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“Love was only for the brave. It made you more vulnerable than anything ever could. When you gave someone your heart, you also gave them the power to destroy you.”
― Emery Rose

“I’ve slowly come to realize dreams are nothing more than broken thoughts we take to the grave with us.”
― Brandy Slaven, Zombie Queen

“Death was the ending we all faced, the path to that end was life, and I was going to have one. Finally.”
― L.A. Fiore, The Gathering

“Warriors always wear the blood of the people who tried to make them fall. Don’t be ashamed of what you did to survive or of who you had to become.”
― Candice M. Wright, Ricochet

“It’s not the storm that makes or breaks you. It’s not even the damage left behind. No, what makes or breaks a person is their ability to overcome. To crawl their way out of the rubble and choose to stand.”
― J.W. Ashley, Long Road Home

“The sun setting does not mean it’s disappeared, it just means its light’s shining somewhere else.”
― Anne Malcom, Beyond the Horizon

“Being truly beautiful is when you’ve known suffering, fought demons at the depths of despair and managed to claw your way out. Managed to smile again. Managed to laugh, to live, to love. That’s eternal. That’s you.”
― Anne Malcom, Beyond the Horizon

“To offer oneself for others, to do so without coercion but voluntarily…that is very strong magic in itself.”
― L.A. Fiore, The Gathering

“I hold Dove in my arms the entire night, my love for her an unbreakable prison that she will never escape.”
― J.L. Beck, Cruel Obsession

“They haven’t a clue about half of what happens in the world they live in, but the more ignorant they are, the more boastful they are about spewing their bullshit.”
― L.A. Fiore, The Gathering

“I would find her; somehow, I would find her again, even if it was just the twinkle of a star in the heavens, a reminder of how for just a little while I had dared to walk where dreams were made.”
― L.A. Fiore, The Gathering

“I promise you this: I will never, ever hurt your heart. I’ll wrap it up in cotton wool if you’ll let me. Entrust it to me, and it’ll be my honor to defend it. I’ll make it sing in your chest. And if it ever stops singing for me, if I ever stop making it beat a little too fast, a little too wildly, I promise I’ll give it back unscathed. You have my word.”
― Callie Hart, Roma King

“You rich kids like to pick on people who you think are below you, but you forget that we’ve had to survive more than you. We know how to fight, we play dirty, and we aren’t afraid to get blood on our hands.

I’m Rory Donovan, nice to fucking meet you.”
― R.E. Bond, Pretty Lies

“I hope you forgive me for what I had to do.
I had to tell. They had to know. Just live, okay?
And we can sort it out. Just live. Okay?
Love, PR”
― Debra Anastasia, Drowning in Stars

“Gaze got a future or I got one.
I picked Gaze.”
― Debra Anastasia, Drowning in Stars

“Daddy gave me this because I’m afraid of the dark and not because of monsters under my bed, but of getting lost in the dark. He said St. Anthony was a light in that dark, that he’d never let me get lost. There are monsters in your dark, maybe this will help keep those monsters away.”
― L.A. Fiore, His Light in the Dark

“Never took you for a coward.”

Oh. Oh no. I swung around. “Don’t even go there.” My head was up, eyes wide, and I was breathing in fire.

“Do not even go there, to that place where you think you can goad me for what? Running away? I live with this. You just got a visitor’s pass, but trust me, you don’t want a permanent residency. You train for your job but imagine if that same amount of work was what you needed every hour of every day just to keep breathing. Don’t call me a coward, dude.”
― Tijan, The Not-Outcast

“Jut then I’m stuck by a truth so real it might as well be a bolt of lightning: there is no greater evil than the one that cloaks itself in virtue.”
― Gena Showalter, Firstlife

“If we were the storm causing each other disaster, I wanted to be the most devastating one. If we could ruin one another, then I figured we’d leave a destruction neither of us would forget.”
― Shain Rose, Inevitable

“I want a mobster’s son with the face of an angel and the rap sheet of a street kid. I want the singer with a soft heart wrapped in barbs and trip wires of devastating wit to keep it safe. I want the billionaire’s unwanted son with eyes of ice and an endless love for his sister.”
― J. Bree, Just Drop Out

“People create their happiness, but they also create their destruction. Live the life you want.”
― L.A. Casey, Until Harry

“The saying goes that people come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. I'd hoped and prayed that Kiernan would be with me for lifetime, but in the end it was for a reason that he was sent to me. Kiernan changed my life. He changed me. He showed me that there was more to life then existing. Taught me how to live it, how to experience it, how to treasure it. He gave me hope, and love, and family. But above all, Kiernan Parks taught me how not to be afraid”
― Jamie Canosa, Falling to Pieces

“Loving someone didn’t mean destroying yourself in the process.”
― Stevie J. Cole, Over You

“Charming, go forth and spread thy seed fruitfully.
Juju, you've got a little something right..."
I smacked his head lightly. "There! All better.
You, Dreads, keep an eye on those balls before they get snipped.
Ah, and you, just keep it classy, dude.”
― Em Pitts, Witch, My Crazy Works

“When we cut away that which hurts us most, that which remains compensates for the loss.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Break an Undead Heart

“Lies don’t resonate. Only the truth cuts as well as a blade.”
― Hailey Edwards, How to Claim an Undead Soul

“I roll my eyes. “Do I need to hit you with a rolled-up newspaper or something? Bad assassin. Bad,” I add, waggling my finger at her.”
― Olivia Ash, Age of Dragons

“All we can ever do is our absolute best. All we can ever ask of ourselves is to be better than we were yesterday.”
― Olivia Ash, Blood of Dragons

“To be bound is a burden, but it is the actions we freely take that cause us the most pain.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, Stolen Songbird

“A Spectre. An assassin. A deadly weapon in the shadows, bred to kill dragons. That’s what I am. That’s why they hate me.”
― Olivia Ash, Reign of Dragons