Mabel > Mabel's Quotes

“As I watched him there, I didn’t see the most popular guy in college. The sex god. The illegal fighter. I saw the loneliest boy I’d ever laid eyes on. Sweet, confused, and lost. And I thought, bitterly, he didn’t even know that across the parking lot sat a girl just like him.”
― L.J. Shen, Playing with Fire

“You drive a hard bargain. Welcome to the dark side, Persephone. Leave your heart at the door.”
― L.J. Shen, The Villain

“Even so I gasped in surprise when our two bodies became one—warm and cold, light and dark, female and male, witch and vampire, a conjunction of opposites.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“It begins with absence and desire, it begins with blood and fear,’” I whispered. “‘It began with a discovery of witches,’” time responded, in a primeval echo that set alight the blue and amber threads that flickered against the room’s stone walls.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“As I am the end, so my lover is the beginning. I encompass the whole work of creation, and all knowledge is hidden in me.”
― Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life

“You’re beautiful to me, Jamie,” I said softly, at last. “So beautiful, you break my heart.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“When the day shall come, that we do part,” he said softly, and turned to look at me, “if my last words are not ‘I love you’—ye’ll ken it was because I didna have time.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross

“Jamie,” I said at last. “Oh, Jamie. You’re … everything. Always.” An hour later, we left the Ridge.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“We’ve also bought three billboards, one over near the Bay Pines VA hospital, the other on I-75, north of the first Tampa exit, and the third on U.S. 19 in Clearwater.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Sunset Beach

“Oh, God,” he said, and laughed without making a sound. “D’ye remember the first time I kissed ye, Sassenach?” I lay there for some time, feeling the bloom of sweat on my skin and the reassuring weight of him curled asleep in the grass beside me, before I finally remembered. “I said I was a virgin, not a monk. If I find I need help … I’ll ask.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a man, to feed them, protect them. But any decent man can do it. A woman …” His lips moved against my fingertips, a faint smile. “A woman takes life with her when she goes. A woman is … infinite possibility.”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

“Mabel, our nanny, who’d once been Pa’s nanny, joined us.”
― Prince Harry, Spare

“I’d been forced into this surreal state, this unending Truman Show in which I almost never carried money, never owned a car, never carried a house key, never once ordered anything online, never received a single box from Amazon, almost never traveled on the Underground. (Once, at Eton, on a theater trip.) Sponge, the papers called me. But there’s a big difference between being a sponge and being prohibited from learning independence.”
― Prince Harry, Spare

“don’t lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn’t care about losing you.”
― K. Bromberg, Fueled

“I guess you don’t love the broken in me after all.”
― K. Bromberg, Fueled

“My friends aren’t idiots. They’re just…” I tried to think of a flattering way to describe Tara and Nectarine. “Morons?” Ransom suggested unhelpfully. “Sheltered.” “From what? Libraries?” he spat out. “Your friends are a reflection of who you are. And right now it’s looking pretty damn shallow, Brat. You’re aiming too low.”
― L.J. Shen, Thorne Princess

“I guess what I’m saying is, let’s keep lifting each other up. It’s not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities I’ve had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in positions of power. If I’m ever in that position and you ask me, “Who?” I’ll do my best to say, “You” too. But in order to get there, you may have to break down the walls of whatever it is that’s holding you back first. Ignore the doubt—it’s not your friend—and just keep going, keep going, keep going.”
― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between

“I don’t want to make you forget. I want to make you remember. And I’m about to, Rosie.” He breathed hard against my skin. “I’m about to rewrite the pages of our fucking history, baby.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“That’s because you’re awfully mine.” “And what on Earth would make you think that? The fact that we slept together?” I pretended to laugh, but there was nothing funny about his statement. Or what we just did. “Nah,” he said, his hand moving to the left side of my chest. He placed it over my heart, and squeezed one time. “This thing right here? It fucking beats for me. You know it. I know it. Keep lying, Rosie. I’ll milk the truth out of you. One way or the other.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“Rosie.” “Hey, listen. I know that you like me…” “Like you?” My face twisted in abhorrence, spitting the words like they were revolting. Her eyes widened. I shook my head, a dark chuckle on my lips. “You think I fucking like you? Are you kidding me here? I don’t like you. I love you. Even that’s an under-fucking-statement. I live for you. I breathe for you. I will die for you. It. Has. Always. Been. You.”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“Whatever we were, we were toxic. A lullaby on a thoroughly scratched record that keeps hiccupping again and again on the line that you hate.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“His six-pack was the kind of glorious that needed a Times Square billboard to celebrate it.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“You’re my Delilah, Edie, and I’m your Samson. You want to ruin me, destroy me, strip me of my power, and betray me. I should stay away from you, but I want you too fucking much. And when it’s all over, when all that’s left of us is sweaty flesh and shattered minds and torn hearts, you will remember me as the man who made you cry, and I’ll remember you as the girl I had to break to stay afloat.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“I think you actually have to have all of your dreams come true to realize they are the wrong dreams.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Baby, Heaven doesn’t want me yet, and fuck if Hell can handle me, so you’re kinda stuck with me.”
― K. Bromberg, Crashed

“The voice was at once the night and the dawn and the stars and the earth, and every inch of my body calmed at the primal dominance in it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.” He picked up his glass, his gaze so piercing that I wondered why I had bothered blushing at all for Tarquin. Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“A shadow slammed into the earth before us, cracking the ice toward every horizon. Not a shadow. An Illyrian warrior.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“You do not fear,” Rhys breathed. “You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again.” I nodded again, holding his stare. “Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin