Léa > Léa's Quotes

“I am forever loving things that cannot love me back.”
― Kiersten White, The Excalibur Curse

“I do not want you to forget me. Think of me often. Think of me at the most inappropriate times. But think of me honestly, and remember that I am answering for my own mistakes.”
― Kiersten White, The Excalibur Curse

“God bless libraries.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Darkness was never as appealing as the light to most, but that didn’t mean it was any less integral to life. Too much sunshine withered the soul. Balance was the key.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“And I love being a sinner too much to ever be a saint.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“I will be your God, your Creator, your Destroyer, and every depraved dark thing in between.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“He'd been right when he said she didn't want Prince Charming.

She wanted the demon.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Women are not possessions. She belongs to herself, you arrogant halfwit.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Her father had told her repeatedly that fear was the one force that drove all darkness in the world. Love, on the other hand, was the greatest source of power. Love strengthened the weakest, gave them a ferocity that fear never offered. Mothers defended their children. Partners, friends, good people stared down evil, becoming something to be feared.

Because of love.

Yet love wasn't the path Camilla had chosen. She'd succumbed to that same moral trap.

Change was terrifying. The unknown always was. It was the very essence of its being unknown that made it so. The familiar was comforting even when it wasn't necessarily good.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“This man could drag her down to hell and she'd gladly burn for eternity.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Nature was a violent mistress, her beauty a mask to hide her cruelty.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Touch her'- his voice was laced with malice, even as it faded to a mere whisper- 'and I'll annihilate you all.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“You think, but you don’t know. You don’t know anything about what it’s like to find your other half, I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Maybe some things transcend reciprocity. Maybe not everything is about having.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Maybe there is something devastating about the incompleteness of it. But maybe, just knowing that the other person is there . . .” His throat bobs. “There might be pleasure in that, too. The satisfaction of knowing that something beautiful exists.” His lips open and close a few times, as though he can only find the right words by shaping them first to himself. “Maybe some things transcend reciprocity. Maybe not everything is about having.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Maybe you're not meant for me the way I'm meant for you, but I'm going to choose you anyway, over and over and over again.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“You’re not a problem, Misery. You’re a privilege.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“You want to know what you mean to me, Kam?’ His lips trail down the curve of my neck.‘Every day I wonder when your human life will end, and it scares the hell out of me. ’ His words are hot on my skin. ‘You make me wish I didn’t have forever.”
― Elizabeth May, The Vanishing Throne

“But then he looked at Wren, and suddenly , he didn’t want to be strong. He wanted to surrender. To let go. To unravel. Even just for a moment.
Which was exactly why he couldn’t.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith