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“Your heart, Poppy? It is a gift I do not deserve.” He placed his hands on his knees as he lifted his gaze to mine. “But it is one I will protect until my dying breath.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Dear gods, you have her on her own horse? Soon, she’ll be running one of us over instead of stabbing us.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“The world, no matter how big, is often smaller than we realize.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“I need to feel your lips on mine." He planted his hands on the carriage wall, caging me in. "I need to feel your breath in my lungs. I need to feel your life inside me. I just need you. It's an ache. This need. Can I have you? All of you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Just so you know, Penellaphe doesn’t need protection. She is more than capable of handling things herself. But that is my future you are walking away with. Guard her well. Your life depends on it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You can’t spell dysfunctional without fun, now can you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Always,” he whispered in the breath we shared. “Your heart was always safe with me. It always will be. There is nothing I will protect more fiercely or with more devotion, Poppy. Trust in that—in what you feel from me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He was the first thing I’d ever truly chosen for myself.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You’re beautiful when you’re quiet and somber, but when you laugh? You rival the sunrise over the Skotos Mountains.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“He smiled up at me, his eyes twin golden flames. “I do so prefer hand-to-hand combat with you,” he said, catching my other wrist when I swung my fist down. “I like how close it brings us, Princess.”
I shrieked my frustration – my irritation – at him. At myself. “There is something so wrong with you!”
“Probably, but you know what?” He lifted his head off the ground. “That’s the part you like the most.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“You’re an absolutely stunning, murderous little creature,” he murmured.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“There is no side of you that is not as beautiful as the other half. Not a single inch isn’t stunning.” His lashes lifted, and the intensity in his stare held me captive. “That was true the first time I said it to you, and it is still the truth today and tomorrow.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“His fingers slipped under it as his hand curved on my shoulder. "You lie so sweetly".
I ignored that. "Casteel---"
"But not as sweet as you say my name".
I let out a little growl. "You are..."
"Marvelous? Charming? Undeniable?"
"Increasingly annoying”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Feelings were not stagnant. Neither were opinions or beliefs, and if we stopped believing people were capable of change, then the world might as well be left to burn.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“When it comes to bacon, the answer is always yes.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“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

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Don't." Clary raised a warning hand. "I'm not really in the mood right now."
"That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones