Kristyn LaFrance > Kristyn's Quotes

“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

“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

“He didn’t want me to jump because he didn’t want me to find out I could catch myself.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“She looked at him like he was the sun. And he looked at her like she was the moon.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“There she is.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Love is fucking terrifying,” he murmured. “I think that’s true no matter who you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Don’t you dare stop fighting, princess. It would break my damned heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Oraya didn’t need to be saved. She just needed a soul beside her on the dark walk to her own potential.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The king knew, in this moment, that his greatest love would also be his ruination, and that both would come in the unlikely form of a young human woman.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“He kissed me like he was starving. Kissed me the way he had fed from me in a cave once, many months ago—desperate and deep and full of hunger, like I was the only thing tethering him to the world. And Mother, I felt that way, too, like I was grasping hold of something solid for the first time in so long. Like I had come home.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The kiss was like a thunderstorm over the summer desert—a torrent that swept in all at once, obliterating the heat, so all-consuming that suddenly you remember nothing but the rain. All at once, he was everywhere.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“He’d raised me to look at the bars of my cage and call them trees.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“As a young man, I used to think that bravery was the absence of fear. No. I’d learned since then that the absence of fear was only stupidity.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The first time in weeks I’d seen something that looked like fight in her eyes. Goddess, I could’ve fucking wept for it. There she is, I thought.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important.
Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.
I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn't seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.
"Blue," I say, my voice low.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine. And I can feel myself drowning.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“What do you want to call me?” “I want to call you mine.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“If I am to be her enemy, I want it to be because she loathes herself for wanting me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“My pretty Pae, what have you done to me?”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I’m going to ask again. Who did this to you?”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She said I could touch her when I was sober”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Because beasts don’t get the beauty.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Men would likely go extinct without women to coddle them.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Every girl deserves something equally as pretty and deadly as they are,”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“The strongest weapon a woman has at her disposal is that she is often underestimated,”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I was lonely in a way that I imagine the stars to be, observed by everyone yet too far to truly be seen.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I love when you threaten to kill me, do you know that?” “Oh? And why is that?” The corner of his mouth twitches up. “Because every time you don’t, it only proves that you don’t want to.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless