Verv > Verv's Quotes

“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Realizing you're powerless is a powerful moment. The violent act bolts you to the ground, crushing you. You're nothing but a bug beneath the heel of fate, the universe, a shitty situation. I suppose it depends on what you believe in. It's helplessness.”
― Marlow Locker, The Lazarus

“Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It’s strange what hindsight does. Takes all the layers of emotions and flattens them, either good or bad. It takes time to see the shadows as something beautiful. But of course in the present, hindsight is not possible. The presence is messy, scary, uncertain.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

“Even at its core, even without common experience, there is something universal about loss. I can feel it, deep as heartache. Something stirs at loss. Something awakens to it, like a knowing, like an understanding, that this is how everything ends.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe

“There was no deeper feeling of failure than to meet all the prerequisites of happiness and yet not achieve it.”
― Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe