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“I didn't tell him, I never told him. Not in a way that he believed. Not in a way that he could let in and hold on to. Everything he was to me. That he was everything.
Simon, Simon . . .
You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.
I'd wake up every morning and tell myself . . .
I'd tell myself . . .
"You live in fear! In denial!"
Simon is on the ground. His wing is bent the wrong way. His blood is red and abundant. It smells like brown butter. His hair is a mess, his face is in the sand. He doesn't know how much I love him. He's never really heard it.
I'd wake up every morning and tell myself . . .
"Simon . . . love . . . get up. We still have to save Agatha."
Simon is on the ground.
This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

“A lock is like a woman,” he’d said blearily. “You have to seduce it into giving up its secrets.” He was one of Per Haskell’s old cronies, happy to talk about better days and big scams, especially if it meant he didn’t have to do much work. And that was exactly the kind of muddled wisdom these old cadgers loved to spout. Sure, a lock was like a woman. It was also like a man and anyone or anything else—if you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I know I'll never love anyone like I love Baz. I know he's the love of my life. Of all my lives.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Even some of our cookbooks are banned. (Though it's been centuries, at least, since the Pitches ate fairies.) (You can't even find fairies anymore.) (And it isn't because we ate them all.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“What a ridiculous creature. Happy that I put butter on his sandwich. As if I wouldn't make the world spin backwards if I thought he'd like it better that way.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“You.. love me?''
Snow nods. ''Yeah,'' he says, ''of course.''
Like it's obvious.
It isn't obvious. It has not been obvious.
''You never said,'' I say.
''Haven't I?''
''No.''
He frowns. ''I thought- I mean... I've killed so many things for you.''
I laught. It might be another sob, but mabe it's just a laugh. ''What are you, a house cat? Am I supposed to know how you feel because you brought me a mouse?''
The corner of Snow's mouth twitches.
''I brought you a cow once, remember? And I killed that chimera for you in fifth year.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“This thing between us didn't start with us dating. It didn't even start when you kissed me. You're in me so deep, I wouldn't know how to dig you out. I may get fed up with you... But, Simon, I'll never get tired of you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I'm always holding on by a thread! I thought the important thing was that I'm holding on!”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I thought we had the sort of love that you can't set down or walk away from. An undying fire. The love you hear about in the old stories.
No one told Simon Snow the old stories.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Just know," he says, "that I'd do anything for you. That I'd let you do anything to me. There's nothing about you I don't want.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I understand that you've lost something— a lot of things— but you're still the same person. I know, because I loved you then, and I love you now, and I know that's not enough to make you happy— to make anyone happy— but you're the same person, Simon. You're still you.''
''It's enough,'' he finally grumbles.
''What is,'' I whisper.
''The fact that you love me. It does make me happy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“No flowers,'' He kisses my cheek. ''So noted, rosebud boy.''
I look up at him. ''That's what the ghost called me— your mother. That's what she said.''
Baz is looking in my eyes. ''I remember.'' He runs his thumb over my cheek. Then my bottom lip. ''My rosebud boy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Just know," he says, "that I'd do anything for you. That I'd let you do anything to me. There's nothing about you that I don't want.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Turn off that music!” Fiona shouts from the next room. “No emo shit in my flat.”
“I am emo shit. “This is electronic soul,” I mutter.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I know I'll never love anyone like I love Baz. I know he's the love of my life. Of all my lives. The Mage believed in reincarnation. Of a thousand lives stacked on top of each other. ''Some lives we squander,'' he said. ''And some we seize.''
This was my life to find love. The truest love. The biggest.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“And then he kisses me. I kiss him back. And back. And back.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I need to replace every single person in my life with someone more functional, is what I need.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“We can't come apart like this. We're not made of pieces that come apart.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“Is this what people do? Get as close as they can and then push closer? Burn each other's faces into their eyelids? Let each other into every gap? And then what? Then just tomorrow, and more?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I love you," I say. I may as well say it, I'm thinking it. It's all I ever think. I'm an "I love you" gun with the safety off, a finger constantly on the trigger.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“All I really know is that nothing I've experienced so far compares to you. Maybe that makes me gay . . . or maybe that just makes me yours.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“(I don't understand what this is. Why people do it. Why we stoke fires in each other. What are we burning?)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I saw a photo, you looked joyous. My eyes are green, I eat my veggies. I need to get her out the picture. She's really fuckin' up my frame.”
― Tyler the Creator

“Ask me no questions, mon amour , and I shall tell you no lies.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“I loved her. Despite everything. Despite the lies, the betrayal, the hurt. Despite the Archbishop and Morgane le Blanc. Despite my own brothers. I don't know if she returned that love, and I didn't care. If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion...-Tyler, The Creator”
― tyler the creator , Golf Book, Volume 1