Crowntide Quotes

“I want everything with you, Hearteater,” he had said. “I want marriage, I want children, I want to be standing next to you, holding your hand, at the end of the world. I want to live endless lifetimes with you, because one isn’t enough. Not for me. Not even close. If we live a thousand years—I’ll want a million more. I’m selfish, I’m greedy, I want you for endless eternities. We are infinite.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“I will rip down the constellations themselves to see you again.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“That’s my husband.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Fuck it,” he said”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“You love the Wildling part of her. The creation. The goodness. You resent that she’s Nightshade. You flinch at her darkness. I love all of her. I don’t recoil at her mistakes. Unlike you.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“I want everything with you”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“You have two hands,” she said. “Use them.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Thank you for caring about her as much as I do. Thank you for helping me get to her. And if she chooses you—thank you for saving her.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“I cannot be broken,”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“She doesn’t even have to be mine. She might never be mine”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“She was a breath of spring in the middle of winter. She was a guiding star in his dark sky”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“For you.
You are strong. Never forget.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Yes”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“And then Isla crashed into his life”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Oro knew what he had to do. He just didn't know if he was strong enough to do it.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Isla," Oro said, so gently she looked up at him.
"You are not someone to be loved by circumstance."
She let out a raking sigh. He leaned closer.
"You are loved on purpose. I promise.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Love had always been the only thing powerful enough to conquer death. To conquer fate.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“He would never know that true love was more powerful than anything because it created worlds within planets. And she had lived in her own world with Grim.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“A million moments hung between them, like stars strung on their own galaxy, a constellation of memories.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“You act as if fate is just something that happens to you. But you are the one who is crafting it. You are writing your destiny with every choice you make.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“They had seen each other’s scars, and made new ones, but in the process, somehow, they had also healed themselves—and each other.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“That was the thing about life, she realized. There was no perfect scenario. Sometimes, the ending was inevitable, no matter how many times she tried to change it.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Wildflowers bloom even in dead places. There are those who tried to bury you deep, but you are a seed. And you are only now growing.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“You are infinite, heart. Never forget.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“He wrapped his arms around her and thought this was how they always should be. Hearts beating against each other. Together.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“The bonds between her and them…they glistened like bridges. One glimmering gold. One the shade of night.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“She was the first sign of spring after a long winter.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Here…we have been able to finally be together. If only for moments at a time.” Shreds of their souls had remained in this cursed place, just for the chance of finding each other again.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“Some scars, Isla thought, weren’t visible at all.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide

“She’s a guiding star to the otherworld, then,” the thief, Zed, said. “Your…bond…is a map to her.”
― Alex Aster, Crowntide