Aya > Aya's Quotes

“I love you,' he whispered, and kissed my brow. 'Thorns and all.”
― Sarah J Maas

“I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?”
― Nitya Prakash

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
― Richard Siken

“And the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It was one of those early spring days where the winter had fought its way back in a relentless pursuit to stay in the limelight, even though it knew its days were numbered.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Keep talking. I love hearing your voice.”
― Lauren Asher, Throttled

“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Life lesson, shithead. Careful who you pick a fight with. Someone insane might love him.”
― Elsie Silver, Heartless

“Wind ruffled my hair and the scent of cinnamon spice drifted through the air. He didn’t say anything as he sat down next to where I laid.
I kept my eyes closed as I muttered to him in the night air, “Tell me a story.”
― Lilaina Hinz, Shadows of Ash and Gold

“You've managed to become a permanent resident in my mind”
― daffydarling, Catharsis

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Venice would not be who she is without her music lingering around every narrow calle and corner.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“When a bone breaks, it heals stronger in the cracks. I realize this is what is happening to her heart.”
― Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known-and even that is an understatement.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For I don't know how to be silent when my heart
is talking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“A bittersweet montage of memories flicker past her eyes.”
― Adrian Bliss

“I am empty of everything other than hunger. It is a beast that claws at my insides begging for sustenance. The more it receives, the more it wants, the more it begs. Sure there are times it sits sleeping in my guts, its purrs pulsing low and deep, but it never leaves. The beast is never satisfied.”
― Igraine Gray

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her. He worshipped her. He'd walk across fire for her. He—

—still had the audience of her three brothers.

Slowly breaking the kiss, he turned his face to the side. Anthony, Benedict, and Colin were still standing in the foyer. Anthony was studying the ceiling, Benedict was pretending to inspect his fingernails, and Colin was staring quite shamelessly.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“And then there was Kate Sheffield.

The bane of his existence.

And the object of his desires.

All at once.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Do
you miss a parent you never knew?” he whispered.
Kate considered his question for some time. His voice had held a hoarse urgency that told her there was
something critical about her reply. Why, she couldn’t imagine, but something about her childhood clearly
rang a chord within his heart.
“Yes,” she finally answered, “but not in the way you would think. You can’t really miss her, because you
didn’t know her, but there’s still a hole in your life—a big empty spot, and you know who was supposed
to fit there, but you can’t remember her, and you don’t know what she was like, and so you don’t know
how she would have filled that hole.” Her lips curved into a
sad sort of smile. “Does this make any sense?”
Anthony nodded. “It makes a great deal of sense”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“She put her hand atop his chest and felt the beating of his own heart beneath his shirt. Slowly, he placed his touch atop hers, his eyes staring into her own when he said, “It beats for you. Today, tomorrow, forever - my heart is yours.”
― daffydarling, Catharsis

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“After all this time?"
"Always...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows