A.Akhtar > A.Akhtar's Quotes

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“He was on the ice once more, and somewhere he could hear the wolves howling. But this time, he knew they were welcoming him home.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“To stand in front of a person who is your whole world and be told you are not enough. You are not the choice. You are a shadow to the person who is your sun.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“We are all monsters, full of perversities and violence. At least you and I accept this and have the power and intelligence to do something.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I know every corner of you savage heart, your capacity for cruelty, your caprice, and yet I love you still. I would have you right here if you would let me. Fear you? I exalt you. Remember what I told you?" He laughed, tightening his grip on her hair. "You could burn me a thousand times, and I would still want you for my own.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“If you live, then I live. If you die, then I am no longer.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“You are the Lightbringer, and our world is growing dark.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“A monster who kissed her one moment and crafted abominations the next. And she herself, the most monstrous of them all.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Come, Simon!" Corien howled, jubilant. "How long can you stand to watch her like this? Hours? Days? Weeks? I am ageless. I am infinite. I can burn her until the world falls apart around us!”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“And over it stood Simon in imperial black, his scarred face streaked with blood and grime. His expression was furious. A dark cloak lined with crimson fell to his knees, and across his torso cut a red sash like a bloody smile.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I said I wanted you dead," Roma confirmed. "I never said I didn't love you”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“he would have burned the damn city to the ground just to keep her unharmed”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“they were once as familiar as halves of the same soul”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Nothing in this world is complicated, only misunderstood.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“because I cannot bear to see you hurt, even when I am the one hurting you most.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Of course it was hard for him to hurt her now. It went against every fiber of his being. Every cell, every nerve—they had grown into place with one mantra: protect her, protect her.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“You are a liar, Juliette Cai," he said. "You lied to me until I wanted you dead”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“They had always been two mirrored souls, the only ones who understood the other in a city that wanted to consume them whole, and now they were joined, mightier when together.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Fight dirty but fight bravely. Do not fight those who cannot understand what it means to fight. Nurse had known exactly what working for the Scarlet Gang entailed. This man had pulled at a hint of glitter in the ground expecting a Nugget of gold and disturbed a hornet's nest instead.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“what was love if all it did was kill?”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“I love you so much it feels like it could consume me.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“He wanted to scream and rage. He wanted to scream at Juliette until his lungs grew hoarse. Only he knew that if he screamed I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I still love you so much that I hate you for it.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
― Novalis

“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

“Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I missed you," I whisper against his skin and feel dizzy with the intimacy of the admission, feel more naked than when he could see every inch of me. "In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you."
"My sweet nemesis, how glad I am that you returned.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”

“So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”

“Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

“I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing