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“Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from you.’” He trailed his fingers down my arm in slow, torturous strokes. My head fell back on his shoulder, my eyes fluttering closed, as his lips continued to move against my neck. “‘Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“Why the fuck is everyone in this kingdom trying to murder my wife?”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“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

“Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“Perhaps, she thought, that’s what love does. It’s not there to make you feel special. It’s to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie—two words for the same thing.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

“the world was too big, too full of splintered dreams.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“The world was waiting--wide open and hers for the taking.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He had kissed her twice now. Outrageous! Indefensible! Would he kiss her in the sunlight next time? My goodness, she hoped not! Would he hold her close, his hand stroking her back as if she was something to be handled with care, cherished? Heaven forbid!”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Marry me," Ned whispered to Cecilia.
"Over Freddy's dead body," she muttered in reply.
"This afternoon then," Ned said. "The poor chap is about to expire from hysterics.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“There was, Aren thought, nothing the Great Beyond could offer that would be more perfect than her.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, The Bridge Kingdom

“You collect scars because you want proof that you are paying for whatever sins you've committed. And I know this because I've been doing the same damn thing for two hundred years. Tell me, do you think you will go to some blessed Afterworld, or do you expect a burning hell? You're hoping for hell--because how could you face them in the Afterworld? Better to suffer, to be damned for eternity and--”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Her heart was still a little heavy, but she'd decided carrying it around would only maker her stronger.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Stop flashing your fangs. I’m the only one who gets to bite her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Cassian leaned to whisper in her ear, “The first time I saw that look on your face, you were still human. Still human, and I nearly went to my knees before you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“I am worthless and I am nothing, Nesta nearly said. She wasn’t sure why the words bubbled up, pressing on her lips to voice them. I hate everything that I am. And I am so, so tired. I am tired of wanting to be anywhere but in my own head.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Queen Elena put her hands on Celaena’s shoulders and kissed her forehead. “Courage of the heart is very rare,” she said with sudden calm. “Let it guide you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“There was something great and deadly concealed within her, and he didn’t like it. He’d be ready—when the time came, he’d be waiting. He just wondered which one of them would survive.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You could be different,” Elena said quietly. “You could be great. Greater than me—than any of us.” Celaena opened her mouth, but no words came out. Elena took a step toward her. “You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“If this woman tacked the word “please” onto any request, he would find a way to fulfill it. Build me a palace, please. How many floors, baby?”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“His lips twitched, his hand rubbing circles in the center of her back. "You want to dance some more, or can I bring you home?"

"Where is home?"

"With me.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“And when her face transformed with pure joy and she waved enthusiastically, Brendan knew he loved her.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“He'd ridiculed her at the outset. Now he wanted to fight off anything that made her sad.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“I know they don't require a picture to keep your account active. This was about making you smile, not me," His gaze fell to her mouth, taking its time finding her eyes again. "Well worth it.”
― Tessa Bailey, It Happened One Summer

“We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fallen apart in my life, I have gone back to those things that do not change. Nothing in the universe can ever change those facts. He loves me. I am not at the mercy of chance.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains