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“Just because something seems impossible doesn’t make it untrue,”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“With knot of one, the spell's begun.
With knot of two, the spell be true.
With knot of three, the spell is free.
With knot of four, the power is stored.
With knot of five, the spell with thrive.
With knot of six, this spell I fix.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Je suis à votre commande, seigneur.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims.”
― C.D. Reiss, Sing

“Was there anyone before you?

You might have thought so at the the time.

I feel like no one's ever loved me before.

I'm sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“I want to be your last. I want to ruin you for other men.”
― C.D. Reiss, Submit

“I want you to understand something. That man? He’s not some boyfriend in a line of them. He is my alpha and omega. He is the sky over me. Without him, I’m lost. There’s no one else, no one whose soul balances mine the way his does. I’ve waited my life for him, and when he came, I didn’t recognize him. Not until recently. If I lose him, I swear, as God is my witness, I will be alone. No man can match him.”
― C.D. Reiss, Sing

“You are the sun I revolve around, the stars that mark me, the moon rising through me. I’m lost without you. If you won’t have me, I’ll break, I swear to God. I know it’s selfish, and I’m sorry. Let me serve you. Have me as yours. Let me live under you.”
― C.D. Reiss, Sing

“If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all.”
― C.D. Reiss, Tease

“The truth is that I love you. The rest is unnecessary complication.”
― C.D. Reiss, Resist

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“What we have isn’t something we made. It’s something that existed before we even met.”
― C.D. Reiss, Burn

“My fingers memorized his face, the textures and lines, to the tempo of his rising urgency. I love you I trust you I love you I trust you. Warm pleasure spread over my body like spilled milk, until I was covered in it, toes curling, back arching, legs stiffening,. I held back a cry and came for him, only him.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“Antonio straightened like a shot, straddling me. He took my hands from my face and filled my vision. The eye of the storm: a place of peace and calm, and the most dangerous space to be in. The eye made you complacent and comfortable, and the next minute, while you were enjoying the cloudless sky, you'd be swept into a violent wind.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“amerò sempre. Fino alla fine dei miei giorni.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“How could I go back to earth, having kissed heaven?”
― C.D. Reiss, Ruin

“He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“So how did he look at me?"

"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
― Cecil Beaton

“Not ambitious,” he said, dark eyes searching my face. “But often careless. Not cold, but sometimes distant. Passionate, intelligent, dreamy…and too easily hurt.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be more lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Brad Pitt

“How do they not hear the trickle of my heart’s blood dripping out of my chest, how do they not see the scooped-out pain in my eyes, how can they not hear every desperate plea and every rasping sob I’ve let out in the last twenty-four hours?”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“I am the leaf skating across the pond again, simply blowing where her words take me, and I can just watch with exhilarating clarity how much she enjoys”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“I hug him. I close my eyes, press my face into his already strong and heavy shoulder, and I thank God for this unexpected grace. This undeserved mercy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid.
He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him.
Never will.
He lives.
I breathe.
I want. Him. Always.
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I’d know joy.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“Hope strengthens. Fear kills.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl