The Stars Are Dying Quotes

“How do you find me so easily?”

“Because you are the brightest star,” he said, a murmur over my lips. “And the brightest star needs the darkest night.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Rest now. When you wake, the world will still be cruel and your heart will still be bleeding, but you are breathing, Astraea. And every breath is a reminder that you live for something.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“When falls Night, the world will drown in Starlight,” she recited.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Think of me, and I will answer,” he spoke to my mind. Then he pulled away, lingering against my mouth to say aloud, “Long for me, and I am right here with you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I would meet you in the darkness. Every time you called,”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I have waited more than three hundred years for you to come back,”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Your loss is deep, but you will heal. It will linger, but you will keep living.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Let’s make a promise,” she said.
I nodded though she couldn’t see it.
“If we’re lost or apart, we’ll look up and know we’re mapping the same stars. And should death part us, we’ll know the other made it to the skies when the star that shines the brightest gives three blinks.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“If there’s one thing you’re not allowed to give up on, it’s love, Astraea. That’s a demand.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I’m going to take it all away. Then kill every hand responsible for harming you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Destiny is cruel to bring us together. Because you are the most precious gift I can never have.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Was it possible to belong not to any place, but with a person? To find home not on land, but in another soul?”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Rest now. When you wake, the world will still be cruel and your heart will still be bleeding, but you are breathing, Astraea. And every breath is a reminder that you live for something.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I’m going to right everything he wronged. Give you everything he denied you. Worship every inch of the goddess you are, starting right now. Do you believe that?”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I’ve always been right here. Waiting for you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“was the single most exquisite thing I’ve seen and heard in centuries.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“You are not what I expected.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I have waited so long for you,” he murmured, pressing his lips to my jaw, then my neck, and I moaned softly, clutching his hair in my fingers. “I would have waited an eternity for this.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“You deserve to be worshipped—every damn inch of you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I don’t spare your thoughts because I’ve gained some moral code; it’s because I don’t need them. One look in your eyes and you don’t even realize you tell me everything. Like right now, you have no idea the punishment you’re inflicting with that look, knowing should this veil not exist, one touch would make the stars collide, and neither of us would care if we collapsed the world with it.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Knowing you are naked right now is the most riling madness I’ve felt in a very long time.” I trembled at the low, silvery gravel of his voice, easing over to the water and dipping my toes in first. I couldn’t bite back the soft sighs as more hot water caressed my skin. “And those god-damned sounds you make, Starlight.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Who did this to you?” His tone grated with bitter-cold notes.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“You have yet to glimpse my reign, but it is not a crown you should fear falling to me.
I will rain down the stars so you may never dream upon them. I will rain down Phoenixfyre to burn all you build to ash and I will rain down the might of the Ashfyre name to avenge the bloodline you betrayed. You are staring into the face of your deepest fear Malin, for when I am finished with you, - her chest heaved with a promise so final, words that struck like a declaration from the Gods- you will all yield to me.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, A Sword from the Embers

“She’s of a different world that has taught her empathy is wrong, that her life depends on conformity and terror, so it is what she embodies.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, A Sword from the Embers

“Your soul is magnetic. There won’t exist a time or place where I won’t be drawn to it. And, love, you might look the same, you might remember everything we almost had one day, but here and now I’m falling for you. I found you with a steel heart in my chest, and for the first time in three centuries it doesn’t feel so cold. Not because of what you were, but for everything you are. Do you believe that?”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Think of me, and I will answer. Long for me, and I’m right here with you.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Rosalind Kalisahn.” He drawled her name. She cast him a bored look but laid a hint of a warning on him. “So you know my name. Everyone in the realm will by now. Keep yours—I have no need for it.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I watched you as you ran, then slowed, then stopped. You saw the ice crack and knew it would break. Never again will you stare down at death and desire to take its hand.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“a leash has two ends and it was only a matter of time before you strangled him with it.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Waves can seem high and they fight with direction, but no storm is eternal. Venture the path that calls to your soul when the sea calms enough for you to see what lies ahead.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying