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“Then may Death send his worst. Cold to freeze the love in my heart. Fire to burn my memories to ash. Wind to force me through the gates. Time to wear my loyalty away. I'll wait for you at Death's gate.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“My soul was an old horse
Offered for sale in twenty fairs...
I cried, 'Who will bid me half a crown?'
From their rowdy bargaining
Not one turned. 'Soul,' I prayed,
'I have hawked you through the world
Of Church and State and meanest trade.
But this evening, halter off,
Never again will it go on.
On the south side of ditches
There is grazing of the sun.
No more haggling with the world....'
As I said these words he grew
Wings upon his back. Now I may ride him
Every land my imagination knew.”
― Patrick Kavanagh

“The love I have for you is a love that knows no bounds.
In times of joy as well as sadness, in sickness, and in health,
I will love you as my equal, and protect you above all else.
I will share with you my truest feelings, and when you speak, I will listen.
I will catch you when you fall. And when you soar, I’ll help you reach your greatest heights.
I am and will always be your loving husband.”
― Alec Lightwood & Magnus Bane

“Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of Roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty Lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and Ivy buds,
With Coral clasps and Amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.

The Shepherds’ Swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.”
― Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I carried the books to my room and read through the night. I loved the fiery pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, but there was a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: "It is a subject on which nothing final can be known." The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.

Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward. Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say: whatever you are, you are woman.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“But what is grief, if not love perservering”
― Vision

“No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“A challenge and an insult all wrapped into one. My specialty.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“There are different kinds of fathers. Those who love unconditionally, those who love on condition, and those who never love at all.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“If the hero dies, they call
it a Greek tragedy,
but when the heroine dies,
it's a romance.

Now I only want stories
where girls are the heroes,
and our fates are neither written in the stars nor held
in the palm of a man's hand,
but are entirely our own.”
― Kyrie McCauley, We Can Be Heroes

“I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue.

Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each letter.

Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become sacred to my lips.

A name I won’t throw around lightheartedly or repeat without deep thought.

And if ever I speak of you, I use the English language to describe who you were to me. You are nameless, because those letters grouped together in that familiar form….. carries too much meaning for my capricious heart.”
― Jamie Weise

“Apparently, asking him to commit murder was a deal breaker.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“went through a red light. While I don’t endorse breaking the law, there are mental health benefits to doing so. A psychological study demonstrated that cheating or breaking rules results in an unexpectedly good mood afterward. As well as a brief sense of freedom from all rules. So perhaps we should all bend the rules sometimes.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“For that reason, rejection is experienced by human beings as being incredibly painful. Studies using functional MRI have shown the same areas of the brain become activated both during rejection and during real physical pain.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“A psychological study demonstrated that cheating or breaking rules resulted in an unexpectedly good mood afterward. As well as a brief sense of freedom from all rules. So perhaps we should all bend the rules sometimes.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Before, even two weeks ago, if Henry had said these things to me, my mouth would've gone dry, my stomach would've clenched, and I would've broken out in a cold sweat. But now... I understand. I understand him. He's not trying to control me or change me or anglerfish me. He's just... telling me he knows me.”
― sarah ready, Switched

“How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer. And nobody who answers ever tells the truth. “I’m fine, Paige.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Human beings don’t deal well with rejection. Back when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, being ostracized from a tribe was akin to a death sentence. For that reason, rejection is experienced by human beings as being incredibly painful. Studies using functional MRI have shown the same areas of the brain become activated both during rejection and during real physical pain.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

“Regret is a funny emotion. By definition, you can’t experience it until after the fact.”
― Melinda Leigh, Dead Against Her

“Jessica never understood the power of gossip until she worked at the nail salon. It gave people who had nothing to talk about a reason to engage with one another, to create closeness through the exchange of closely guarded information.”
― Mai Nguyễn, Sunshine Nails

“Who gets to decide what hard work looks like? Who decides what ideas are the best? And what of privilege and luck, as if they didn't overwhelmingly shape the trajectory of our lives?”
― Mai Nguyễn, Sunshine Nails

“Jessica wondered what that must be like, to be such a devoted wife who sacrificed herself for her husband like it was an uncontrollable tic. What was it that made her do it time and time again? Was it love? Loyalty? Pride? Perhaps this was the secret to a lasting marriage. If so, then maybe it was a good thing she never married Brett. She had zero desire to give up so much of herself.”
― Mai Nguyen, Sunshine Nails

“You think you know hardship, but men have a gift for finding new ways to make women suffer.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“She might be a conversa or a morisca. Most of the magic that survived in Spain came from Morvedre or Zaragoza or Yepes. But who knew how long any of it would last, lost to exile and the Inquisition, magic bleeding away with the bodies of Jews and Muslims, their poetry silenced, their knowledge buried in the stones of synagogues made into churches, the arches of Mudéjar palaces. The tolerance for mysterious texts like the Picatrix would be stamped out by the Pope, and King Philip would follow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“There are different kinds of suffering, Valentina thought. The kind that takes you by surprise and the kind you live with so long, you stop noticing it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“You are not in danger of dying from hard work. You think you know hardship, but men have a gift for finding new ways to make women suffer. If they don't charge you with witchcraft, you'll be branded a Judaizer. You are walking to the pyre and whistling while you do it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar