Taylor Raine (Lantsov-Morozova-Calore) > Recent Status Updates

"Hope was a dangerous thing. Most of the pain in the world Jack had learned, was because of hope."

So, I only just learned that Caraval and Once Upon A Broken Heart are connected? Which order should I read them?

"'Hazel, there's no hell worse than a world in which I would see you grow old and lose you and then be forced to live another day.' The tears continued silently down Hazel's cheeks. 'You will always be seventeen to me, Hazel Sinnet. You will always be beautiful and headstrong and brilliant. You will be the last face I see when I close my eyes and the first one I imagine when I wake up.'"

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"She had expected tears upon seeing him again, but there were none. They had all left her over the past few days. She was drained of joy and sorrow alike, fully numb and fully hollow. "

"'Love is nothing but the prolonged agony of waiting for it to end. The fear of losing the ones we love makes us do selfish and foolish and cruel things. The only freedom is freedom from love, and once your love is gone, it can be perfect, crystalized in your memory forever.'

'He doesn't deserve to die,' Hazel said.

'Every one of us deserves to die,' Dr. Beecham said. 'It is only our birthright.'"

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"It's the lesson young girls everywhere were taught their entire lives-don't be seduced by the men you meet, protect your virtue-until,of course, their lies depended on seduction by the right man. It was an impossible situation, a trickery of society as a whole: force women to live at the mercy of whichever man wants them but shame them from anything they might do to get a man to want them."

"I promised myself that I wouldn't fully embrace his love and that I'd only love him enough that I would remain strong enough even if he hurt me...

So when did he embed himself so deeply into my heart?"

I want to read something that's going to tear my heart apart. Something without a happy ending because those aren't very realistic.

"Why does everything start with luck, and end with chance?"

Does anyone have recommendations for books with a villain/villian romance?

"Why should my self-worth be defined by someone else's abusive behaviour?" ❤‍🩹

I'm so depressed I act like it's my birthday every day.

Did Hera just kiss her?

"No matter what, I will find my way back to you. If there is water, I will build a ship. If our love is forgotten then I will fall in love with you all over again. If I must live as a mortal I will die in your arms and return in your arms and return home to you once more. No matter what Erebus, the Fates, or the universe have planned for us, I will find my way back to you. ”

"Someday, when I am nothing but dust and wind, what tale will they tll about me?"

I would do the same thing for my sister, without hesitation. In Violetta, I see my sister, and in Adelina is myself.

"'Sisters forever,' Violetta declared, in her tiny young voice.

Until death, even in death, even beyond.

'I love you,' Violetta says, hanging fiercely onto me even as my strength dies."

"Violetta's lips tremble with effort. 'You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others. It's hard. I know you are trying.'

All my life I have tried to protect you. "

She reminds me so much of my sister... <3

"Life is longer than we think, but I'm not scared of it anymore because I can rely on people that aren't my blood-related family. He and I will have to put in so much effort just to live like a normal person. That's the life that was given to us...

It took us four years to feel like we're growing as a person and a family. But we have each other to look at and realize how far we've come."

"It's taken us a while to get here...We've even had to over come death.
But I don't mind taking the long road. Because I know I'll always end up with you."

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'"Find the light that makes your lantern shine', she used to say. 'Hold on to, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.'"

Well, he must be the dragon, right?

"'Why don't you kill me, my little wolf?' he says.
'Yes, I suppose I could.'
I walk over to Teren, then bend down so my gaze meets his...I bend close to his ear, in the way he had once done to me. 'No,' I say. 'I will keep you, until the day I choose not to. I will not kill you. I will keep you alive. I will torture you.' My voice drops to a whisper. 'Until your soul is dead.'"

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