Tamara Dedin > Tamara's Quotes

“Oh, I'd love it. So would you, don't deny it. Don't you want to go down in history with me, Moony?”
― Zeppazariel, Just Lovers [Like We Were Supposed to Be]

“Remus Lupin is the handsome one," Regulus informs him, not even blinking.
"I-" James opens and closes his mouth. "You know what, that's fair, actually.”
― Zeppazariel, Just Lovers [Like We Were Supposed to Be]

“Stop trying so bloody hard to be perfect. No one can be, and you don't have to be. I can't believe I'm the one telling you this, but just be yourself. Believe it or not, that's all the people who really matter want from you anyway.”
― Zeppazariel, Just Lovers [Like We Were Supposed to Be]

“Don't insult Moony like that. You may not like him, but he's Padfoot's best friend. I can't stand by you and let you insult Padfoot's best friend."
"Oh, is that right?" Remus asks, lips twitching.
"It is," Sirius replies solemnly.
Remus looks charmed, the fool.”
― Zeppazariel, Just Lovers [Like We Were Supposed to Be]

“I wish I could be as subtle and beautiful. All I know how to do is scream.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“People might think that there's no way to be loving about a murder, no wat to make it poetic, but James knew better than to think like that. Love was brutal. Violence was a lot like love. They walked hand in hand, two sides of the same coin, of the same coin— the same person. It was impulsive, reckless and a joined act. You couldn't be violent alone. Someone had to inspire it, feed it, nurture it. Not one without the other.

Maybe it was a fucked up way to look at things, but it was what he knew to be true. A kiss could hurt as much as a punch. As a kick in the chest. As a knife to your side. He knew no love without teeth, without pointed nails. He had the scars on his heart to prove it.”
― moonysmirrorball, The Blood In Your Mouth

“I'm going to stop you right there James. I do not wish to talk about my brother with you and I do not want to hear whatever it is that he has told you." The way his voice changes when talking about Sirius is the same way Sirius's voice changes when talking about him, like they don't know how to phrase the words and are just letting it spill it out. James wonders if Regulus knows that. " Whether is good or bad, it doesn't matter." Regulus looks away. "It stopped mattering years ago.”
― moonysmirrorball, The Blood In Your Mouth

“I would do it all again, you know. I would relive every miserable moment of my miserable life just for the chance to be yours.”
― MesserMoon, Choices

“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“When did we become such terrible people?”
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“So what do you do? Ignore your grief, or indulge it?”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“When it was his turn to speak I watched him closely, uncertain whether he was acting only, or if he and I were both gnashing secrets between our teeth.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Nothing makes sense to him either. His whole world is falling apart, and once he realizes he can’t stop it or fix it or change it, there’s only one thing left to do.” My eyes adjusted slowly, maddeningly. “What’s that?” His shadow shrugged in the gloom. “Absolve yourself. Blame it on fate.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I knew by then the way the story went. Our little drama was rapidly hurtling towards its climactic crisis. What next, when we reached the precipice?
First, the reckoning. Then, the fall.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can’t quantify humanity. You can’t measure it—not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“My martyrdom is not the selfless kind. I can't look at Filippa, shamed by all the injuries I've inflicted- like a man with a bomb strapped to his chest, ready to blow himself up without a thought for the collateral damage.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Whatever we did—or, more crucially, did not do—it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. There is no comfort like complicity.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Jesper ran a finger up Wylan's forearm, and Wylan flushed a vibrant pink. Matthias couldn't help but sympathize with the boy. He knew what it was to be out of your depth, and he sometimes suspected they could forgo all of Kaz's planning and simply let Jesper and Nina flirt the entirety of Ketterdam into submission.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Kuwei turned to Jesper. “You should visit me in Ravka. We could learn to use our powers together.”
“How about I push you in the canal and we see if you know how to swim?” Wylan said with a very passable imitation of Kaz’s glare.
Jesper shrugged. “I’ve heard he’s one of the richest men in Ketterdam. I wouldn’t cross him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“For most of history, anonymous was a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Toss him over,” Zoya said. “Break his heart cruelly. I will gladly give our poor prince comfort, and I would make a magnificent queen.”
I laughed. “You actually might, Zoya. If you could stop being horrible for a minute.”
“With that kind of incentive, I can manage a minute. Possibly two.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Thoughts of moonlight and silken hair evaporated in a black bolt of fury. Kaz saw Inej tug on the sleeve of her left forearm, where the Menagerie tattoo had once been. He had the barest inkling of what she'd endured there, but he knew what it was to feel helpless, and Van Eck had managed to make her feel that way again. Kaz was going to have to find a new language of suffering to teach that smug merch son of a bitch.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom