Anna (Literaria Luminaria) > Anna's Quotes

“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“How do you put yourself back together when the pieces permanently lost are the only reasons anyone's looking for you?”
― Dot Hutchison, Roses of May

“Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. - Lady Whistledown”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“I can live with you hating me, he said to the closed door. I just can't live without you.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that. - Evelyn Hugo”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You cannot live someone else's life. Your life is what you make of it. You have to decide what you want. - Contessa Fiorito”
― Rhys Bowen, The Venice Sketchbook

“I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances.

Well it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. - Ada Averley”
― Leila Rasheed, Cinders & Sapphires

“Love could end even though it was true love. Love could be false love, or the wrong kind of love, or love that came at the wrong time to the right people, or at the right time to the wrong people.”
― Leila Rasheed, Diamonds & Deceit

“War was eternal, but so was peace. Death was eternal, but so was life. Darkness was eternal, but so was light. Hate was eternal, but above all, so was love.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Eternal

“I don’t want to ruin you.

That’s a shame, because I fully intend to ruin you, Giles.”
― Virginia Heath, Never Rescue a Rogue

“The world may think you’ve lost your wits, and even you may second-guess yourself...but none of that matters because the moment we stop trying is the moment we stop fighting. - Gabriel”
― Hollee Mands, Blood Song

“Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Constant Princess

“The idea made her sick and scared, but so what? Why did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done anyway?”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“After all, isn’t this world a truly wonderful and mysterious place? - Maggie Lott Gantly Fitzwilliam”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Daughter

“We have so much time and so little time, and yet time surrounds us, always. Isn’t that so?”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Promise

“A woman wants everything a man wants.
- Annabelle Palmer”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Journey

“We think we know the truth. Our lives, after all, are our truth. But what happens if everything you know is a lie? What’s your truth then? - Violet Smith, Occasional Murderer”
― Amanda Pillar, A Court of Tangled Threads

“Taking another being's life was never something I'd imagined doing. Now all I could image was taking their souls to hell, even if it would make my own burn there too.”
― Blanka H. Madow, Mother of Pearl

“Why do you want to punish yourself so badly? Everybody makes mistakes, but if your intentions were pure, why do you see yourself as such evil?”
― Blanka H. Madow, Eye of Hawk

“People try to convince themselves they aren’t afraid to die. Masking their fear in hopes of deceiving Death. If they aren’t afraid of it, maybe it wouldn’t come for them. I didn’t think Death liked to chase those who are afraid. I’d also never heard people say they aren’t afraid to live, so why does Life leave us?”
― Blanka H. Madow, Honeycomb of Coral

“The simple human act of hatred ruined the magical bond I’d expected to survive a lifetime. I’d anticipated more from witches, but in the end, we were the same.”
― Blanka H. Madow, Bloodline of Chaos

“You are mine, little seer. You may not be afraid, but I am.

I lived for millennia, alone, in darkness, content and unafraid, but now... now I fear to live a single day without the light of your soul.”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“Same shit, day in, day out, with different and often hostile faces, and a failing social system that brought us all to our knees.

Maybe that was why I sensed death, or perhaps it was just a skill that comes with experience.”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“What are you?’ His grip on my arm made me hiss in pain, and I punched him, or I would have if he hadn’t grabbed my fist and pulled me closer.

His pupils widened when he pressed me to his body. I could feel his breath quicken, ‘Fuck. What are you, woman?”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“I always fell for the same type.

Powerful and dominant with a streak of violence in their blood.”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“The world stilled as Leszek focused his icy gaze on the gangster, no longer a demon of sinful decadence but the embodiment of death, as he snarled.

‘No one touches what’s mine. Including you... my friend.”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“Don’t you understand, Sara? I do own you, my Firefly. You gave me your consent, your promise, and my magic sealed the pact.

I was ready to tear the club to the ground, to destroy the underworld boss of Tricity for this... for you, so yes, I own you. You will not flirt with or touch another man for as long as our contract lasts; get used to it.”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“What in the living fuck?”
― Olena Nikitin, Magic and Medicine

“Hope? It wasn't worth believing it was real.”
― J.P. Feather, Crescent Phase

“Yes, time is taking the most important things - memories, events, adventures, and people, little by little.”
― J.P. Feather, Crescent Phase