bri > bri's Quotes

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.

I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.”
― Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is

“Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...

But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“How could I ever leave him, having experienced that kind of love? I will never, ever, leave him.”
― Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.”
― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death

“My heart knows your song, as yours knows mine. And I will always come back to you.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“The earth itself will remember us, Yarrow wanted to say. We've written our story on it with walls and towers.”
― Jared Pechaček, The West Passage

“Civilization is often a task that is only barely managed. But harden your heart and slow your blood. The towers of justice are built one brick at a time. We have more to build yet.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup