Quotes - Carrie Marshall (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 224

#1

“Be silent and learn something.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

#2

“This was what my spirit longed to do, to wander in strange lands. It couldn't stand being trapped in one body all the time. It had wanderlust.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

tags: spirit, wanderlust

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#3

“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

tags: hope

254 likes

#4

“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

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#5

“The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you—whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

446 likes

#6

“You are the light to my dark, Sunshine,” he said in a raw voice. His lips brushed against mine as he spoke. “Without you, I’m lost.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

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#7

“Careful, Mr Larsen, or I’ll think you actually like me.”
His mouth curled into a grin. “Baby, we’re way beyond like.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

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#8

“I would take a thousand fights with Jules over a thousand easy days with anyone else. Because I didn't want easy. I wanted her.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

tags: cheesy, love

199 likes

#9

“Darkness was always drawn to light, but I wasn’t just drawn to her; I was fucking obsessed. I would throw myself into her flame and let it burn me alive if it meant her warmth was the last thing I felt before I died.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies

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#10

“I wanted every shadow of his soul and every piece of his beautiful, multilayered heart. I wanted to pour into him every drop of light I had to give until he consumed me whole. Until I was his, and he was mine.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

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#11

“When I’m not with her, I wish she were there. When I am with her, I want that moment to last forever.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

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#12

“Consider it a lesson for the future. Pretty words and pretty faces don’t equal pretty souls.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

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#13

“She wasn't mine to take, but I was taking her anyway. Her laughs, her fears, her joy and her pain. Every inch of her body and beat of her heart. All mine.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

tags: body, heart, joy, laugh, pain, rhys, take, twisted-games, twisted-love

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#14

“I hated how much I wanted her, and I hated that she wasn’t smart enough to run away from me while she still had a chance.
Thought let’s be honest, it was already too late.
She was mine. She just didn’t know it yet.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

64 likes

#15

“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

1505 likes

#16

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

5781 likes

#17

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

2380 likes

#18

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history

2969 likes

#19

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: words

1843 likes

#20

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

1804 likes

#21

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

tags: desire, drunk, foolish, kiss, sick, want

2271 likes

#22

“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

tags: clever, con, devil, lie, sexy, wit

1215 likes

#23

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

tags: deep-thoughts

724 likes

#24

“Sweet Jude, you’re my dearest punishment”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

636 likes

#25

“Better the fool who remains silent than the fool who who speaks and demonstrates his foolishness. Better still, the one who listens carefully.”
― Paul Jenkins, God Complex, Vol. 1: Dogma

tags: foolishness, humanity

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#26

“After all, ... your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe.”
― Paul Jenkins, Curioddity

tags: belief, philosophy, vision

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#27