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“Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“So many mistakes in the end,” he choked out. “Never you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Never trust. Never yield. Always guard your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“vampires know better than anyone how important it is to protect their hearts. And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Then climb your cage until you are so high no one can catch you. Break its bars and make them your weapons. Nothing is sharper. I know because I did it”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And love, understand, is sharper than any stake.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Don’t fucking touch her,”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You are the most stunning thing I’ve ever seen, Oraya.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And he whispered, “There she is.” All at once, I realized what he had been doing.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Maybe our skin doesn’t scar the same as yours, but our hearts do. Sometimes they never heal.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Don’t be so quick to throw away your humanity, Oraya,” he said. “You might find you miss it once it’s gone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“So don’t you fucking dare stop fighting, princess. It would break my damned heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“He had done nothing but be kind to me. But I only knew how to fight.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I may be the serpent, but even snakes run for cover when hawks soared overhead.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“This was the stare of a creature who understood she was confronting death itself, and still chose to spit in its face.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I loved it—really, truly loved it—when they underestimated me.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I drank up Raihn’s touch like one last gulp of wine. A secret, shameful vice.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Love was a sacrifice at the altar of power.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“It was worth something to know you weren't alone.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You might destroy me anyway.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“He was on his knees, staring up at me. And that-the way he looked at me— was the first thing that felt real.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“It’s that unbelievable that I have respect for human life?” he snapped. “I used to fucking be one of them.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Just because it is in Malibu's nature to burn, so was it in one particular person's nature to set fire and walk away.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising