A Requiem for Fallen Stars Quotes

“I will not cower. I will not yield. I will not falter.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Then your wish is my command, and I am yours to instruct. I will bring down the stars and string them into jewelry if you wish me to. All you have to do is ask.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Maybe the past isn’t meant to be carried around forever—perhaps the past is meant to be nothing more than a fleeting thing. To pass through me like warm wind through open hands. I don’t have to forget it, but I don’t have to bear the weight of it forever, either.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Remember this, Threadweaver: love is no lesser force than hate, and a scorned heart does not wither—it burns. And fire does not choose sides.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“we forget ourselves in our grief, we may as well bury ourselves besides those we’ve lost”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“There were melancholy hums of laments for the lost and lullabies for the restless. There was a composition of scars. Stories of old mending with stories of new in hurried whispers of voices gone and present. The stars had sung a requiem in tears for the fallen. The darkness sang out a ballad for those broken. A hymn was played for that which was forgotten.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“I’m scared something like this will end in flames,” I admit in a near-silent whisper, not elaborating on why. Something sad passes through Draven’s gentle eyes, and he takes my face in both his hands, locking his gaze to mine. “Then I will burn, Lyra, so long as it's by your flame.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“If we all believe we are right when we seek the highest price to quench our thirst for revenge, where does the line begin, and where does it end? For even a hero, from the villain’s eyes, may be equally as cruel in his quest to achieve what he believes, disguising his actions as noble under the name of justice. For that matter, what are heroes and what are villains but two titles given to characters in a story meant to label their deeds as “right” or “wrong”?”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“For it always seems to come back to the eyes of men, expecting everything while offering nothing in return.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“For that matter, what are heroes and what are villains but two titles given to characters in a story meant to label their deeds as “right” or “wrong”?”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“And it’s strange, the way the moon suddenly seems duller—the way the stars don’t appear to boast as loudly—in his absence. So incomprehensibly odd, the way there is a small ache in my chest as I watch him go, feeling like something has suddenly gone missing.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“For that matter, what are heroes and what are villains but two titles given to characters in a story meant to label their deeds as “right” or “wrong”? See, the trouble I have always found is neither right nor wrong point true. It is the storyteller who gives those two words direction. So, I can’t help but sit and wonder… What if we read the story without the titles? Who would we deem the villain? If we were privy to the reasonings behind every action, would we deem anyone a villain? Perhaps we would instead discover what broke. Learn how to fix it.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“They can take”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Maybe it’s moments like this one that are meant to be buried deep beneath my skin. That perhaps I should attempt to be built on memories featuring the warm glow of sunsets instead of the damning glow of flames. Maybe the past isn’t meant to be carried around forever—perhaps the past is meant to be nothing more than a fleeting thing. To pass through me like warm wind through open hands. I don’t have to forget it”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“How do you teach a wolf who’s never been hunted to suddenly think like a sheep? You can’t.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“For it always seems to come back to the eyes of men”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“And so I will tell you the same thing I always told him: Sometimes”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Perhaps someday you will,” he offers. “My mother believed we are all descended from fallen stars”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Women, for some reason, have been bestowed the reputation of being gossipers. But all it takes is an hour in a room with men to know that isn’t the least bit true. Men are the real gossips. They just take the action and dress it up using the word politics.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“He is terrifying—death given form.
He is beautiful—my heart given shape.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“We are not creatures of devotion, but of desperation. We know not how to love, but how to survive. We break. We rebuild. We break again. And if that is the root of humanity, tell me—What is there worth saving?”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Whatever a heart truly is—whatever substance allows it to feel with such unabated devotion—it is yours, wholly and entirely. I have no need for it without you.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Then I will burn, Lyra, so long as it's by your flame.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“That the root of humanity stems from the ceaseless search to be wanted - to be loved. We burn for it. We break for it. We tear ourselves open, carve ourselves hollow, and still, we reach. Still, we beg. Still, we hope.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars

“Feeling what’s hurt you is not letting them win, but refusing yourself the opportunity to heal because of them is.” He takes another step. “Pretending to be whole does not mean you are, just as pretending the pain does not exist won’t make it go away.”
― Hazel S. Wilkes, A Requiem for Fallen Stars