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“You will make mistakes. You will make decisions, and sometimes you will regret those choices. Sometimes there won’t be a right choice, just the best of several bad options.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Lorcan reached out, grasping her chin and forcing her to look at him. Hopeless, bleak eyes met his. He brushed away a stray tear with his thumb. “I made a promise to protect you. I will not break it, Elide.” She made to pull away, but he gripped her a little harder, keeping her eyes on him. “I will always find you,” he swore to her. Her throat bobbed. Lorcan whispered, “I promise.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I have no interest in easy friends—easy people. I think I trust them less than the difficult ones, and find them far less compelling, too.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“I love you. I’m sorry.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“If you want it, I will do it. If it would make you happy, I will go with you. Is there a moment that a heart cracks? But a cracked heart was not enough, and I had grown wise enough to know it. I kissed him and left him there.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Are people so unhappy when they love?” “Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears . . . and she did not run away! .”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her . . . but that she could marry the young man when she pleased, because she had cried with me and mingled her tears with mine! . . .”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must needs pity the Opera ghost.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“for crying is cold comfort and one soon tires of it.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“then Ulysses again drew his mantle over his head and wept bitterly.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“there is nothing like the sea for making havoc with a man, no matter how strong he is.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“but my longing to know what you were doing and the force of my affection for you—this it was that was the death of me.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Antinous, your birth is good but your words evil.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“If he had been the most heaven-taught minstrel in the whole world, on whose lips all hearers hang entranced, I could not have been more charmed as I sat in my hut and listened to him.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth. As long as heaven vouchsafes him health and strength, he thinks that he shall come to no harm hereafter, and even when the blessed gods bring sorrow upon him, he bears it as he needs must, and makes the best of it; for God almighty gives men their daily minds day by day.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“You are insolent and cruel, and think yourself a great man because you live in a little world, and that a bad one.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The male I fell in love with was you. It was you, who knew pain as I did, and who walked with me through it, back to the light. Maeve didn’t understand that. That even if she could create that perfect world, it wouldn’t be you with me. And I’d never trade that, trade this. Not for anything.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I know you are tired, Fireheart. I know that the burden on your shoulders is more than anyone should endure.” He took their joined hands and laid them on his heart. “But we’ll face this together. Erawan, the Lock, all of it. We’ll face it together. And when we are done, when you Settle, we will have a thousand years together. Longer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“His shield bloodied and dented, his horse a raging demon herself beneath him, Chaol kept swinging his sword. His wife lay within the keep behind him. He would not fail her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“His name on her lips had been a summons he could never deny, even when death had held him so gently, nestled beneath all those he’d felled, and waited for his last breaths.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I love you,” he whispered in Elide’s ear. “I have loved you from the moment you picked up that axe to slay the ilken.” Her tears flowed past him in the wind. “And I will be with you …” His voice broke, but he made himself say the words, the truth in his heart. “I will be with you always.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Perhaps it is our lot—to never have the fathers we wish, but to still hope they might surpass what they are, flaws and all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“The king I wish to be is the opposite of what you are. He gave Maeve a smile. And there is only one witch who will be my queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass