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  • #1
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #2
    Holly Black
    “By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #3
    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #4
    Holly Black
    “I am going to keep on defying you. I am going to shame you with my defiance. You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing. You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down. I promise you this is the least of what I can do.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #5
    Sarah J. Maas
    “He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #6
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “Promise me you won't forget this, Poppy. That no matter what happens tomorrow, the next day, next week, you won't forget this, forget that this was real”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

  • #7
    Alexandra Christo
    “There is nothing in the world but pain and the rare moments that exist in between”
    Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

  • #8
    Shelby Mahurin
    “If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.”
    Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

  • #9
    Shelby Mahurin
    “What you are now is not what you’ve always been, nor is it what you always will be. You are a snake. Shed your skin if it no longer serves you. Transform into something different. Something better.”
    Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

  • #10
    Shelby Mahurin
    “The world didn’t end in a scream.
    It ended in a gasp.
    A single, startled exhalation.
    And then— Nothing.
    Nothing but silence.”
    Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

  • #11
    Shelby Mahurin
    “What are you?” He chuckled, his eyes cutting to mine.
    “I simply . . . am.”
    “That’s not an answer.”
    “Of course it is. Why must I bind myself to fit your expectations?”
    Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would make you my queen because I want you. I want you all the time.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I suppose that's why I love you."
    His eyes flew open and his face lit in an extraordinary grin. "All Saints, say it again."
    "I will not."
    "You must."
    "I'm the queen. I must do nothing but please myself."
    "Would it please you to kiss me?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We'll be Kings and Queens, Inej. Kings and Queens.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #18
    “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #19
    “I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

    The world is flat.

    I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #20
    “You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

  • #21
    “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #22
    “The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
    H e l l i s e m p t y
    a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e

    I kiss my way across the words.
    Kissing away the devils.
    Kissing away the pain.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #23
    “His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.

    Because this.

    This is everything.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #24
    “Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
    "It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #25
    “Come back to life, love. I'll be here when you wake up.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #26
    “In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #27
    “To the world, she is formidable. To me? She is the world.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me



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