SH > SH's Quotes

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important.
Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.
I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn't seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.
"Blue," I say, my voice low.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“If I am to be her enemy, I want it to be because she loathes herself for wanting me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I wish I could live a thousand lives so I could fall in love with you a thousand times”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“As long as there is life, there is hope.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”

“Does that bother you?”

“Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“No one wants to fight for nothing.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“Easy. Moments after putting the willadonna in, I’m swept into the heart of the festival with a tide of Scholars. I count twelve exits and identify twenty potential weapons before I realize what I’m doing and force myself to
relax.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“You're just saying that because you're my- my-"
"Friend?" Is it so hard to admit it?" Laia glances upward, ostentatiously shading her eyes. "A scholar rebel and a Martial Blood Shrike are friends and the sky didn't fall in. Whatever shall we do?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A ​Sky Beyond the Storm

“I witness myself through his eyes: angry and cold and weak and strong and brave and warm. Not the Blood Shrike. Helene. And I would be blind not to see what he feels for me. I am woven into his consciousness the way Elias used to be woven into mine. Harper is always aware of where I am, of whether I am all right.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“Mark my words, Prince, I will be your undoing.” I lean in, ignoring the knife against my throat as I murmur, “Oh, darling, I look forward to it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“What do you want to call me?” “I want to call you mine.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I’m going to ask again. Who did this to you?”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“when his eyes lock with mine, I wonder why I ever bother looking at anyone else.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I love when you threaten to kill me, do you know that?” “Oh? And why is that?” The corner of his mouth twitches up. “Because every time you don’t, it only proves that you don’t want to.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“My pretty Pae, what have you done to me?”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“This girl might be the death of me. Literally.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.”
― Jane Roberts

“So, what, you don’t think I could steal from you again without you noticing?” “I think that I notice everything you do. So, no.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“And when we arent partners anymore? Should I fear for my life?' "That would be wise, yes.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Impress me, darling.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She’s confusing, captivating, and we’re completely wrong for each other in all the right ways.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Perhaps you may not need powers to be powerful.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Your smile.” I cut him off before his offer can tempt me. “I like when you truly smile. When you’re not wearing the mask of the future Enforcer or the prince, and you simply allow me to see you. It’s a smile I wish you would share with me more often.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I blame her for it. Blame her for cracking my carefully crafted mask, shattering it to pieces when she is around.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She's bewildering as much as she is beguiling. That pretty mouth of hers says one thing, but those ocean eyes say another. She pulls a knife from my back only to say she'll bury another one there. She's confusing, captivating, and we're completely wrong for each other in all the right ways. She's a flame, and I'm going to get burned. An ocean and I'm going to drown.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless