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“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

“It is. I could spend hours kissing you and you would demand more.”
― Sariah Wilson, A Tribute of Fire

“But he didn’t say what he wanted in return. “And if you win?” A slow smile spread across his face. He moved closer to me, his face moving down to be a whisper away from mine. His lips were so close, but not quite touching. A feverish longing filled me. “My terms have not changed. You know what I want.”
― Sariah Wilson, A Tribute of Fire

“He let out a short sigh. “Lia, Lia, Lia.” I liked the way his mouth moved as he caressed the syllables of my name.”
― Sariah Wilson, A Tribute of Fire

“Instead of answering my question, he asked his own: “If I asked you to stay with me tonight, would you even consider it? Allow me to have one night with you?”
― Sariah Wilson, A Tribute of Fire

“Wrong place, wrong time. And I wasn’t bound by the contract yet. I reared back and punched Thrax in the face. He staggered backward, looking surprised. I had hit him much harder than he’d been expecting.”
― Sariah Wilson, A Vow of Embers

“My mother is a bitch. Plain and simple. She’s always had a chip on her shoulder, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. ”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Fuck, her voice is pure smoke. The kind you really only hear in porn videos. I suck on my bottom lip, biting back a groan. ”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Hola!” That may have been Spanish again.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“I can do this—language of love, all that. “A break.” I reach out, place my hand on his chest, and raise an eyebrow suggestively. “You know.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“And anyway, we’re not doing anything wrong. So what if Andrew looked at my legs? Looking isn’t a crime.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

“It felt perverse. Depraved. To use that intimacy to kill each other.”
― 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

“The priestess was one of the Ministaers—one of those idiots who spent half their lives staring at a stone wall in the church.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“It was time to fucking fight.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The attack was a near-perfect mimicry of the attack on the Moon Palace.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Let’s take our fucking kingdom back,” I snarled.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Loving Oraya was terrifying.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“You should have let the flower of your love remain forever frozen as it was,” she said. “So beautiful at its peak. So much less painful.” But there was no such thing as love without fear. Love without vulnerability. Love without risk. “Not as beautiful as one that lives,” I whispered.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King