Jasna W. > Jasna's Quotes

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fire - but that I would be quiet and enduring and as faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to look, and if people didn't bother to look, but only to fear it... Then I didn't particularly care for them, anyway. I wonder if, even in my despair and hopelessness, I was never truly alone.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The plants were fragile and alive and impermanent—just like me—and yet, they‘d still managed to reclaim the ancient structure. It was a little inspiring.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I pinned him against the wall, here in the shit-stinking, piss-coated alleyway where he had been stalking young women in the pub across the street. I wasn‘t the young woman he wanted, but I was certainly the one he deserved.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And then I realized. I realized that fear, when embraced, hardens and sharpens. That it becomes rage. That it becomes power.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Humans left little marks of their lives everywhere. Flowers in window boxes, toys left in yards, a series of shoes on the doorstep that painted the image of a family. I had never noticed these things before, and certainly never found beauty in them. Now, I tucked each one away like little secret gifts.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There are moments in one’s life that remain permanently distilled in memory. Some wither within minutes, and others are carved forever into our souls.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Strange, that girls are so often told that the loss of their virginity marks a threshold between girlhood and womanhood, as if it fundamentally alters them in some way. It was not the sex that changed the girl forever. Not the blood that spilled between her thighs that shaped her. The blood that spilled over that marble floor, though… Those are the stains on one’s innocence that never fade.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Here’s the thing about the God of Abundance. Abundance wears many faces. The god of plenty is also the god of decay. There can be no life without death, no feast without famine.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“I always had thought that Mina didn‘t understand me, all my true intentions hidden behind the wall I couldn‘t figure out how to scale between me and the people around me. Maybe she did see more than I ever realized, after all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Because for so long, I had struggled to connect with my sister. Struggled to show her the warmth beneath my cold. Struggled to let her see the love my face and words couldn‘t convey to her.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“And for those few moments, strangely enough, I felt like I didn‘t have to work so hard to bridge the gap between myself and the rest of the world. Didn‘t have to word so hard adjusting my facial muscles and body language, nor at decoding his.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“I spent so much time thinking about every muscle in my body, my face, figuring out how to present them appropriately to the world. Despite all that effort, most people still didn‘t like me much, but Farrow always had.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“And when the days passed, and my exhaustion and my enthusiasm led me to loosen my typically-closely-held control over my socially unacceptable attitudes, my raw enthusiasm leaking through as I talked excitedly to Vale about some theory or another, I turned to see him staring at me, brows drawn. His expression made me freeze, my face flushing—because I’d let down a wall I shouldn’t have and wasn’t sure what I might have revealed beyond it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“A hysterical wave of sympathy passed over me—because he, like me, struggled to understand human nature. Maybe we were both so bad at it that my entire town would perish because of it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Humans mourn time, because it’s the only currency that really matters in a life so short.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“A life in which nothing means anything is not a life at all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“To those who surrounded him, he was a collection of skin and muscle, an object, a pet, not a person. When this is what you are told for years, it becomes easy to believe it. It becomes easier to survive if you believe it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“But one day, the things that are the most painful are going to be sources of strength.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“But that’s what happens when one person gets to shape your entire world. They can make it into whatever they want, and you’re stuck inside those walls, whether they’re real or not.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I’ve got to believe in love, Raihn. The world is sad enough.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“You have nothing but me", I said. "And yet, you'd let me go?" "I have nothing but you,“ he murmured. "So I am letting you go.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“There was no hurt in his eyes. No anger. Only gentle, affectionate understanding. I hated when he looked at me like that. Or maybe I hated that, too, the same way I hated him. Not at all.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Death is not the enemy. Death is a natural continuation of life. An intrinsic part of fate.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“My rage had become a living thing inside my chest, an echoing heartbeat that soothed me to sleep and stirred me to waking.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Unworthy boys make a lot of noise”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing