Spearcrest Saints Quotes

“And as for the value I give her, it’s immeasurable. She is worth dying for, living for. Killing for, probably, or at least poisoning for. She is worth every academic failure, every restless night, all the suffering and yearning and hopelessness. She isn’t worth everything. She is everything.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“love you atrociously.” He smiles, the hue of desire in his expression shifting, darkening into a sort of yearning melancholy. “I love you with every atom of my being, and I love every atom of yours. I love you desperately, like a starving man. I love you to distraction. And I think maybe you love me too, Theodora Dorokhova. You just aren’t quite ready to say it yet.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“My beautiful nemesis. My formidable adversary. My dearest rival.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“My victories only ever taste like victories when they’re won against you, Theodora.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“...beauty for me is a quiet girl with a brilliant mind, a debate team captain with a calm voice and textbooks covered in color coded annotations. Beauty for me is a girl with cold skin and a faraway gaze, a girl who loves children's books but rarely laughs. Beauty for me is sage green silk and soft white wool and forget me not eyes. My definition of beauty starts and ends with Theodora. And as for the value I give her, its immeasurable. She is worth dying for, living for. Killing for probably, or at least poisoning for. She is worth every academic failure, every restless night, all the suffering and yearning and hopelessness. She isn't worth everything. She is everything.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I would marry her because her mind and soul are worth more than all the money in the world, all the stars in the fucking sky.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“How?” “Love me like I love you,” he says. “In every way possible. With your mind and your heart and your soul.” I know then I’m going to kiss him. It’s inevitable, isn’t it?”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“But there’s no chance I can possibly be truthful for this particular assessment. Because if I was, I would need to admit that beauty for me is a quiet girl with a brilliant mind, a debate team captain with a calm voice and textbooks covered in colour-coded annotations. Beauty for me is a girl with cold skin and a faraway gaze, a girl who loves children’s books but rarely laughs. Beauty for me is sage-green silk and soft white wool and forget-me-not eyes. My definition of beauty starts and ends with Theodora.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I absolutely, undeniably, inexorably love you.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I’m not setting my sights on anyone. Theodora is the only one worthy of my desire. I couldn’t set my sights on anybody else if I tried. She and I are fated somehow.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I don’t need a girlfriend,” I tell her in my most dignified tone. “I have a beautiful rival instead.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“Who else in Spearcrest—in this world, probably—would make me feel the way she makes me feel? The thrill of her expression when I solve a problem first in maths class? The slight pinch of her lips when my name gets called out before hers as our teacher hands us our marked essays back? The satisfaction of being invited to the sixth form lectures when she’s not?”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“His soul and my soul sit across the chessboard of life, and everything between us is the game, each move real and urgent. Nothing with him is a shadow of a thing. It’s all real.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I’ll pick up every highlighter and pen you drop. I’ll hold every door open and carry all your books. Just ask me, Theodora, and I’ll do it.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I adore you,” he breathes in my ear, his lips against my hair. “I adore everything about you, and I want you, I want you laughing and victorious and happy, I want you kiss-drunk and wet and breathless with pleasure. I want you so much I could die from the hunger of it.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“Don’t look so surprised. You’re quite intelligent, and for all your angelic features and forget-me-not eyes, you’re not naive either. You know perfectly well that I love you.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints