Five Broken Blades Quotes

“Loving somebody is needing two hearts to live instead of just the one.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“You only become a sharpened blade by having the soft parts of you stripped away.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I should stop expecting hidden depth out of a puddle.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“A little off, a little too slow or fast, a little too early or late, and everything would be different. Life is timing, and timing is luck.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I have a headache, and she’s sitting across from me.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“It’s nothing to laugh about, which is exactly why you need to.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“You remembered after forgetting, and that’s just as valuable as knowing the first time,”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“We comfortably exist in the space of unsaid regret.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“There are mistakes that can’t be unmade, but you try your best to make things right.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“But that’s what life is. A little off, a little too slow or fast, a little too early or late, and everything would be different. Life is timing, and timing is luck.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“For now, we’ve saved each other. Tomorrow, we may stab each other in the back. Hard to say.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve been emptied, like there’s nothing more of the girl I used to be.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Null,” Mikail whispers. My eyes widen, and my stomach turns. It means zero. Zero witnesses, zero survivors.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“And then I want him all over again. Even after all this time. Even though he agreed I should die. Wow, I need better standards for the men I fall in love with.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I’ve already seen the cost of war. It’s too great a price borne by the people who benefit the least.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Sometimes it feels less lonely to drown your sorrows in a shared barrel of ale.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“One thing I do know for sure is that the gods rarely shine upon killers without exacting a price.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Loving somebody is needing two hearts to live instead of just one.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“How’d you get my name?” His voice has the rumbling of thunder, and I find myself following like lightning. But the innkeeper sneezes and I’m reminded that this really isn’t the time to be horny.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“The world will grab and pull at your humanity, try to strip you bare, but ultimately you decide whether to hang on or let go.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“As I attempt to cling to goodness, to kindness when I can, I realize she did the same. The world will grab and pull at your humanity, try to strip you bare, but ultimately you decide whether to hang on or let go.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“And I don’t think that even a god king can stand against six people who’d kill and die for one another.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Whoever said there’s no love without trust was deep in their cups. Of course there can be love without trust. Harmony without trust, however, is a different story.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“When Yuri said it was a girl, I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all. Because without hope, I know: it’s not her, you fool. It
can’t be. It can never be.
Because I killed her.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“He thinks I'm the villain of our story. That I'll betray him simply because I have before. Because I lie as easily as I breathe. And that all seems like terribly unfair character assassination to me.
Accurate as it may be.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“The second he touches me, a feeling rushes through me. Our hands fit together like a lock and key, but it’s more than that. He feels like home.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“-¿Y eso por qué?
Se da la vuelta y me mira a la cara.
-Porque te reconocería en esta vida y en las próximas cien.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Y la esperanza es como un cuchillo de sierra. Reconstruye sueños a partir de cristales rotos solo para que la realidad vuelva a hacerlos añicos. Es el castigo más cruel de todos.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades