Liv Zander > Quotes

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

“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

“For every girl who can love a villain, so long as he’s handsome, hung, and good at groveling.”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“My love is not gentle, or tender, or easy. But it is real, grown from hate and pain deep inside a chest sullied by shadows. It is cutting and biting, leaving behind scars as unfading as my love for you.” His warm lips scathed my jawline. “And once we are gone from this earth, I will continue to love you among the stars. I will be the night, the darkest patch of sky around you, just to ensure that everyone can see how you sparkle. And once your light starts fading, I will take you into my black embrace, and that is where I will love you beyond death.”
― Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel

“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

“I will be the night, the darkest patch of sky around you, just to ensure that everyone can see how you sparkle. And once your light starts fading, I will take you into my black embrace, and that is where I will love you beyond death.”
― Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel

“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

“Fly, brother. We’ll meet again among the stars.”
― Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel

“Worse than a god in rage is a god in love.”
― Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone

“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

“The longer you make me look at you, little dove, the harder it is for me to remember what you are. And I fear that, if I look too long… I just might forget who you are.”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“That’s the thing about moments. They’re only that bright because they go out.”
― 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

“You enjoy watching him about as much as you enjoyed his shadows playing with your cunt and his knife cutting into your tongue,” Sebian whispered. “Which is pretty fucking deranged, but I’m not one to judge… We’re all a bit broken here.”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“You said you hope that your actions added months to my time in the dungeons, but little dove, I never escaped them. They are with me,”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“If I ever find out who dared to court you, little dove, I shall cut off his balls and feed them to my ravens. And you will watch.”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“If a wife cannot speak ill of her husband, then what joys are there left for her in marriage?”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“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

“I might not be able to bond myself to you, but I want you to know that I’m yours until the end… whenever that might be. I will forever treasure you. I will forever provide for you. I will forever fly with you. I will forever care for you.”
― Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel

“It took a good man to take care of a woman, but only the best would recognize what she truly needed, even if it meant embracing what he couldn’t provide.”
― Liv Zander, Shadows So Cruel

“They do what men often do best: nothing.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“The only thing he actually did have was the personality of crotch lice.”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“Men can stare straight at a thing and still not see it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“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

“You’ve met my father?” “Oh, I know him… intimately. There is no cut, no bruise, no broken bone, no humiliation your father spared me.” He sneered, letting my pulse thud loudly in my ears. “Because of your father, I am a million shattered pieces, put back together all wrong. Now get that damn knife away from me before you accidentally hurt yourself. Only I get to hurt you.”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“I have longed for a wife longer than I have had a name for longing.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Dead

“I am not gentle. I was once, I think, but not anymore”
― Liv Zander, Feathers So Vicious

“One day, you will love me. And on that day, when you become wholly mine and nobody else’s, I shall open my gates and return to my divine duty.”
― Liv Zander, King of Flesh and Bone

“Enosh was so easy to hate, but in moments like this, he was even easier to love.”
― Liv Zander, Queen of Rot and Pain