augustine

“Have you decided to stay?"
"I thought you already heard what I was thinking,"
"I want you to say it out loud.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“How can I make you understand,' he growled, 'you and I together don't end well. We just end.'

'How can you know that if you haven't even tried?'

'Try?' Jacks laughed and the sound was awful.

'This isn't something you try at, Evangeline.'

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'This is something that gets one chance to be right or wrong, and if you're wrong, there's no trying again. There is nothing.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“You're not here to hurt me.'

'You don't know that.' A muscle ticked in his jaw. 'This morning I nearly tossed you over the side of a bridge.'

'You also just killed someone to save my life.'

'Maybe I just enjoy killing people.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Sometimes the women pitied me, saying that at least they'd known real life, and I was very jealous of them, but they died, as I am about to die, and what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men