Nicky Doyle > Nicky's Quotes

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Dee!” he shouts. “The guy who snuck in your room last night is here!”
― Jamie Shaw, Riot

“People think it's the monsters who do bad things, but it's not. It's people like us. All the monsters ever do is live in storybooks. Or in closets. It's the humans who destroy things. Life isn't black and white, James. It's all fucking gray.”
― Saffron A. Kent, A War Like Ours

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I don’t want to wake up when I’m seventy-four only to realize I haven’t lived.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“And consort?” I whisper. “We aren’t married.” He fucking smirks. “I’ve noticed. But ‘girlfriend’ is missing that permanent tone.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Lifetime. Anything less is unacceptable.” Xaden slides his hand to the back of my neck. “And her full name for the papers is Violet Sorrengail. Two Rs.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I choose you. I choose whatever risk this brings. I see every part of you, Xaden: The good. The bad. The unforgivable. That’s what you promised, and that’s what I want—all of you. I can handle myself, even against you if I have to.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Did you love him?” he repeats. “Holy shit.” My hands fall from his jacket. “You’re actually jealous.” “Yes, love, I’m jealous.” He splays his hand over the small of my back and tugs me toward him. “I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands. So, when the prince of our realm walks into my classroom and starts talking to the woman I love with what can only be considered intense familiarity, and then has the audacity to ask her out right in front of me, naturally, I’m going to get jealous.” He brings our bodies flush.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Violet is the only choice I’ve made for myself.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I think I started falling for you that night in the tree when I watched you with the marked ones, but I began tumbling the day you gave me Tairn’s saddle. You’ll give some self-serving excuse, but the truth is you’re kinder than you want people to know. Maybe kinder than you know. —Recovered Correspondence of Cadet Violet Sorrengail to His Grace, Lieutenant Xaden Riorson, Sixteenth Duke of Tyrrendor”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Ooh, he used the wingleader voice”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Eyes here,” Dain says, and Sloane looks his way.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“They say ghosts don’t leave fingerprints. Whoever said that never wrote code.”
― Nicky Doyle, The Code We Break

“Survival isn't elegant. It's dirty. Teeth and bone and instinct.”
― Nicky Doyle, The Code We Break

“I used to think I was good at being alone. Strong, even. Independent. Now I realize I was just unattached. There's a difference between choosing solitude and having it forced on you.”
― Nicky Doyle, The Code We Break