Emily > Emily's Quotes

“Live, Manon. Live.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“What do you want to be?"

"Happy," she says with a smile.

That's the perfect answer.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“One day you will be old and wrinkled, and I will still love you.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“She was not becoming anything different from what she always was and always had the capacity to be. You just finally saw everything. And once you saw that other part of her… You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Men can be such beautiful trash,”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Not all broken things need to be fixed. Sometimes they just need to be loved. It would be a shame if only people who were whole were deserving of love.” “Brooks.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Silent Waters

“I am a descendant of Ranthia Drahl, Queen of Embers. She is with me now and I am not afraid. My friends are behind me, and I will protect them.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“I read our love wrong, but that doesn't mean I don't love you. You were there for me when I needed to act out and be angry, and you made me happy when I was tired of hating everything. Nobodies can't make someone feel all of that.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“And I heard you name. Hearing you say it... it was like an answer to a question I had been asking for five hundred years.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“He'd loved her so much that she still felt the echoes of it, even now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Michelle Dennis is just a girl, but in this moment, she's saved every one of her comrades in arms. In this moment, she's both ordinary and extraordinary. Just like everyone in this story.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

“Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"

"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“History, huh?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“She was surprised that her hands had not forgotten, that somewhere in her mind, after a year of darkness and slavery, music was still alive and breathing. That somewhere, between the notes, was Sam. She forgot about time as she drifted between pieces, voicing the unspeakable, opening old wounds, playing and playing as the sound forgave and saved her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“For hours, Manon knelt on the battlefield, Abraxos at her side. As if she might stay with them, her Thirteen, for a little while longer.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“Does it really matter if your cage is solid gold when you aren't allowed to leave it? A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gild

“Every story needs its monster, Kady, but this story will end soon. And there is no place for me in the world that awaits you after this. Some place fine and far from here. So this is where we say goodbye.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

“What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music.

She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song."

He chuckled a low, delightful sound. She was drunk and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself.

"I have no name," she purred. "I am whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be."

He grasped her by her wrist, running a thumb along the sensitive sknin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld

“Of all the thing I have seen and the places I have been, you were the one who felt most like home.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

“Bryce's face crumpled as she lurched to her feet, sprinting to the Gate.
She didn't care how it was possible as Danika said again, "Light it up"
Then Bryce was laughing and sobbing as she screamed, "LIGHT IT UP, DANIKA! LIGHT IT UP, LIGHT IT UP, LIGHT IT UP!"
Bryce slammed her palm onto the bronze disk of the Gate.
And soul to soul with the friend whom she had not forgotten, the friend who had not forgotten her, even in death, Bryce made the Drop.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“God, I want to fight everyone who's ever hurt you, but it was me too, wasn't it? All that time.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Sometimes it's because I feel so awful, or ashamed, and I need to make physical what I feel...and sometimes it's because I feel so many things and I need to feel nothing at all--it helps clear them away. And sometimes it's because I feel happy, and I have to remind myself that I shouldn't.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae