Chloe > Chloe's Quotes

“My memories unveil. Of Neo, my poet bruised by people meant to protect him, my poor little boy who should’ve spent his years growing under the sun rather than under exam lights. Of Sony. My flame so determined to burn, whose mother was taken too soon and whose childhood should’ve gone on forever. Of C. My heart-broken bear of a boy, so aloof yet so gentle, so willing to be kind.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“I love you, Papa," she said quietly, realizing how true it was, how true it had always been. Loved turned into loss and she'd pushed it away, but somehow, impossible, a bit of that love had remained. A girl's love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Let them start their dreadful wars, let destruction rain down, and let plague sweep through, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“My heart. I couldn't make myself say the words. My heart. My weak human heart. Scarred and broken and bleeding. The one thing I had always been taught to protect above all. And yet, whatever things struggled along within my ribcage now, far beneath the Mark that my dead father left on me, was anything but protected. It had been torn apart and ripped open.. How had I ever thought Vincent had given me a vampire heart. This was human.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I allowed myself to look up at him. I hated that he looked at me like he cared. His thumb swept over the back of my hand. I could hear his voice in that gesture. You're safe. But I was not safe. Even if I felt it, just for a moment. Especially because I felt it. The priestess led me through the rest of my vows. When it was done, I was married to the King of the Nightborn. I had lost my autonomy, my name, my blood. I had lost my country. But at least I had kept my heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Just because the stars fell doesn't mean they weren't worth wishing on.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Time will cease, disease will fester, and death will die.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Suns can’t see their own light.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“In French, you do not say you miss someone. You say they are missing from you.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Because you don't lose someone once. You lose them hearing a song that reminds you
of their smile. Passing an old landmark. Laughing at a joke they would've laughed at. You lose them infinitely.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Aren’t you afraid you’ll fall?”
“Of course, I am,” she says. “But fear is just a large shadow with a little spine.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Jesper!"
The shout came from far below, and it took a moment for Jesper to realize it was Wylan calling to him. He tried to ignore him, taking aim again.
"Jesper!"
I’m going to kill that little idiot. "What do you want?" he shouted down.
"Close your eyes!"
You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan."
"Just do it!"
"This better be good!" He shut his eyes.
"Are they closed?"
"Damn it, Wylan, yes, they're—"
There was a shrill, shrieking howl, and then a bright light bloomed behind Jesper's lids. When it faded, he opened his eyes. Below, he saw men blundering around, rendered blind by the flash bomb Wylan had set off. But Jesper could see perfectly. Not bad for a mercher's kid, he thought to himself, and opened fire.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Then he blinked, because he'd just registered what this most mundane and extraordinary moment meant - that in the space of several weeks, they had become what he'd never found in Hampstead, what he thought he's never have again after Canton: a circle of people he loved so fiercely his chest hurt when he thought about them. A family.”
― R. F. Kuang

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I had human blood and a vampire heart. He'd had a human heart and vampire blood. The world left no room for either.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“There she is,”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“The berry of rowans is red, always red. The earth at its trunk is dark with bloodshed. But a Prince is a man, and a man may be bled. He came for the girl.. And got the monster instead.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“There once was a girl, clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a king, a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same. The girl, the king and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig

“A broken heart hurts as badly in wartime as in peace. Say good-bye to your young man well.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I see the surgeon in him suddenly, the man who is used to staring past blood and bone to find what is broken.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“The sound of his voice reminds me that I am a mother and mothers don't have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“He reaches for my hand. It is so sure and comforting, that healer's touch of his.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“In his face, I see the whole of my life. I see a baby who came to me long after I'd given up... and a hint of the beauty I once had. I see... my life in his eyes.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Isabelle smiled tiredly. They were so... larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude. Not at all like the Brits, who thanked her with clipped words and cool voices and firm handshakes. She's lost track of the times and American had hugged her so tightly she's come off her feet.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“He laid a hand to her cheek and it was warm and solid and comforting, that father's touch. She hadn't realized - or admitted to herself - how much she'd missed him.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale