The Night Is Defying Quotes

“One hundred and nine thousand, five hundred, and seventy-three days,” he said quietly. His eyes opened and fell to me; his hand cupped my cheek. “It was worth every second of misery in them to hear that again. I haven’t stopped being completely, madly, irretrievably in love with you. Whether you rule the sky or the land, I live for you, Astraea.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I’d come to learn grief was not something to heal but embrace. Every time it came back strong enough to take the light and pull me to my knees, I would thank it and treasure the days I had to carry on for both of us.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“would you be willing to condemn your world for it? Because I would. I would lie with you and watch every star plummet to land,” he said in a gravelly whisper, leaning in until his breath teased my throat. “This world would fall to darkness and I would spend everyday content never to see the daylight, because I have this. You. My brightest star.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“When I said I had to leave this realm it wasn’t me giving up. I’m determined to find another way to rewrite our ending. Over and over. Through time and space, finding you in every story and living the agony until I find the one where we were triumphant. I refuse to give up on us. I refuse to accept that there is no having you. You’re mine, Astraea.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“One hundred and nine thousand, five hundred, and seventy-three days. It was worth every second of misery in them to hear that again. I haven’t stopped being completely, madly, irretrievably in love with you. Whether you rule the sky it the land, I live for you, Astrea.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I’d choose destruction every time if it meant having you.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I will be your shield, your shadow, your weapon. I will be whatever you ask of me.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“Your heart has always called to darkness but you don’t get to become it. This is the only time I’ll truly ask: let me go, Astraea. Condemn me, and reign like the stars eternal without me.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“This is your world, love. I’m just your villain to take it back for you.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I’m on my knees for you. I might never be the hero, but I am the villain for you.” “My villain,” she mused with a pleased smile. “Always.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“You shouldn’t find safety with your enemy,” he said. “I shouldn’t fall for him either.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I’m saying that somewhere along a measure of time I forgot to keep counting, that I grew to want to love you more than I wanted you dead. Then perhaps I wanted you dead to stop fucking loving you. Because I can’t stop. And I didn’t realize it was a root taking hold of me all this time, growing deeper and deeper. It’s terrible, and something I wish I could rip free, but in all my capabilities this isn’t one of them. But you can. So tell me you don’t want the bond. Rip yourself free from me, Astraea.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“Oh, my Starlight. I know exactly what I’ve done. You came to me. You gave me no choice.” “You could have let me die.” “No. You made yourself mine the moment you got yourself captured in Astrinus. Your life, your death, and everything that exists beyond. You can’t escape me now. Try realms, try time, I’ll come for you. Or better yet, I’ll wait for you because you can’t continue to deny that you’ve been drawn to me too.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“If I wanted you dead you would have been,” she said. “And if I wanted to love you? Would you have let me?”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I once held you in my arms as you fucking died, Astraea. As you left and took my heart with you and the only kernel of good ever to reside in my soul. I can’t do it again—I won’t do it again. So no, a blood bargain won’t keep me from coming for you. There is nothing I wouldn’t destroy in my path to you when you are in danger. I was too late once; I won’t be again.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“Run, Starlight. Run far and fast. But when I catch you … you’d best be ready for it.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“You are absolutely magnificent,” he said. “And brave, and resilient. I may be the villain to all those we face today, but I will never be yours. Even if you choose to see me that way.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“you’re something I’d trek through hell and back to have.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I want you,” I said, drunk on the assault of his mouth on mine, my jaw, my neck. I wanted him to bite. “You have me,” he said in a low, gravelly murmur. “For every call. Every whim. Every minor inconvenience, I am yours.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“Oh, Starlight,” Nyte sighed. “I might not be able to truly die but you’re certainly making sure I never forget what it feels like.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“What if we’re always destined to end up there … on opposite sides of a battlefield?” I asked quietly. Nyte’s lips pressed to the top of my head. “Then my vow is to never give up trying to rewrite the stars.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“There’s only one way we end and that’s if the world ends with us. Even then, I’ll find you in the next and happily collapse that too if that’s to be our never-ending fate. I’d choose destruction every time if it meant having you.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“This world would fall to darkness and I would spend everyday content never to see the daylight, because I have this. You. My brightest star.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“If I asked you to stay? Stay in this realm with me?” My heart thundered at the fear of rejection. “I’d only ask one thing back … would you be willing to condemn your world for it? Because I would. I would lie with you and watch every star plummet to land,”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“This is the only time I warn you,” he said with deceiving calm. “Insult me, attack me, think whatever you want of me. But never question my intentions toward Astraea again.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying