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“I lean over to kiss her cheek. A part of me feels like it'll be the greatest act of rebellion I ever do.”
― Alexandra Bracken

“This place hums to the tune of debauchery. This city is filthy and deep in the thrall of unending sin, so saturated with the kiss of decadence that the sky threatens to buckle and crush all those living vivaciously beneath it in punishment.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Tell me a story," she whispers.
No more stories. No more fairy tales.
"I love you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Beyond the Night

“I was raised in hatred, Roma. I could never be your lover, only your killer.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Eyes of a poet, hands of a killer.

Who the hell are you?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I'm not saving you," I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In Time

“Do you not listen to me when I speak?” he answered shakily, his lip quirking up. “I love you. I have always loved you.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“What is it about horrible, violent things that capture us?”
― Alexandra Bracken, In Time

“Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“She would drive a saint to murder."
"Good thing you're not a saint.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“I sit beside her, and it is a small miracle, it is something I will never take for granted, that she leans her head against my shoulder. Her hand finds mine. I let the soft warmth of her skin melt into the fire that burns beneath mine.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Beyond the Night

“I know all of it is true, but I also know, on a very basic, human level, hers is the most beautiful face I've ever seen. They must have created art specifically for people like her, to try and fail forever to capture these small looks, all her various angles and the colors of her moods.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“It doesn't make sense. She's in pain, we are in actual hell, and none of it seems to matter.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“You’re fluent in Russian and that’s the best you could come up with?” Roma asked, flabbergasted. “What is a Montague? It sounds Italian.”
“There are Italian Communists!”
“Not in Shanghai!”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it'll mean I've survived. It'll mean I'm alive.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“You destroy me and then you kiss me. You give me a reason to hat you and then you give me a reason to love you. Is this a lie or the truth? Is the a ploy or your heart reaching for me?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“They will never have this, will they? They might not ever know the feeling of cozying up to a lightning bolt, what it feels like to look at someone's face and see your heart there.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Don’t you dare,” Roma said. “Don’t you dare fall apart now, dorogaya.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“There is a girl with sunshine hair who turns my world to shreds. She burns my eyes, breaks my thoughts to pieces. There is a glow around her like the sky at noon, but it narrows, the image, it shrinks, and the pain eases its grip into numb nothing. It shrinks and shrinks again until it becomes a pinprick of life in the dark.
A spark that fades to nothing at all.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise

“He became the answer to every doubt and lingering question.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“Ruby, what does the future look like?" Nico asked. "I can't picture it. I try all the time, but I can't imagine it. Jude said it looked like an open road just after a rainstorm.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“It's a wild place of half-told stories and overgrown dreams.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Beyond the Night

“Even the land of dreams needs to wake up sometimes.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“I don't want to be your stranger."
I glanced back. "Then don't be.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Legacy

“Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren't we all proof of that?”
― Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise