Crown Me Yours Quotes

“Because love and loss are on the same coin - one side warmth, one side ache - but the value never changes. And to carve out the grief would be to erase the love that made the memory worth living. A thousand times over.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“You can’t have love without embracing grief. Pain is the price we pay for participating in life.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Every hello carries its goodbye folded inside it, like a letter you know you’ll have to open someday.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“We both know dying is easy. It’s a single moment. One decision, and then…it’s done. And you never have to feel the weight of what comes after.” She tilts her head. “But living for someone? Waking up every morning, even when it hurts, even when you can’t fathom to keep going?” The corner of her mouth twitches. “Try that. If you want to impress me.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Gone for a minute, and I already miss you so much,” I choke out, speaking to a body that no longer holds my wife. “How am I supposed to live without you, hmm?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“To love is to open your heart to the blade of grief, offering it a bloody sheath to land in before it cracks under the agony of loss.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Grief is just love hiding in a mourning dress”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“That’s the thing about moments. They’re only that bright because they go out.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Grief is just love hiding in a mourning dress, piling up inside you because the person you want to give it to isn’t there to take it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Elara.” My name has never sounded like that before. Like a prayer from someone who has never prayed. “Say it. Say you love me.” “I love you.” The words come as easily as breathing. “I’m yours. I was probably born yours.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Women warned me that husbands get irritating after a while, you know,” I say. “Then mine shows up, annoying me without even a grace period.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“grief is just love hiding in a mourning dress.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“When my sand runs out," I say, holding his gaze in the dark, those fathomless hollows, "and you come for me... I think I'll smile. I think it will feel like coming home." My hand shifts over his heartstrings, feeling their steady pulse. "Like settling into the place where I belonged all along. With Death.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Wrinkles, Vale. They’re wrinkles.” “Evidence,” he corrects softly, his thumb following a crease that deepens when I squint. “That you laughed too hard at supper last week. That you frown in your sleep.” His touch drifts to the corner of my mouth, where the skin creases more than it once did. “That you’ve spent twenty years smiling at me when I don’t deserve it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“You can’t have love without embracing
grief. Pain is the price we pay for participating in life.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“A lopsided smirk lets his teeth flash. “Tell me…do you love me yet?”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Making Death your consort is our only hope. Your Majesty, you have to…have to…” Another deep breath. “You have to wed him. Bed him. Crown him. Then slit his throat and bleed him over the gold.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Pain is the price we pay for participating in life.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“I think this is the orphanage Kael sent his meals to.” Across from me, Vale sits rigid against the velvet squabs, staring out the window, his jaw locking so tight a muscle feathers beneath the skin of his cheek. “My, my…a man decaying, a meal for the worms long since, and yet my wife still speaks his name with nothing short of reverence.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“We both know dying is easy. It’s a single moment. One decision”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Gone for a minute”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“That’s the thing about moments. They’re only that bright because they go out. Daron knew. He must have. Why else did he laugh the loudest with rot climbing his fingers? Why else did he crack jokes at corpses, and grin at funerals, and hoard every ridiculous, stupid, beautiful second like it was coin? Because he felt the hourglass in his chest. Because he knew the sand was running, and so he spent every grain like it was gold.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Together,” I mewl. “With me.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Your heart is healing.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Death is a lover,”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Everything breaks”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Do not rewrite history because you’re frightened of the ink,”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Why else did he laugh the loudest with rot climbing his fingers? Why else did he crack jokes at corpses, and grin at funerals, and hoard every ridiculous, stupid, beautiful second like it was coin? Because he felt the hourglass in his chest. Because he knew the sand was running, and so he spent every grain like it was gold.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“When my sand runs out,” I say, holding his gaze in the dark, those fathomless hollows, “and you come for me… I think I’ll smile. I think it will feel like coming home.” My hand shifts over his heartstrings, feeling their steady pulse. “Like settling into the place where I belonged all along. With Death.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours