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“In the forest of primeval
A school for Good and Evil
Twin towers like two heads
One for the pure
And one for the wicked
Try to escape you'll always fail,
The only way out is
Through a fairytale.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“I should have known what you would do,” Jem said in a low voice. “I always know what you will do. I should have known you would put your hands into the fire.”

“And I should have known you would throw that packet away,” said Will, without rancor. “It was—it was a madly noble thing to do. I understand why you did it.”

“I was thinking of Tessa.” Jem drew his knees up and rested his chin on them, then laughed softly. “Madly noble. Isn’t that meant to be your area of expertise? Suddenly I am the one who does ridiculous things and you tell me to stop?”

“God,” said Will. “When did we change places?”

The firelight played over Jem’s face and hair as he shook his head. “It is a very strange thing, to be in love,” he said. “It changes you.”

Will looked down at Jem, and what he felt, more than jealousy, more than anything else, was a wistful desire to commiserate with his best friend, to speak of the feelings he held in his heart. For were they not the same feelings? Did they not love the same way, the same person? But, “I wish you wouldn’t risk yourself,” was all he said.

Jem stood up. “I have always wished that about you.”

Will raised his eyes, so drowsy with sleep and the tiredness that came with healing runes that he could see Jem only as a haloed figure of light. “Are you going?”

“Yes, to sleep.” Jem touched his fingers lightly to Will’s healing hands. “Let yourself rest, Will.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Cinder." Kai pulled one leg onto the bank, turning his body so they were facing each other. He took her hands between his and her heart began to drum unexpectedly. Not because of his touch, and not even because of his low, serious tone, but because it occurred to Cinder all at once that Kai was nervous.
Kai was never nervous.
"I asked you once," he said, running his thumbs over her knuckles, "if you thought you would ever be willing to wear a crown again. Not as the queen of Luna, but ... as my empress. And you said that you would consider it, someday."
She swallowed a breath of cool night air. "And ... this is that day?"
His lips twitched, but didn't quite become a smile. "I love you. I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to marry you, and, yes, I want you to be my empress."
Cinder gaped at him for a long moment before she whispered, "That's a lot of wanting."
"You have no idea."
She lowered her lashes. "I might have some idea."
Kai released one of her hands and she looked up again to see him reaching into his pocket - the same that had held Wolf's and Scarlet's wedding rings before. His fist was closed when he pulled it out and Kai held it toward her, released a slow breath, and opened his fingers to reveal a stunning ring with a large ruby ringed in diamonds.
It didn't take long for her retina scanner to measure the ring, and within seconds it was filling her in on far more information than she needed - inane worlds like carats and clarity scrolled past her vision. But it was the ring's history that snagged her attention. It had been his mother's engagement ring once, and his grandmother's before that.
Kai took her hand and slipped the ring onto her finger. Metal clinked against metal, and the priceless gem looked as ridiculous against her cyborg plating as the simple gold band had looked on Wolf's enormous, deformed, slightly hairy hand.
Cinder pressed her lips together and swallowed, hard, before daring to meet Kai's gaze again.
"Cinder," he said, "will you marry me?"
Absurd, she thought.
The emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth was proposing to her. It was uncanny. It was hysterical.
But it was Kai, and somehow, that also made it exactly right.
"Yes," she whispered. "I will marry you."
Those simple words hung between them for a breath, and then she grinned and kissed him, amazed that her declaration didn't bring the surge of anxiety she would have expected years ago. He drew her into his arms, laughing between kisses, and she suddenly started to laugh too. She felt strangely delirious.
They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai's wife. She would be the Commonwealth's empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.”
― Marissa Meyer, Stars Above

“My greatest weakness has always been my desire for love. It is a yawning chasm within me, and the more that I reach for it, the more easily I am tricked. I am a walking bruise, an open sore. If Oak is masked, I am a face with all the skin ripped off. Over and over, I have told myself that I need to guard against my own yearnings, but that hasn’t worked.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It is hard to explain the savagery of hope.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“With him, I am forever a night-blooming flower, attracted and repelled by the heat of the sun.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Perhaps it is Oak who is the fool, who caught a wolf and thought that by putting it in a gown and speaking to it as though it were a girl, it would become one.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Another girl might have frozen, but I am cold all the way through.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it’s like hope.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Liz Buxbaum had always been my secret. She was the incredible thing I’d known about but everyone else seemed to miss. The treasure hidden in plain sight, the fortune of a lifetime that was somehow only visible to me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better than the Prom

“You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can't love her as I do. No one could. If you are truly my brother, you would do this for me.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“You don't want to be the hero, you want the happy ending- that's why you came to me. If you do this, that will never happen. Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people. Is that what you really want?”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“He was still indescribably breathtaking, but it was all the tragic beauty of a sky where every single star was falling. His hair was a storm of broken gold. His eyes were a mess of silver and blue.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Even if you see how dark the world can be...choose to believe it could be better. Life had been beautiful once. It could be beautiful again.”
― Sophie Lark, Anastasia

“The truth is a blade that only cuts a liar. And the most dangerous lies are the ones you tell yourself.”
― Sophie Lark, Anastasia

“One heart, one mind, one soul. What is joined by choice can never be torn apart. You're mine, and I'm yours. Yesterday, today, and forever.”
― Sophie Lark, Anastasia

“Love is always magic. It's not rational, it doesn't follow any law. You can't make rules for it, you can't forbid it. You can't even make it disappear within yourself. It's alive like all magic, and it wants to change you.”
― Sophie Lark, Anastasia

“It hurts because we love him. That's the balance of life, hard as it is to accept. A heart open to joy is a heart vulnerable to sorrow. There's no family without loss, no love without pain.”
― Sophie Lark, Anastasia

“Once you see that web of possibilities laid out in front of you, unencumbered by fear of pain or failure, by thoughts telling you what can and cannot, should and should not be done… What will you do with what you see?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“I am the Prince's shield. I am his unbreakable armor. I bleed that he might not bleed. I suffer that he might never suffer. I die that he might live forever.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Everyone wants to tell you that it isn't so bad, but it is. You will be so sad that you will feel like you will die. But you won't die. And with every day that passes, you will get back a little piece of yourself.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“But it is said by the sages that he who desires all, loses all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“You don't have a choice, I hear. Love just happens to you, whether you like it or not; otherwise there wouldn't be so many songs. Besides, people do all sorts of things that are bad for them. I ought to know.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“He kept his promises to Conor, but he would break a promise to anyone else for Conor's sake, in a heartbeat.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“"For a Physician should mind not rank, wealth or age; neither should he question whether a patient is enemy or friend, a native or a foreigner, or what Gods he worships. To heal is as the Goddess commands."”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“He does what he says he will do. If he says he will kill you, he will kill you. If he says he will protect you, he will protect you. To me that is a good man. Perhaps others might feel differently.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“AI, LAS TAN CUIDAVA SABER D'AMORE, E TAN PETIT EN SAI.

Alas, how much I thought I knew of love, and yet how little I know.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher

“Power is an illusion. Power exists because we believe it does. Kings and Queens—and yes, Princes—have power because we grant it to them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Sword Catcher