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“I saw an elephant, and thought of you. I was in Paris, and you were not. “And you thought of me,” she says.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Don't you remember, she told him then, when you were nothing but shadow and smoke?
Darling, he'd said in his soft, rich way, I was the night itself.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She missed him the way someone might miss the sun in winter, though they still dread its heat.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Dine with me,” Luc says as winter gives way to spring.
“Dance with me,” he says as a new year begins.
“Be with me,” he says, at last, as one decade slips into the next”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“You didn’t come.”

“You didn’t call.”

She looks down at their tangled hands. “Tell me, Luc,” she says. “Was any of it real?”

“What is real to you, Adeline? Since my love counts for nothing?”

“You are not capable of love.”

He scowls, his eyes flashing emerald. “Because I am not human? Because I do not wither and die?”

“No,” she says, drawing back her hand. “You are not capable of love because you cannot understand what it is to care for someone else more than yourself. If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”

Luc flicks his fingers. “What nonsense,” he says. “It is because I love you that I won’t. Love is hungry. Love is selfish.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“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

“Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I’m not what you think I am,” I whispered desperately.
The Darkling stepped closer to me and said, his voice so low that only I could hear, “I doubt you have any idea what you are.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that it makes us weak.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Like calls to like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“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

“When I entered and shut the door, the Darkling gave me a small bow. “How are you, Alina?”

“I’m fine,” I managed.

“She’s fine!” hooted Baghra. “She’s fine! She cannot light a hallway, but she’s fine.”

I winced and wished I could disappear into my boots.

To my surprise, the Darkling said, “Leave her be.”

Baghra’s eyes narrowed. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”

The Darkling sighed and ran his hands through his dark hair in exasperation. When he looked at me, there was a rueful smile on his lips, and his hair was going every which way. “Baghra has her own way of doing things,” he said.

“Don’t patronize me, boy!” Her voice cracked out like a whip. To my amazement, I saw the Darkling stand up straighter and then scowl as if he’d caught himself.

“Don’t chide me, old woman,” he said in a low, dangerous voice.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Fight me as long as you're able.
You will find I have far more practice with eternity”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“His searching gaze singed her face like a brand. She tried to ignore it, but two impulses, don’t look and look, warred for dominance. Fear drove the first, curiosity—and indignation—the second.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Across the hall, in the safety of her room, every feeling she’d avoided waited for her in the shadows. Her silent accusers: fear, stress, shame. They crowded in on her until she could see nothing beyond the haze of her own failure. As much as she wanted to be better, to be stronger, Hal had gotten to her.
She slid to the floor in a heap and wept.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“If any feeling would kill her, it was this one. She was in love with Hal Cavendish, and he would never know it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Was it so terrible to need someone else? Was kindness such a horrible burden to endure?”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“What do you like to read?”
The corner of Wren’s mouth lifted involuntarily into a smile. Apparently, he appreciated the change in topic as well. “Guess.”
He considered it as he turned another page. “Theologians.”
Wren snorted. “Goddess, no. I’m not so boring as you.”
“Penny dreadfuls?”
“Suitably lurid,” she said, “but no. Medical textbooks.”
Hal’s expression grew puzzled. “I see.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“I deserve your hatred, he’d said.
No you don’t, she wanted to tell him.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Start building walls, and people begin to wonder what you’re hiding.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood

“I would burn a thousand villages, sacrifice a thousand lives to keep you safe.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood

“There will be, he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. I will make one.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood

“It's my own name I'm afraid of forgetting."
"Your true name is written here," she said tapping his chest. "Tattooed on your heart. You don't let just anyone read it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood

“What's your favorite color?" asked Sylvi.
"I don't have one."
"How can you not have one?"
Deep blue like the True Sea. Red like the roofs of the Shu temples. The pure, buttery color of sunlight—not really yellow or gold, what would you call it? All the colors you couldn't see in the dark.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Demon in the Wood

“Little red bird, let me go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm