Manacled Quotes

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I have warned you. If something happens to you, I will personally raze the entire Order. That isn't a threat. That is a promise. Consider your survival as much a necessity to the survival of the Resistance as Potter's. If you die, I will kill every last one of them.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I always have to choose, and I never get to choose you. I'm tired of not getting to choose you”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“You are not replaceable,” he said. His hands were shaking as he gripped her. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people. The reason I took that fucking Vow was to keep you alive. To keep you safe." - Chapter 52: Flashback 27”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I’m sorry—I’m sorry—I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for everything I did to you,” he said, his voice hoarse and broken. “I love you. You left, and I’d never told you.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Be careful. Don't die.
Only because you asked.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Malfoy always comes for me.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I’m going to take care of you. I’m not going to let anyone hurt you. You don’t have to be lonely, because you’re mine.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I promised--every time you asked, I promised I was yours always. There aren't any exemptions or expiration dates on always.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“But as she tried to unravel him, he grew increasingly tragic and terrifyingly human”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“He had such long fingers. In another life, he could have been a healer or a musician. He would have had the perfect hands for it.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“It was always the last thing she said to him.
The moment before he apparated away, as he stood in his Death Eater robes, she’d say it rather than goodbye. She’d catch his chin in her hand and stare up into his eyes. “Be careful. Don’t die.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“His passion hadn't been explosive. it was a smoldering fire; the kind that grew secretly, like a ground fire deep in the earth, spreading and waiting before rising up, destroying the world above. She suspected he burned for things more deeply than even he was aware of.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen, she promised herself.

-Chapter 35”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Draco talked to Aurore more than he talked to anyone, even Hermione.
He would monologue to her about anything, about the trees, and the furniture, all the shops where he’d bought books for Hermione, about what the weather might be, and what all the colours and hues of the analytic spells meant. Aurore would listen to him intently and fret when he got distracted or fell silent for too long.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Expecto Patronum!” She poured every drop of emotion she had into the spell.

White light exploded from her wand, growing larger and larger until her Patronus fully corporalized.

Not her otter.

Not a blur.

Hermione stared up as a full-sized Antipodean Opaleye emerged from her wand. It filled the sky. It threw back its head, roaring and unfurling enormous wings. It opened its mouth, and white flames poured from it.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Perhaps someday when I have time, I can make a list for you of all the things that apologies can't fix,”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“He tasted like ice and firewhisky and sin.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“He pressed his lips against her forehead. “You’re better than anyone,” he said quietly, the words brushing against her skin. “This world doesn’t deserve you at all.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“If you die, I will kill every last one of them.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“She had never felt so unmotivated. Existing seemed like such an unfair demand.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Everyone who wins say they were good, but they’re the ones who write the history. I haven’t seen anything indicating that it was actually moral superiority that made a difference.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“When he moved, she could tell that he’d stopped breathing. His fingers spasmed as he started to reach out. He hesitated and then just barely brushed the baby's palm as though he expected his touch to poison or break her. The tiny hand reflexively closed around his finger, gripping it.


Draco sat frozen.

Hermione watched him and recognized the expression in his eyes as he looked down at the little person who was clinging tenaciously to him.

Possessive and adoring.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“You’re alright? Are you alright? Has anything happened to you?” He’d run his hands over her to check as he asked”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I suppose no one realises how light one set of manacles is until they have two,”
― Senlinyu, Manacled

“Once upon a time… there had been a girl who fought. Who believed that books and cleverness and friendship and bravery could overcome all things.

But now—

—that girl was gone.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“Even before I remembered, you were the only thing that ever felt safe.”

She stared up into his eyes. “I left a note. Did you get my note? I love you.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“There was a part of her that felt she might somehow doom them if she said it. If there were important things left unspoken, then perhaps tomorrow would come.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I must admit,” he said in a low voice as though it were a confession, “if anyone had told me that you’d become so lovely, I would never have come near you. I was rather blindsided when I first saw you again.”

She stared at him in confusion.

“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,” he said, and his lips curved into a bitter smile. “I wonder what you could have turned into without the war.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled

“I wish you luck, Miss Granger. You are a better friend than Harry Potter will ever deserve.”
― SenLinYu, Manacled