Bianca Nicole > Bianca's Quotes

“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina,” he said. “You and I are going to change the world.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“It takes a certain kind of courage to be brave in love. A courage you can only get better at through practice.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“Take responsibility for your own unhappiness, Holly. If you don’t love your life, change it.”
― Abby Jimenez, Worst Wingman Ever

“Know that I loved you,” she said to the Darkling. “Know that it was not enough.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“You are all I’ve ever wanted,” he said. “You are the whole of my heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I have no silks or gold, but I’d promise to eat your enemy’s heart and tear their lungs out with my claws in exchange for your kiss,”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Lover

“People talk about the stages of grief, but there is a stage of depression—at least for me—where you go from feeling pain so acutely you can’t bear it, to feeling nothing at all. A blessed numbness after debilitating sadness. It’s like laying a thin film of steel over your emotions. So thin it’s diaphanous. You can see everything through it, but nothing actually touches you. I couldn’t feel a thing, but I embraced it because at least I wasn’t feeling pain. At that time, joy didn’t stand a chance, but tonight I feel everything. And it is finally good.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go

“That the quiet fire that reared its head the first time I saw you would rush up one day and catch me unaware. That given the chance, it would consume me. And that I would let it.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“He said all truly good writing—fiction or nonfiction—has a heartbeat, a life force that comes from the writer, like an invisible cord connecting them to the reader. Without it, the work is dead on arrival.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“Suddenly, in that moment, she realized she could forgive Daniel, not only for his final act of brutality but for all of it. The manipulation, the infidelity, the hundreds of tiny cruelties that had made up their marriage. But perhaps even more astonishing, she realized she could forgive herself. For giving him power over her, for seeing too late who he really was—and for staying long after she knew.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“as if reading my thoughts, then pulls me into the circle of his arms. This is what it’s supposed to be like, I think as his mouth closes over mine. This. This. This.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“Nobody had warned her of this as a girl, that the years would pass and she would still resort to this, that she would live in a body that was always on guard.”
― Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

“It would mean maybe I’m not so terrible after all, and maybe there isn’t something wrong with me, and I don’t deserve bad things to happen to me. It would mean that I was justified in feeling sad and alone growing up, that I deserved to be loved and cared for, that I’m not a cold, unlovable person.”
― Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

“In the real world, recovery from mental illness could be a lifelong struggle, like pushing through a revolving door. Progress would be made and lost, setbacks were inevitable, and there was no finish line or picture-perfect ending.”
― Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

“Fiction became a friend as well as a safe harbor, a cocoon to protect her from the outside world and its dangers.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar. We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes. A word that builds gallows and pyres, turns breathing women into corpses.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Kate knows better than anyone how dangerous men can be. The thought sparks fury in her. She’s not sure if it’s a new feeling, or if it was always there, smothered by fear. But now it burns bright in her blood. Fury. For herself. And for the women that came before.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Like crazily, swooningly, heart-burstingly in love. Like the kind of in love I didn’t even know was possible. The kind of in love that makes every other emotion look tiny and dollhouse sized. The kind that feels like sunshine and fills you up with excitement somehow—even when there’s nothing to be excited about. The kind that makes everything better—no matter how bad it is—and even utterly ordinary things like brushing your teeth feel tinged with magic.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“I know better than to look backward. I know how to try, and how to fail, and how to try again. I know how to live from the inside out. I know to savor every snuggle, every morning swim, every tickle, every meal, every warm bath, every moment when somebody makes you laugh.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“More than anything, I know that you just have to choose to make the best of things. You get one life, and it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

“That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I had never understood the concept of making love before. It seemed cheesy and dramatic. But I got it then. It isn’t just about the movement. It’s about the way your heart swells when he gets close. The way his breath feels like a warm fire. It’s about the fact that your brain shuts down and your heart takes over.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Isn’t it nice,” he says, “once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Why do we do this? Why do we undervalue things when we have them? Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Just because I can live without him doesn’t mean I want to.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do