Jake Vanguard > Jake's Quotes

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”
― Trudi Canavan, Priestess of the White

“This lifetime is yours to make what you will of it”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend”
― Trudi Canavan, The Novice

“He had given her too much. He had given her everything.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“He’s a stranger, a lover, and my life partner. We have lived and died lifetimes together, and it makes me shiver every time that odd truth comes over me.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“Plenty of organisms live for a season, in order for those who come next to have a chance, Mayflies, daffodils, the octopus. We can accept that?'
'Well, we're hardwired not to accept our own demise. Daffodils are a lot more chill about it.'
'Okay, but we can be like daffodils together.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“I think what people were is less important than what they are. And what people are is less important than what they could be.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise

“Kindness is never a mistake. Somewhere in the heart it is always remembered.”
― C.S. Pacat, Dark Rise

“You’re a person, not someone else’s tool.”
― Freddie A. Clark, Umbra: Tales of a Shadow

“Umbra was back, a shadow reborn, capable more than ever to merge with the night.”
― Freddie A. Clark, Umbra: Tales of a Shadow

“Thank you for disturbing my owl, I’ll have to explain to her what happens when two or more people fancy each other very much.”
― Freddie A. Clark, Umbra: Tales of a Shadow

“The shadow she had raised, the monster she had created.”
― Freddie A. Clark, Umbra: Tales of a Shadow

“I’m bending the rules for you, my princeling. Don’t disappoint.”
- Letum”
― Jake Vanguard, Ouroboros

“My dear princeling of the Underworld, my Equinox—has no one told you about Chaos?”
― Jake Vanguard, Ouroboros

“He’s as much me, as I am him—and yet different.”
― Jake Vanguard, Ouroboros

“I won’t stop until I have my truth.”
― Jake Vanguard, Ouroboros

“My name is Morgan. One day, Morgan feared when he awoke, he wouldn't even remember his own name and no one would care.”
― S. Jean, Hymn of Memory

“Morgan didn't matter; only the Divine did.”
― S. Jean, Hymn of Memory

“How could he remember the dead if he could hardly remember himself?”
― S. Jean, Hymn of Memory

“I care more for you than words can describe.”
― Jake Vanguard, First Snow

“Everything with you goes wrong, anyway. It has from the moment we met.”
― Jake Vanguard, First Snow

“If you even think about building a wall or leaving, I’ll haunt your every dream,” they promised.”
― Jake Vanguard, First Snow

“I don’t want to be alone anymore. Please stay with me.”
― Jake Vanguard, First Snow

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Love can’t cure a mental illness.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four