Chloe C. Peñaranda > Quotes

“It’s easy to forget the leaps we’ve taken when the steps forward become so small. But never forget you are still moving. You are challenging yourself with every day you decide to face your reality.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, A Sword from the Embers

“One hundred and nine thousand, five hundred, and seventy-three days,” he said quietly. His eyes opened and fell to me; his hand cupped my cheek. “It was worth every second of misery in them to hear that again. I haven’t stopped being completely, madly, irretrievably in love with you. Whether you rule the sky or the land, I live for you, Astraea.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I’d come to learn grief was not something to heal but embrace. Every time it came back strong enough to take the light and pull me to my knees, I would thank it and treasure the days I had to carry on for both of us.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“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

“When I said I had to leave this realm it wasn’t me giving up. I’m determined to find another way to rewrite our ending. Over and over. Through time and space, finding you in every story and living the agony until I find the one where we were triumphant. I refuse to give up on us. I refuse to accept that there is no having you. You’re mine, Astraea.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“would you be willing to condemn your world for it? Because I would. I would lie with you and watch every star plummet to land,” he said in a gravelly whisper, leaning in until his breath teased my throat. “This world would fall to darkness and I would spend everyday content never to see the daylight, because I have this. You. My brightest star.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“You waited centuries for me. There’s no measure of time I won’t wait for you. Forever”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Dark Is Descending

“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

“She’s a fucking goddess and I’m prepared to fall to my damn knees to pray to her.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, Behind The Broken

“This life can drag us to many places against our will. Destiny is a sea, and the boat that fights it will drown. That which rides the storm finds the strength to conquer it.”
― 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

“But there’s so much to be found behind the broken, so much to be loved, and I’m committed to seeing it all.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, Behind The Broken

“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

“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

“You like games; I like to win. You like to run; I love to fucking chase. Keep trying, little bird. I’ll happily indulge in your fire. Cause me pain and watch as I take it with pleasure.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, Behind The Broken

“You look worse than me.” I observe each cut and bruise on him. “Nothing on me hurts more than seeing a wound on you.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, Inside the Wicked

“When you turn the key on the past and stop looking to the future. Because there is nothing but now to be found. There is nothing more certain than the need to treasure every second of the now as if there won’t be a tomorrow.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Your heart has always called to darkness but you don’t get to become it. This is the only time I’ll truly ask: let me go, Astraea. Condemn me, and reign like the stars eternal without me.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“I am whatever you want me to be.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“When you’ve lived through the worst pain invisible to the world, that which can be inflicted on flesh becomes insignificant.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I once held you in my arms as you fucking died, Astraea. As you left and took my heart with you and the only kernel of good ever to reside in my soul. I can’t do it again—I won’t do it again. So no, a blood bargain won’t keep me from coming for you. There is nothing I wouldn’t destroy in my path to you when you are in danger. I was too late once; I won’t be again.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Night Is Defying

“You have an intrusive habit of touching me.

You have an inquisitive will to allow it.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Danger is not in the act nor the being; it arises when one does not know how to handle a difficult situation.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“An average kiss from an average man won’t improve my confidence.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, Behind The Broken

“Starlight,” he drawled, his head tilting curiously, “there are two kinds of belonging. Possession … and alliance. One of single ownership, and one of mutual desire.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“hollows”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, Behind The Broken

“You don't get to decide what I see as a monster.”
― Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I think everyone knew deep down but didn't want to acknowledge that their beacon of hope was a lie of oppression. I couldn't relate to the excitement that buzzed through people's talk of it, but I understood.
Spirits were fragile. Hope kept them from breaking.”
― Chloe C Peñaranda