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“She would not be mastered by anything again. She was the master of herself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I am going to tell you that you will get through it. That you will face this, and you will get through it. That these tears are good, Nesta. These tears mean you care. I am going to tell you that it is not too late, not for any of it. And I can't tell you when, or how, but it will get better. What you feel, this guilt and pain and self-loathing- you will get through it. But only if you are willing to fight. Only if you are willing to face it, and embrace it, and walk through it, to emerge on the other side of it. And maybe you will still feel that tinge of pain, but there is another side. A better side.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“She was a wolf who had never learned how to be a wolf, thanks to that cage humans called propriety and society. And like any maltreated animal, she bit anyone who came near.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Some things are more important than fear.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“I am the rock against which the surf crashes.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“That's the key isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it...that's the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder." She gestured to the stars zooming past. "The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“All the things I’ve done before—”
“Leave them in the past. Apologize to who you feel the need to,
but leave those things behind.”
“Forgiveness is not that easy.”
“Forgiveness is something we also grant ourselves.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“She had been born wrong. Had been born with claws and fangs and had never been able to keep from using them, never been able to quell the part of her that raged at betrayal, that could hate and love more violently than anyone ever understood.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“That’s the key, isn’t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it … that’s the important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“I've seen what you can do when you are willing to fight for the people you love. Why not apply that same bravery and loyalty to yourself? Don't say you don't deserve it. [...] Everyone deserves happiness. The road there isn't easy. It is long, and hard, and often traveled utterly blind. But you keep going. [...] Because you know the destination will be worthwile.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Tragedy has a way of breaking gentle things and soldering the shattered pieces together in ways we can't control. Some, it remakes into stronger, more resilient creatures. In others, the pieces fuse before they heal, leaving only razor-sharp edges. I can offer you no other explanation or excuse for the way she's cut you over the years.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Life is too short to miss the lightning strike and too long to live it alone.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Sometimes I wonder if I just enjoy the beginnings, and that's why I never seem to move past them. The beginnings are what make everything romantic.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Sometimes the only way to keep what you need is to let go of what you want.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Without the potential for disaster, would we ever really know what we have?”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“It’s easier like that, isn’t it? [...] Never showing anyone who you really are. [...] That way if something goes wrong, if someone rejects you, then it’s not about you, is it? When you’re yourself, that’s when you’re exposed. Vulnerable.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“There is something about you. That you tirelessly study people. Figure out who they are, what they want, and then mold yourself into whatever shape you think will fit them. I’ve seen you play half a dozen different roles for half a dozen different situations, switching personalities like you’re channel surfing, and I still have no idea who you are.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I don’t want to be work. I don’t want you to feel that I’m work.”
“Somewhere along the way your wires got crossed. Your brain decided that you’re not worth people’s time and effort, and that if you ask for anything, they won’t just say no, they’ll also leave you. That’s not how love works, Elsie.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“It’s easier like that, isn’t it?”
“What is?”
“Never showing anyone who you really are. That way if something goes wrong, if someone rejects you, then it’s not about you, is it? When you’re yourself, that’s when you’re exposed. Vulnerable. But if you hold back … Losing a game’s always painful, but knowing that you haven’t played your best hand makes it bearable.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I find that people like me better if they don’t have to expend emotional energy on me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I’d give everyone the me they wanted, needed, craved, and in exchange they’d care about me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Knowing that the universe can be made sense of.”
“Made of patterns. Rules that can be learned, discovered, predicted.”
“Find them out, and you’ll know how to make the world into what you
want,” he says.
“Find them out, and you’ll know how to make yourself into what the
world wants,” I say in return.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or makes you resent your pathological inability to set boundaries, one of the two.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“An empty canvas to paint on. A mirror, reflecting only what others care to project. A bolt of fabric that can be custom tailored to.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“You fight and you thrash because this fated, deep-rooted thing you called love refuses to go down with a single shot. That would be far too merciful. Real love has to be choked out, held under the water until it stops kicking. That's the only way to kill it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Maybe my life had caught on fire, but that’s where I shined, right at the melting point where I could take the molten remains and reshape them into something beautiful.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“There’s not a lot of room for creativity when you’re focused on breathing.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“There's a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes its no longer safe with the person you trusted... It's not as clean or impersonal as a break or a shatter. Besides, those are easy to repair if you can find all the pieces. Truly crushing a soul - now that requires a certain level of... personal violence. Your ears fill with this desperate - rasping - gasp. Like you're fighting for air, suffocating in plain sight. Strangled by life and someone else's shitty, selfish decisions.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing