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“A book was all it ever took to hold him captive, make him forget to eat, to sleep, to exist in his own body.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides

“Book characters were dangerously attractive in the safest way. You didn't even know what they looked like, but you knew you liked it.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Sometimes,” Iris began, “I don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“The love of one’s fate. Sometimes I think about those words. It takes just one decision. It may seem small at the time or inconsequential. But that one small decision can change the course of everything.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“I’m going to take care of you. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you. You don’t have to be lonely, because you’re mine.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I am the thing in the dark your father warned you of, Princess.”
― C.C. Davie, The Pendragon Wytch: The Pendragon Chronicles

“You deserve to feel true love,” he said finally as his thumb began to trace the inside of her palm. Her breathing shallowed, trying to focus on the light show. “You deserve to feel adored.” His thumb stroked the inside of her wrist. “To feel pleasure.” It came to rest back on her palm. He paused. “To feel a love where they’re the first you look for in every room.”
― Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies

“You’re the most beautiful woman anywhere. But that wasn’t enough to say. To tell you that you look beautiful seemed a lazy, easy thing to do to describe the way you look. Because I can barely put it into words.”
― Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies

“He fixed her with his eyes as he laid himself bare. “I would have taken you right against that door. I’d have fused our bodies so irreparably that I wouldn’t know where I ended and you began. Drunk off your lips, I would have lost myself in you. I’m barely holding it together. Elara, one word from you, and I’ll unravel.”
― Imani Erriu, Heavenly Bodies

“I have lived a long time and I’ve seen a great many things, and I can assure you, there is no point in the future where problems do not exist. Where your doubts are no more. Your hardships gone. Where things are easy.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“I would set the world on fire just to see your face. That’s what I’m afraid of.”
― Rachel Griffin, Bring Me Your Midnight

“I would love to see you burn with splendor. I would love to see your words catch fire with mine.”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“She was vulnerable and honest when she should have been distant and suspicious. She should have protected herself. But she opened herself up like one of my grimoires, and I read every page, every sentence, until she became my favorite book.”
― Rachel Griffin, Bring Me Your Midnight

“Oh, she thought, horrified and fascinated in equal measure.
This is how villains are born.”
― L.K. Steven, Silvercloak