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“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it. Don't take away from me the one person that makes life absolutely lovely to me, and that gives to my art whatever wonder or charm it possesses. Mind, Harry, I trust you.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Like the gods of the Greeks, he would be strong, and fleet, and joyous. What did it matter what happened to the colored image on the canvas? He would be safe. That was everything.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“had known one other young woman who was gods-blessed. No wonder they both possessed such unbanked fire in their eyes.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“He had known one other young woman who was gods-blessed. No wonder they both possessed such unbanked fire in their eyes.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“So you may look at me with resentment, Yrene Towers, and I will not blame you for it. But believe me when I say that there is no one in Erilea who loathes me more than I do myself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“Please do not give me this hope and let it crumble,” he said hoarsely. Yrene set the satchel and vial down on the low-lying table before the sofa and motioned him to move closer. “Good healers don’t do such things, Lord Westfall.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“The day I reached these shores, I cast aside that girl. And I will be damned if I let her reemerge. Or let someone tell me what to do with my life, my choices again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“Aelin would likely have laughed to see him now. The man who had stumbled out of her room after she’d declared that her cycle had arrived. Now sitting in this fine room, mostly naked and not giving a shit about it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“But surely every man is his own god: Fortune refuses her aid to those who merely pray, and take no action.”
― Ovid, The Fall of Icarus

“Love cannot exist without trust.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“But not him. I think that’s why she fell in love with him, against her best intentions. Rowan beheld all Aelin was and is, and he was not afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“but there was something to be said about the prospect of charging down Morath foot soldiers atop a horse named Butterfly.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“They’d walked this dark path together back to the light. He would not let the road end here.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“The almost-necklace of them from Baba Yellowlegs: gone. The shackle marks from Endovier: gone. The scar where she’d been forced by Arobynn Hamel to break her own arm: gone. And on her palms …”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“We’ll face it together,” he swore again. “And if the cost of it truly is you, then we’ll pay it together. As one soul in two bodies.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“We are the Thirteen,” she said. “From now until the Darkness claims us.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“She passed through a world where a great city had been built along the curve of a river, the buildings impossibly tall and glimmering with lights.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“She passed through a world of snowcapped mountains under shining stars. Passed over one of those mountains, where a winged male stood beside a heavily pregnant female, gazing at those very stars. Fae.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“She flung out a hand, as if she might signal them, as if they might somehow help her when she was nothing but an invisible speck of power— The winged male, beautiful beyond reason, snapped his head toward her as she arced across his starry sky. He lifted a hand, as if in greeting. A blast of dark power, like a gentle summer night, slammed into her. Not to attack—but to slow her down.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“There are no gods left to watch, I’m afraid. And there are no gods left to help you now, Aelin Galathynius.'
Aelin smiled, and Goldryn burned brighter. 'I am a god.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Let’s go rattle the stars.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“The world isn't in your books and maps, it's out there.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I decided to study the sky that night, spotting similarities between us. I was lonely in a way that I imagine the stars to be, observed by everyone yet too far to truly be seen.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“It’s funny,” he said, his eyes closed, “I’ve gone through my entire life alone, never feeling like anything was missing, but now that I’ve met you, Serena Rose, I feel like my life will never be the same without you in it.”
― Hafsa.A. Jawad, The Tales of Arcana Fortune

“If you ever touch her again, if you ever so much as look at her, breathe in her direction or even think of her, I will hunt you down and eviscerate you from your head down to your toes, until you’re trying to stuff your organs back in with your bare hands. And then, and only then, will I slit your throat. Do you understand?”
― Hafsa.A. Jawad, The Tales of Arcana Fortune

“From today on Serena Rose. My life is yours. If I lived a hundred lives, I would find you in each one, just so I could dedicate it to you. From now until I am but a note upon the wind, I am yours.”
― Hafsa.A. Jawad, The Tales of Arcana Fortune

“That’s the thing about love,” she whispered. “It can make monsters out of anyone.”
― Hafsa.A. Jawad, The Tales of Arcana Fortune

“Strange, that girls are so often told that the loss of their virginity marks a threshold between girlhood and womanhood, as if it fundamentally alters them in some way. It was not the sex that changed the girl forever. Not the blood that spilled between her thighs that shaped her. The blood that spilled over that marble floor, though… Those are the stains on one’s innocence that never fade.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night