Broken Star Quotes

“His arms tighten around me, his breath cool against my temple. “I’m right here,” he murmurs. “What we’re seeing—it’s not real.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“He’s alive. Solid, unmoving, and steady in a way I desperately need him to be. I clutch at him like if I hold tightly enough, I can anchor myself in the firmness of his body and erase what I’m seeing in the Tides.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“But before it can escape, strong arms wrap around me, pulling me back into something real. Into something solid. Into him. Riven. My Riven.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“And I’ll take every single second of it before fate rips it away from me again. Because for the first time in days, she’s looking at me like I’m something other than a mistake. And for the first time in my life, I’m letting myself believe it.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Because I don’t care that we’re on a spectral ship lost to the Tides. I don’t care that she’ll hate me when we leave this place. I don’t care that I’ll never deserve her. Because right now, I have her.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“And then she’s kissing me again, and I’m pulling her under with me, and time stops existing.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“I’m still here,” I promise, and I press my forehead against hers, my breathing uneven, my hands shaking where they hold her. “I’ve always been here. And I know you have, too.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Because I refuse to lose her ever again. “I’ve missed you,” she breathes, and I kiss her harder, my heart pounding so hard it feels like it’s trying to break free before it freezes over again.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Sapphire,” I whisper against her lips,”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“And so, I crush her harder against me, my hands sliding into her hair, pulling her closer as if I can fuse her to my soul. Like I can burn this moment into my bones, so I’ll never lose it again.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“But she doesn’t realize that she’s the only thing keeping me from sinking, too.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“I can feel how much she needs this. How much she needs me. I feel it in the way her breath hitches as my fingers tighten on her hips. I feel it in the way her body presses closer, like she’s starving for something, like she’s trying to drown out the future with the only thing we have left—the now.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“The kiss is a battle. A war. A devastating crash of past and present, love and rage, heartbreak and want as her hands fist my shirt, her grip desperate and clinging.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“I don’t know who moves first. I don’t care. Because suddenly, she’s in my arms, and I’m inhaling her, consuming her, burning for her.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Then— We collide.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“You don’t get to decide that,” she whispers, her hands trembling against my chest, my heartbeat racing beneath her touch. “We’ve been through too much for me to lose you. Not to the Tides, not to pain and anger and grief, and definitely not to that empty throne.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“I barely register what I’m doing until my forehead is resting against hers, her warmth melting the ice I’ve been wrapping around myself for years.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“and then—gently, carefully—her fingers trace my arm.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“I reach out without thinking, my fingers barely brushing her cheek, cold but careful. She’s so warm. So impossibly, painfully warm. And I don’t know how to accept what she’s offering. I don’t know how to let myself believe in something that might disappear the moment we emerge from these Tides.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Because I’ve seen what you’re like when you drop the ice prince act and are just you,” she whispers, her voice trembling with something too fragile to name. “And that Riven is worth fighting for, even if he’s buried so deep I can barely find him anymore.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“She looks at me. And she’s beautiful. Not just in the way she’s always been—the impossible symmetry of her features, the way her blonde hair catches the celestial light of the Tides, and the way her skin glows beneath the shifting magic surrounding us.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Because if you were gone—really, truly gone—then I’d already be dead.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“How can you be so sure?” she asks.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“I don’t need to promise anything, because I’m not going to lose you,” I say, my jaw clenching as the ice inside me thickens, trying to hold back the cold storm of emotions threatening to surface at the reminder of how close I was to losing her in Eros’s arena.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Before I can think, I’m pulling her into my arms, like she’s the only one who can stop me from becoming the man on the throne who’s lost everything. She doesn’t pull away.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Because even with the hatred that’s been poisoning her heart for days—even when she’s recoiled from me like I’m something wretched and unworthy—she’s still the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“The real Sapphire. Not the one I’ve been drowning in guilt and grief over since that arrow pierced her heart.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“A silent understanding. A reminder that beneath the ice and steel, my Riven—the one who looked at me like I was his before he gave it all away—is still in there.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Is it really so impossible for you to understand that I care about keeping you alive?” he continues, the air growing colder around us. “That I care about you?”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star

“Don’t forget this. Don’t forget him, I think as I kiss him with even more passion, as if doing so will sear this memory into my mind so fiercely that when I surface, I won’t lose it like last time.”
― Michelle Madow, Broken Star