Eloise Archangelo > Eloise's Quotes

“The man is moody as hell.”

“I am not moody—”

“Yeah, bro.” Kenji puts his utensils down. “You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Aristocracy is just a fancy word for thievery.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“He had loved her enough to move mountains to bring her back, but he loved her too much to ask her to stay.”
― Julie Plec, The Loss

“It was as if her heart had some instinctual longing for misery and pain.”
― Julie Plec, The Rise

“If we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live?”
― Julie Plec

“The sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us.
The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Everyday it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in love with her? I think Adam's in love with her. Kenji's not in love with her, though. I already asked him."
Warner blinks at him.
"Well?" James asks.
"Well what?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"What?" James blushes. "No. She's like a million years older than me."
"Would anyone else like to take over this conversation?" Warner asks, looking around the group.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It wasn't necessarily that I wasn't a fan of fairies. Really. It wasn't that. It was that I wasn't a fan of being taken hostage by a group of fairies.”
― C.M. Stunich

“If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
― C.M. Stunich, Allison's Adventures in Underland

“When you fall in love, you disregard logic. Because logic and love are two sides of the same coin. Together, they make a beautiful sort of currency, but you can never look them both in the face at the same time. I like that. “Hey,”
― C.M. Stunich, Groupie

“I know love because I know the absence of it, you know what I mean? Like, I know black because I've seen white, something like that.”
― C.M. Stunich

“Welcome to the house of Gray and Graves where we never lie still and death is only the beginning ...”
― C.M. Stunich

“Sometimes pain is pretty, to the people who have too much of it,”
― C.M. Stunich, Havoc at Prescott High

“I’ve never heard someone say something as inane as “there’s a kettle in the cupboard” and have it sound like “I’m going to fucking murder you.” Impressive, I must say.”
― C.M. Stunich, Victory at Prescott High

“Why is that always the salvation of the wicked, to pray? God doesn’t want to hear their lies anymore than I do.”
― C.M. Stunich, Mayhem At Prescott High

“Pity does nothing for the one being pitied. It’s an empathetic agony to the one doing the pitying.”
― C.M. Stunich, In the Arms of the Elite

“I’d like to tell you that I died in epic fashion, guns blazing in the middle of a vast street brawl, or at least something scandalously hot, like falling off a balcony during the most incredible sex of my life. The truth? My death was cringingly mundane.”
― Eva Chase, Claimed by Gods

“The only person whose condemnation I’d have to deal with was my own. With that lovely thought swimming through my hangover-addled head, I drifted back to my bedroom.”
― Eva Chase, Crooked Magic

“I loved her. Despite everything. Despite the lies, the betrayal, the hurt. Despite the Archbishop and Morgane le Blanc. Despite my own brothers. I don't know if she returned that love, and I didn't care. If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“I don’t have much conscience to go around—I’d like to keep any weight off it that I can.”
― Eva Chase, A Study in Seduction

“We’re firmly a stab-first family going forward.”
― J. Bree, To The End

“Such a display of testosterone. The air is making me want to gag.” I chuckled and stepped between them. “You might as well whip out your dicks now and measure them. I have a ruler app on my phone.”
― Ashley N. Rostek, Embrace the Darkness

“I live Unseen. I'll die Unseen.”
― J. Bree, Angel Unseen

“I need all the chocolate in this damn building, Avery.” She side eyes me again and then pets my arm in a way that should have been condescending but instead was affectionate. “I hear drinking the blood of your enemies helps with PMS. I’ll ask Ash to bring us a gallon.”
― J. Bree, Make Your Move

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not-knowing, not-not-not-knowing? Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe" when they mean "yes," but hope you'll think it's "no" when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“I discover that absence has a consistency, like the dark water of a river, like oil, some kind of sticky dirty liquid that you can struggle and perhaps drown in. It has a thickness like night, an indefinite space with no landmarks, nothing to bang against, where you search for a light, some small glimmer, something to hang on to and guide you. But absence is, first and foremost, silence. A vast, enveloping silence that weighs you down and puts you in a state where any unforeseeable, identifiable sound can make you jump.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me