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“it is normal to be afraid of doing something that matters. Power is a frightening thing. It’s even more terrifying to do what is right when they would all applaud you for doing what has always been done—”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Things are made more beautiful by pain. You see everything differently afterward. Not right away. It takes time”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“When everyone above the surface believes everyone below is uncivilized and defective and you all believe everyone above is immoral and self-serving, who wins? How can anyone win when you all hate one another?” I asked. Hal said nothing. “How are you any different from them?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Well, since I met you, I find myself watching the moon while I work.” Hal shot me one of his smiles that made his dimple appear. “What does watching the moon have to do with me?” “The moon rules our time, does it not?” “It does.” Hal raked a hand through his hair. “Since meeting you, you seem to rule mine.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“I didn't find someone to save me Lara, but I found someone who stood by my side while I save myself.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Beneath

“I knew these wants were just the beginning. I was terrified. Terrified that if I continued to want—if I released what I had repressed—I would be the one who suffocated under the deluge of unmet desires. What about the injustice of it—that those in the sky had access to such things while the rest of us didn’t? Why were they permitted luxuries while the rest of us were denied basic human needs? Did they withhold it until we became desperate and compliant?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“His huge frame moved toward me with lethal grace. Power emanated from him, as if he were death incarnate.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Because it is normal to be afraid of doing something that matters. Power is a frightening thing. It’s even more terrifying to do what is right when they would all applaud you for doing what has always been done—to be his vessel.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“You can sit on your bed. I promise I won’t ravish you,” Hal drawled. “Unless you ask me to, Moonlight.” He flashed a sinful grin. I rolled my eyes, though my core tightened at the suggestion. “I won’t,” I promised. “Shame,” Hal tutted. I had to fight a smile that tugged at my lips.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Things are made more beautiful by pain. You see everything differently afterward. Not right away. It takes time, but knowing the darkest depths—” Hal paused. “It allows you to experience the highest peaks.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“They didn’t hide the majors to protect us from their defects. They hid them so we wouldn’t discover the truth. That we were the ones in pain, and they—they were free.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“The people portrayed as the hero usually see themselves as the villain because they alone know what it took to get there. They still carry the sacrifices and pain. A villain, however, makes themselves appear as a hero.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Beneath

“I don’t know when or where, Moonlight, but I will fight to find it. The place where we don’t say goodbye.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“I wanted to shatter his control, find out who he really was underneath his polished exterior.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Just because someone’s demons look different from yours”
― Ariel Sullivan, Beneath

“No, I loved him long before that moment. It happened in stolen moments on the dance floor, in the middle of the night, with only the stars to see. I told him a dream I thought only I could see, but he saw it too. The moment, it doesn’t matter when. I know deep down that I loved him long before I met him. I will love him in this life and whatever comes after it.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Making you my friend. It would happen either way.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“When you embrace hello”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Just something to think over. How much are you willing to do to help?” His eyes locked with mine. “Who are you willing to hurt?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“What if I want to understand every horrible thing that happened to you and every horrible thing you had to do? What if I want to see the sides of you that you think you have to hide? I'm not scared of what you did or who you had to become to survive.”
― Ariel Sullivan

“I would risk injury daily to hear your laugh, Moonlight.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Things are made more beautiful by pain. You see everything differently afterward. Not right away. It takes time.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“You will regret it,” Gregory warned, coming to sit, his eyes haunted. “You will regret loving someone you cannot have. It will destroy you. You will spend your entire life fighting. Fighting to keep a secret. Fighting to hide your feelings. Fighting for someone you cannot have. You will never find peace; all you will have are fleeting moments in secret. The goodbyes will lurk and ruin you, cutting you down each time. And the Illum will find out, and they will not allow it. They will ensure you never get it.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“I know deep down that I loved him long before I met him. I will love him in this life and whatever comes after it.” “Even if you can’t be together?” “Yes.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“I don't know when or where, Moonlight, but I will fight to find it. The place where we don't say goodbye.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Their conflicting beliefs and ideologies created an irreparable divide that had resulted in near extinction.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Maybe I was digging my own grave, solidifying my demise. maybe, like all the art they destroyed, I had revealed too much of the things they tried to keep hidden. But I knew one thing: I had felt more alive beneath than I ever had above. Maybe I was okay burying myself alive.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“The finality in a goodbye embrace—when you let go, it might never happen again. So you cling to the person, the feeling, the moment. You hold on longer because it’s doomed to be nothing but a memory.”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Collin’s breaths sawed out of him, his polish corroding. “What do you want from me, Emeline?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform

“Knowing every terrible thing I am capable of. Would you tell me no?”
― Ariel Sullivan, Conform