haven > haven's Quotes

“For a moment he laughed, forgetting where they were, how depressing the backdrop. For a moment there was just her smile, the musical cadence of her voice, and the hint of flirtation. Then the world exploded.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Coriolanus could see that Festus was falling for her. Did you tell your best friend his crush was a cannibal? Never a rule book when you needed one.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Serena hadn't told Sydney to go home. She hadn't told her to run away. She told her to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.

Specifically, safe had become Victor.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“And after ten years of waiting, it was Victor’s turn, to get into Eli’s head and do some ruining.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“She said from the moment she met him she could tell that all he wanted was to find a way to strap her into Nebraska’s electric chair. But the joke was on him. Because she requested hanging.”
― Kendare Blake, All These Bodies

“What would I give, to be seen? To be carefully studied and perfectly understood? Would I let someone carve me up, if it meant feeling like I was loved? I knew the answer was yes, because it had always been yes. I had let others bleed me dry for the sake of feeling wanted, even before Dracula came into my life. I wasn’t any different from the Lover. Staring into a face I adored and finding only pathetic need and madness, my questions shifted. I no longer cared why Dracula had killed and changed me. I wondered why I had let it happen.”
― Kiersten White, Lucy Undying

“He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.
I meet his gaze and sneer. My arm is a steel band around his waist. "I choose you," I say. "Simon Snow, I choose you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“She hadn't been perfect. She hadn't even been easy. But she had been mine.”
― Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

“I was everything and nothing. Everywhere and nowhere. I felt myself light, like a cloud, like the vaporous mist from a kettle, or a hunt’s kill in winter, side ripped open and organs steaming against the snow. I was light, and darkness, tomorrow and yesterday, never, and always.”
― Kat Dunn , Bitterthorn

“You could cut me open and devour everything that I am. I would let you, I'd ask you to. But I have no idea what it means to you. What I mean to you.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In