. You fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“It was all her. Deadly and stunning. Even her hatred was fucking beautiful.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“You have nothing but me,” I said. “And yet, you’d let me go?” “I have nothing but you,” he murmured. “So I am letting you go.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The stars are always guiding you towards your higher purpose, your higher self. You must have faith in them no matter how much pain they might have caused you up until now. Everything in life is about balance. Without pain, we cannot know pleasure, without sadness, we cannot appreciate joy. These equilibriums are what make the universe move forever forward. Without them, life would be static.”
― Caroline Peckham, Broken Fae

“If it is order that you value, then I will bring you nothing but chaos.”
― Harper L. Woods, The Coven

“What happens when I’m tired of fighting?” I asked, trying to ignore the pool of tears threatening to fall. Hoping the water from the shower would wash them away before he could notice. His face softened, his lips touching mine in a kiss that was so much more delicate than any other. “Then you let me do it for you.”
― Harper L. Woods, The Coven

“I hate that you made me love you,” I said, the desperate words coming out as the barest of whispers.”
― Harper L. Woods, The Cursed

“I love you, Witchling. For everything you are and for everything you are not.”
― Harper L. Woods, The Cursed

“So, yes, I was scared to fall. But without falling, I never would have landed. And what a beautiful thing it was to land.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gold

“Fantasy was my favourite way to escape this world, but life always dragged me back kicking and screaming.”
― Caroline Peckham, Eternal Reign

“If there was one thing that could make you forget your problems for a while, then it was looking your own death in the face and saying fuck you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Eternal Reign

“A warrior born but monster made, Changes fates of souls enslaved. Twins of sun and moon will rise, When one has lived a thousand lives. A circle of gold shall join two souls, And a debt paid rights wrongs of old. In a holy mountain the earth will heal, Then the dead shall live, and the curse will keel.”
― Caroline Peckham, Eternal Reign

“You taste like candied sin, rebel,” he whispered, and my throat thickened. “And oh, how easily that taste was claimed.”
― Caroline Peckham, Immortal Prince

“Come now, drakaina hjarta, you’ve been looking for an excuse to climb into my lap since the moment you felt my fingers tighten around your throat. This is just the excuse you’ve been hoping on.”
― Caroline Peckham, Immortal Prince

“I think the gods are toying with me again,” he rasped. “You torment me like they do. Only this torment is new. It’s deeper than my mind, it’s in my blood, my very veins. I cannot carve you out, and yet that is what I must do if I am ever to be rid of this madness.” He gripped my face tighter, glaring at me. “They designed you for this purpose, I am sure of it.”
― Caroline Peckham, Immortal Prince

“I want you,” he said darkly. “Not to love and adore, but to own and possess. I want every piece of you, and I have denied it to myself too long. The thought of you with him tonight has cracked my resolve. I resent you for that, despise you for it even, for awakening this insanity in me and destroying the plans I have laid. But it does not change the fact that I must have you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Immortal Prince

“If you let another man between your thighs, I’ll kill them and make you watch,” he warned, leaning back to glare at me. “You’re insane,” I panted.”
― Caroline Peckham, Immortal Prince

“Instead, his gaze lingered over my back, and he stilled. He looked like he had seen a ghost or… My scars. “Who did that to you?” His voice lacked every bit of his control.”
― Holly Renee, The Veiled Kingdom

“Stay out of trouble, Curious Moth,” he said, as he strode for the door. Curious Moth. A nickname. A fitting one, too, given the fact that I had no intentions of avoiding the flame.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“That is the tragedy of women, isn’t it? We deny ourselves beauty for the sake of misleading men.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“The wealthy possess an insatiable appetite for the rare and priceless. They stare because you’re the only thing worth staring at.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“Calling her beautiful was like calling the sun lukewarm. She’d blazed like the hottest part of a flame in that dress. And fuck me, I’d felt the heat.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“You’re a sickness inside of me that begs never to be cured. Infecting me with this unshakable craving for things I shouldn’t want.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“It was too damn easy to fall in love with you when I already loved everything about you, Cal,” I said, my voice rough with those words which had tortured me for so long.”
― Caroline Peckham, Restless Stars