Broken Knight Quotes

“Moonshine,” he whispered. “You fill up the empty, dark space—like the moon owns the sky. It is quiet. It is bright. It doesn’t need to be a ball of flame to be noticed. It simply exists. It forever glows.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“The heart doesn’t ask for permission to feel things. It simply feels.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Always. Whenever. Forever.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“What if tomorrow never comes?” I whispered. “Then, my darling boy, we’ll make the best of today.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“If you love someone, don’t set them free. Smother the fuck out of them until they realize they have no chance of escaping. Yup. That was the sentiment I was down with, a method I was willing to try.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“My heart broke, not because I was sad, but because it swelled so much at the sight of you, I needed more space in it,”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Love is selfish. Love is raw. Love is unfair, and unpredictable, and unstoppable.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Know what the problem with your generation is? You refuse to understand that love has a price. That’s what makes it significant, pungent, rich. It costs you anger, jealousy, heartbreak, time, money, health…”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“If you think you’ve found something good without anything bad in it, it just means you haven’t examined it close enough.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Make mistakes. Be free. Be bold. Treat teenage as a verb,”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Don’t be a Rosie. Be a Dean. If you want something, no matter what it is, go for it. Falling in love is rare.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I love your brother and your father more than I love myself. I would die for them. Fight for them until the bitter end. Go against the whole world for them. But you…” She dragged her face up to look at me. Her eyes were full of tears. “I’ve always loved you just a tiny bit more. My regal, rebel boy. My legendary hellraiser, my sad prince, my unlikely savior, my beautiful, broken Knight.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“There will be no one else, Moonshine.I will never let you get over me.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I didn’t want to kiss her. I wanted to zip open my skin and tuck her into me. Hide her from the world and keep her mine.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“The Spencers’ bedroom was soundproof, which was something Hunter and I gave Vaughn a lot of shit about. Didn’t make any difference that Baron was Vaughn’s dad—it still must’ve sucked to know someone was fucking your mom so hard she needed special walls not to wake up the neighbors.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Don’t baby me. I’m not your home. People don’t ruin their homes; they build them. They cherish them.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“She could tell me a thousand things with her eyebrows alone, this girl. Sometimes I wanted to shave them off just to spite her.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I love you,” I whispered into his suit. My words had life, and weight, and a pulse. I said them again. “I love you, Dad. I love you. I love you. I love you.” He lifted me up like I was a little girl, spinning me in place and burying his nose in my hair. Tears rolled down our faces. The pen bled the last of its ink, marking this page in our lives forever in my father’s office. I knew, with certainty that made my heart swell, that he was not going to replace that carpet. He was going to look at it every day, remember the day it had happened, and cherish it. “I love you, too, baby girl.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“What helped me go through it was reminding myself of famous people who went through bad shit and were still alive. It was kind of creepy, but it helped. Like, Joaquin Phoenix had watched his brother die, and had to call 911. Keanu Reeves had lost his stillborn baby and the love of his life eighteen months apart. Oprah Winfrey had been a fourteen-year-old runaway after being sexually abused. Charlize Theron watched her mother shoot her father to death in self-defense. These people still lived. Laughed. Breathed. Got married. Had babies. Moved on.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“When you refuse to pay your dues to love, sometimes the price goes up. There’s an inflation, and you end up losing more than you’d bargained.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” —Mary Oliver”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Hit-and-run or struck by lightning—a death was a death.

A heartbreak was a heartbreak.

Pain was pain.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“the fact that we aren’t here forever is exactly what we need to make the most out of life.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“The sun will rise again tomorrow”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“You didn’t do it on purpose. We break things all the time. It’s called life. If you don’t break, you don’t live. You don’t move. You don’t try. You don’t take chances. Breaking is a part of living. FUCKING JOSH will move on. He has to. You need to understand that sometimes, the consequences of your actions are destructive. You need to forgive yourself and make sure the other person knows you’re sorry. You can’t do more than that. You’re not responsible for someone else’s happiness.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“You only get one life, Luna. One stab at this thing called happiness. Why deprive yourself of things you want just because they weren’t given to you the way you hoped for them to come?”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I can’t live without you
But I also can’t contain all this pain, Moonshine."

“Then let me carry some of it, too.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight