Mandi > Mandi's Quotes

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“...it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I would beg,” he murmured. “For you, I would. You have fucking destroyed me, Oraya. Do you know that?”
― 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

“I’d spend a lifetime at the tip of your blade, and it would have been worth it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Never trust. Never yield. Always guard your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Let me make you the queen that you are. Let me guard your body, your soul, your heart. Let me spend the rest of my fucking pathetic life at your mercy. If I need to die, then let me do it by your hand. Please.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Because I want only you, Lilith. Whatever of you I can have. I’ll take one night. One hour. One minute. Whatever you want to give me. I’ll have it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“There she is,”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Time, Vale,” I said. “Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“It’s just… something being difficult is not a good reason not to do it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Fear is a collection of physical responses, I told myself.

Fear is accelerated heartbeats and rapid breaths and sweaty palms. Fear is a doorway to anger, and anger is a doorway to power.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Whatever you need," he said. "My blood. My books. My knowledge. Anything. It is yours.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“No, logic doesn’t matter in the face of fear and emotion. Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear—”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“I knew death even before I could name it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Death is what happens when you stand still,” I said. “Don’t stand still. Not for anything.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“You're lucky," he said, "that I have a soft spot for caged birds.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“Humans may believe that vampires don't understand what powerlessness feels like. And for many, maybe that's true. But those that follow me do. We understand loss. And we know that it is the worst kind of powerlessness.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“I understood it so painfully well. The desire to believe that something larger than you could save you, even after it struck you down again and again.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“A woman alone in this world sometimes needs to perform to make men take her seriously.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“This is the tale of how a chosen one falls. She does it screaming, clawing for her old life with broken fingernails. She does it slowly, over the course of decades. And in the end, she takes the whole forsaken world with her.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“We all have ghosts in our pasts, Iliae. We can’t give them the power to define our futures, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone