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  • #1
    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #2
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #3
    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #4
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #5
    Elle Kennedy
    “Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them.”
    Elle Kennedy, The Deal

  • #6
    Elle Kennedy
    “Hey, come on, don’t cry,” he begs. “It breaks my fucking heart to hear you cry.”
    Elle Kennedy, The Deal

  • #7
    Elle Kennedy
    “Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.”
    Elle Kennedy, The Deal

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
    "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “Can I help you with something?"
    Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
    Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “Well, I’m not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I’d rather stay down here and rot."
    "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever’s an awfully long time."
    Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don’t you?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy?”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #12
    Donna Tartt
    “I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
    Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

  • #13
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist.”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

  • #14
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “-She understands.”
    “Understands what?” I whispered. Rider’s gaze held mine again.
    “She understands that if I have to pick between you two, it’s not going to be her.”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

  • #15
    Jennifer L. Armentrout
    “Forever was knowing moments of weakness didn't equate to an eternity of them.”
    Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this. Maybe no one has.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #17
    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #18
    Holly Black
    “Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #19
    Holly Black
    “Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #20
    Holly Black
    “He looks up at me with his night-colored eyes, beautiful and terrible all at once. “For a moment,” he says, “I wondered if it wasn’t you shooting bolts at me.”

    I make a face at him. “And what made you decide it wasn’t?”

    He grins up at me. “They missed.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #21
    Holly Black
    “If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #22
    Holly Black
    “Clap her in chains," says Randalin.
    Never have I so wished there was a way for me to show I was telling the truth. But there isn't. No oath of mine carries any weight.
    I feel a guard's hand close on my arm. Then Cardan's voice comes.
    "Do not touch her."
    A terrible silence follows. I wait for him to pronounce judgement on me. Whatever he commands will be done. His power is absolute. I don't even have the strength to fight back.
    "Whatever can you mean?" Randalin says. "She's-"
    "She is my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd.
    "The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #23
    Holly Black
    “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #24
    Holly Black
    “Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #25
    Holly Black
    “Cardan gazes at a rosebush with petals so black and glossy they look like patent leather. ¨It was terrifying,¨ he says, ¨watching you fall. I mean, you´re generally terrifying, but I am unused to fearing for you. And then I was furious. I am not sure I have ever been that angry before.¨ ¨Mortals are fragile,¨ I say. ¨Not you,¨ he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. ¨You never break.¨
    Page 159”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #26
    Holly Black
    “This is my room,” he points out, affronted. “And that’s my wife.”

    “So you keep telling everyone,” the Bomb says. “But I am going to take out her stitches, and I don’t think you want to watch that.”

    “Oh, I don’t know,” I say. “Maybe he’d like to hear me scream.”

    “I would,” Cardan says, standing. “And perhaps one day I will.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #27
    Holly Black
    “Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #28
    Holly Black
    “And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
    It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #29
    Holly Black
    “I think of his riddle. How do people like us take off our armor?
    One piece at a time.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #30
    Holly Black
    “I start to speak, but he stops me with a gesture. “And you.” He looks at me, his lips curving in something that’s not quite a smile; it’s more and less than that. “I knew little else, but I always knew you.” And when he kisses me, I feel as though I can finally breathe again.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing



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