Cinders of Glass Quotes

“I also think you are capable of more. I think you can be kind when you try. I saw that the day we met and you thanked me. I also think you are not as much of an idiot as you believe or as much as you let everyone else believe. You notice more than others, you read people, and you know how to use that knowledge. No one else noticed me that day in the market, no one but you. Somehow you saw me.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“As striking as she was in the ballgown, he couldn't deny he still thought she'd been most beautiful when she'd shown up at his doorstep, weak and sickly pale from the poison. She'd been alive. That had been what was beautiful.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“When did I lose you?" she had once asked.
"You never had me," he had replied.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“We can hide behind the excuse that we were just trying to protect our family, but that doesn't justify the damage we do in their name. But I guess that's something you can only learn when you're the one who gets hurt.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“I will think of you every day for the rest of my life, and I will think of you as who you are. The only woman I have ever let see me for who I am”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“He was going to kill her. After he found her perfectly safe and made sure she was going to stay that way. Then he'd kill her. Metaphorically.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“Missing your beauty sleep?" Liora whispered, nudging him.
"I don't need beauty sleep when I'm naturally this pretty," Cynrik said.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“Just because you have this darkness in you doesn't mean it has to consume you. You can choose to struggle with it, and you may never win, but you will be a better man for it. I believe that, and I believe in you.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“Because people don't change. They just get better at pretending to be someone else.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“And how wonderful was it to be loved by someone who was dark and light in measure that so perfectly complemented his own?”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“I don't think it was really me you betrayed. I was just caught in the crossfire. The truth is, you betrayed yourself. I can give you all of my forgiveness, my trust, and my love, but it's not going to fix anything until you begin to give that back to yourself as well.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“When I found out Liora wasn't the person I thought she was... it hurt more than I could have ever predicted, but I don't think it ever occurred to me for a second to stop loving her. It just became one of the many things complicating us and preventing us from being together, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to work past.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“A traitor is only a traitor if they're on the wrong side of the story, right?”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“I don't need to hear it because I'm not going to forget you. I don't think anyone is capable of forgetting someone like you."
"But you will, everyone always does. But that's alright because I know. For a brief amount of time, even if it wasn't really me, you loved a version of me, and that's closer than I ever imagined I would come.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“When I was with you, I wasn't going through the motions. I was taking action, and even if I never take another action in my life, thank you for being the reason I was a little more alive than a smoke figure for once.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“I don't think you're the most despicable man on the continent; I think you're the best man I've ever known, not because you're perfect, but because you're better. Don't blame yourself for the faults of my character. I was in love with you while you were just realizing you might be able to love me. I swear that was real.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“You were supposed to be better than me," he whispered, so softly, she didn't even think he was saying it to her.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“I think I've been dead for years now. It's just finally catching up to me.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“Part of her wished she could push the bars out of her way and walk out into the storm and get absolutely soaked to the bone and walk for miles in the nothing until the rain overtook her. She wanted to walk into the flood and let it sweep her away. She'd forgotten what it was like for everything to be muffled and distant and hazy despite the fact she'd spent so much of her life that way. It had been easier.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“I don't know if I could ever be considered decent, but I am fully clothed.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“Everyone knew that if a baby gave you a gift, you had to keep it, otherwise you were a heartless monster.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“How could anyone not notice her? She'd appeared out of nowhere like a bolt of lightning, and even as things calmed, he still couldn't shake the feeling like he'd been struck by a bolt as well.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass

“You'll love dancing; it's one of the most romantic things you can do. You can tell if a couple is in love by watching them dance.”
― Celeste Baxendell, Cinders of Glass