Blaine > Blaine's Quotes

“I had never been able to give any of them enough enough time, enough love. Everyone gave up so much trying to get more from me, and now I did the same for them. From the moment I was old enough to understand my eventual fate, I made every decision knowing this. Knowing that I couldn't be enough. Knowing that I would wither too fast, like a flower in an early frost.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“The smell of him surrounded me. It hit me, what that element of it I hadn't been able to place was. He smelled like the sky. He smelled the way air felt as it rushed around you, freeing and terrifying and the most beautiful fucking thing you've ever experienced.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“But it was unfair...to let him love me the way he wanted to, or to let myself love him with all the fractured pieces I could offer him. He always wanted more than I could or wanted to give him. It is, after all, a waste to love a thing that will soon be gone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“I don't deserve you.' His arm curls around my hips and he tugs me closer. 'But I am going to keep you all the same.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I'd spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it."- Raihn”
― Carissa Broadbent, Ashen Son

“We understand loss. And we know that it is the worst kind of powerlessness"- Atrius”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“You are more than your value to powerful men, Tisaanah, and those people will use you and throw you away." - Maxantarius Farlione”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Because if I allow myself to be angry, I will never stop.' he leaned closer. So close his nose brushed mine, so close I could count his eyelashes. And so close that I felt his warm breath across my face as he smiled, and said, with the viciousness of smoke and steel, 'Good.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“I wondered what that was like. To live a life so untouched by such ugliness that the very concept of it was startling."-Tisaanah”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“So maybe,' he whispered, 'I could be made for this.' Maybe I could, too. Made, or unmade. In that moment, I didn't care which.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds