Shanna Simpkins > Shanna's Quotes

“For your sake, I will continue—though for mine alone … I would not.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Those who know what it's like in the dark will do anything to stay in the light.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“There are worse lives to live. Don't feel sorry for me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“No heart can ever be truly understood. Not even your own.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“But I'm not a princess. I'm not the girl who gets saved.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“There is no greater pain or punishment than memory.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Queen Song

“You are only a shadow, and who looks at shadows when they have flame?”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I am different from what my world demands I be. And I am not worse for it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“You’ll find I’m remarkably good at giving orders, and particularly awful at following them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this," he hisses through gritted teeth.
Swooning words. A romantic declaration. I can barely stop my eyes from rolling.
"Save it for when we get her back," I grumble.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I am only human, and humans are not supposed to deal with days like today.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. —HRC”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I love your brother, Maven. You were right. You are only a shadow, and who looks at shadows when they have flame? Who would ever choose a monster over a god?”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on.”
― victoria aveyard, Glass Sword

“Thank you,” I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.”
“You want to thank me, Barrow?” she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. “Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn.” (300)”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Our paths may be horrible, but they're the paths we made for ourselves.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“If I could speak, I would tell Cal that I'm sorry, that I love him, that I need him. But the wind and the drop steal my breath away. I have no more words. His touch is achingly familiar, one hand at my neck, imploring me to look at him. Like me, he can't speak. But I hear his apology all the same, and he understands mine. We see nothing but each other. Not the lights of Corvium on the horizon, the ground ringing up to meet us, or the fate we're about to find. There is nothing but his eyes. Even in darkness, they glow.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“„Mare?“ The radio is in my hand before I can even think to ask for it. „I‘m here,“ I say, locking eyes with him across a canyon. „Is it too late?”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire