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“Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“So many mistakes in the end,” he choked out. “Never you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“vampires know better than anyone how important it is to protect their hearts. And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And he whispered, “There she is.” All at once, I realized what he had been doing.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And then I realized. I realized that fear, when embraced, hardens and sharpens. That it becomes rage. That it becomes power. I would not die here.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Every Nightborn King, after all, was crowned on a throne of corpses.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You’re sweet,” she said. “Prickly, but sweet. In an acidic sort of way. Like… like a pineapple.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“So don’t you fucking dare stop fighting, princess. It would break my damned heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Nessanyn mattered. And the difference between nothing mattering and one thing mattering is a big one.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I’ve saved your life twice now and presented you with the head of your enemy, and this isn’t enough? You’re a demanding little thing, aren’t you?”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“That wasn’t how I’d imagined making you come for the first time,” he remarked. I stopped chewing.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Humans left little marks of their lives everywhere. Flowers in window boxes, toys left in yards, a series of shoes on the doorstep that painted the image of a family. I had never noticed these things before, and certainly never found beauty in them. Now, I tucked each one away like little secret gifts.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I loved it—really, truly loved it—when they underestimated me.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Vincent wanted me in the Kejari, wanted me to become his Coriatae, because it was the only way to turn me into something acceptable for him to love.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I do. I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet— me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I am yours.” His arm wraps around the small of my back, holding me steady and close. “You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I think I liked you better before you decided that feelings were something we need to discuss.”
“Sorry to inconvenience you, but this year the role of Violet Sorrengail”—he points to me—“ will be played by Xaden Riorson”—he taps his chest—“ who will drag her, kicking and screaming if he has to, into a real relationship with real discussions, because he refuses to lose her again. If I have to evolve, you do, too.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, remember?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You’re capable of hurting me in ways I’m not sure you’ve even begun to fathom, Violet. I might be skilled enough to land a death blow, but you alone have the power to fucking destroy me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited. “We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures. “You never let me have any fun.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I could torch him if you would like,” Tairn offers. “But you do seem attached.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Scratch her eyes out,” Andarna suggests. “Really. The eyes are the softest tissue. Just jab your thumbs in there—”

“Andarna! Use some common sense,” Tairn snaps. “The kneecaps are a much easier target.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I can handle pain.” I turn toward her. “I live in pain. I practically built a house there and set up a whole economy. I can take whatever they dish out.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Fucking Dain.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame