Sophie > Sophie's Quotes

“I needed to prove that I, as a woman, could be better than the rest of them. That I too could belong. That I too could be free.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“Call her that again, and I will bring war upon you
myself.”
― Lauren Loscig, War Hour

“With nothing to stop us or hold us back, he could ask for everything. And I’d give it to him. Not for my plans or agenda, but because deep within me, I wanted him.”
― Megan Van Dyke, Captive of the Stolen Empire

“If she was the stars, he was her sky. If he was the fire, she was his frost. She captivated him. Completed him.”
― Hillary Raymer, All the Chaos of Constellations

“Just because you are born to a court doesn’t mean you owe anything to it”
― Lauren Loscig, War Hour

“I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“It is hard to keep one's wits when faced with a woman as beautiful as the sight of shore to a man who has been lost at sea.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

“I wanted you the moment I first set eyes on you. I wanted you in Fjalltindr. I want you now, and tomorrow, and all the tomorrows, Freya.”
― Danielle L. Jensen, A Fate Inked in Blood

“If you touch a single hair on her head, I will find a way to end your life. Slowly.”
― Hillary Raymer, All the Sacrifice of Shadows

“From the moment I saw you, I couldn’t look away. And it had nothing to do with your body or face. It was just you. Your energy, your determination, your strength. That’s all that I could see. It was blinding.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“Let’s go home,” she whispers into the crook of my neck.
I nod, but she doesn’t know that I’m already there.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“she looks at me like she’s mapping an entire constellation with her eyes.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“With hockey, it’s easy to tell the difference between the players who worked hard and those who eat and breathe hockey like it’s a part of their soul. That’s what I see when I watch Sage. Dancing is a part of her soul.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“I was certain that whoever ended up with Sage Beaumont would never be bored. The girl is a star, and as much as I denied it then, I wanted to be the one she shone down on—the one she broke out of the sky for, and the one that caught her.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“You don’t have to pretend that you’re okay, but I’ll never let you doubt yourself. There’s nothing that can dim your light, and if you think there is, I’d crush it before it ever touched you.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“I want you to be mine. If anyone in this world deserves someone who’s there for them, it’s you. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you believe you’re worth every bit of worry and care.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“Sage lifts her pinkie. “Elias and Sage unfiltered?”
I smile, intertwining our pinkie fingers. “Yeah, Elias and Sage unfiltered.”
― Bal Khabra, Spiral

“I hope you never change and never forget what you deserve— love that makes you feel like you never have to.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“The way Will and I love each other is like those beautiful flowers creeping up the trellis outside our home— growing, bending, weaving together, nurtured with care and nourished richly, so they can thrive and blossom, changing with the seasons yet always entwined even in the harshest months, on the coldest days.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“You saw and believed it when I couldn’t, what was true all along, from the moment I met you.”
I wrap my arms around his neck, searching his eyes. “And what was that?”
He kisses me tenderly, reverently. “That not only could my heart be loved and love you . . . it was made to love you.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“Any other day, I’d be stopped in my tracks, soaking in the glorious view, the vast beauty all around me. But not today. Because Juliet is here. And her beauty is the only beauty I see.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“With Juliet, I don’t feel self conscious— I feel seen.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“I love you,” I whisper. And I love that I don’t even know exactly when it happened, not like it seems to in my favorite stories, when it’s some grand epiphanic moment. Falling in love with Will has been like slowly wading into water since the moment I saw him, and now I’m saturated, neck deep in it, its power and beauty, our trust, and tenderness, and safety surrounding me.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“I think that’s who your soulmate is— someone whose existence blows your world wide open, someone who makes you want to be brave and curious.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“The most important people in our lives—because of how deeply they matter to us, how much of ourselves we entrust to them— it means they hold our heart in their clutches. That is terrifying. And some days the fear of how . . . exposed that makes us feel, all the unknowns it introduces, well, that fear is loud. But the love, the joy it brings you, the hope it gives you, can be even louder, the more you turn toward it, the more you give yourself over to it, the more you choose it. That’s how love gets the last word.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“When I spend time with you, I forget everything else that ever made me happy— the perfect night of games and food and laughter with my family, the unbeatable line in my favorite song, the most breathtaking sunset, the best whiskey I’ve ever made. And when I’m not with you, when everything else that brings me happiness is all that’s left, the only thing I can think is just how much I want to share that with you, how much I want you to share with me what makes you happy, too.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“I want to kiss her. Badly. I want to cup her face and take her mouth with mine, make her melt into my touch. I want to show her that I might not be the smoothest talker or the most capable romancer or the life of the party, but I’m plenty capable in other ways. Ways that could make her feel so damn good.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“And yes, romance novels are fictions, happy, hopeful stories. But I think they often capture very realistic human fears and hopes, and how the former often stop us from going after the latter, how love can make us feel safe and brave enough to change that.”
― Chloe Liese, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“For those who see the world as it could be: brighter and full of magic”
― Allison Saft, Wings of Starlight