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“Sometimes the people you love turn your love against you, and it’s the most brutal weapon in the world.”
― Eva Ashwood, Twisted Game

“Fear not the fall, but the life that comes from having never leaped at all.” I smile through my tears. “I’ll always leap if the jump leads me to you, Noah Riley. Always.” “And forever.” “I swear.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I will not die today.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“And when others are quick to stand in front of me, Xaden always stands at my side, trusting me to hold my own.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“God can warn me all he wants, but that doesn’t mean I have to listen.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“Jealousy is a word with too many meanings. It’s a TARDIS of a word, bigger on the inside, a small, mean thing on the surface, but a complicated dance of emotions and negotiations within. I’m suffering with every single meaning of the word jealous.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“What’s the point of sex if you don’t feel like every dark crevice of your soul has been exposed to the light? If someone doesn’t take your lust and your shameful thoughts, and twist them into a spell that leaves you panting like a dog for more? I think I want that for myself.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband’s heart in his hands and he doesn’t even know it. He’s too busy looking at the details of Ash’s faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“If you were the last person on Earth, Abilene, then I would learn to love sheep instead. Get the fuck out of my house.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I wanted to tell Ash that loving him was like a scar, like a disease, it would always be there, I’d never be cured of it, and I didn’t want to be.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I missed it the way you miss the sun after a long stretch of cloudy days, where you begin to forget the cloudiness, forget to miss the sun, and then one day it comes back to you so hot and clear and bright that you wonder how you ever lived without it.”
― Sierra Simone, American Prince

“I can’t tell what’s the best way to love you, whether it’s trying to catch you or to let you go.”
― Sierra Simone, American King

“If you don’t hold yourself on a pedestal, then who will?”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“The problem is, I don’t know how to stop pretending.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Most men don’t realize this,” she said once, “but us girls, we have toolboxes too. Ours aren’t stuffed with hammers and wrenches and screwdrivers. We have these.” She gave her boobs a squeeze. “And this.” Then tapped at her temple. “And there’s no greater power than tits and brains, baby girl.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“How much you break is entirely up to you.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“If you are not the most interesting person you know, then you're doing it wrong.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“She’ll checkmate your ass before you even know you’re sitting at the board.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“I’m a china cup that has been broken so many times that I’m never sure if I’m a cup or just separate pieces held together by glue and sheer determination, molded into a cup-like shape. I know how to crack and I know how to mend.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“To all the girls who have broken and mended.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“It’s either her or you, brother. You should always pick you.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“Once you know you can lose something, it’s hard to dismiss the fear that you could lose it again.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“Women fascinate me. They are almost always underestimated, which makes them potentially some of the most lethal opponents.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“It is a mortal sentiment, taking things for granted, missing something that is lost, but I understand it more than ever.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“Women fascinate me. They are almost always underestimated, which makes them potentially some of the most lethal opponents. Like walking up to a jungle cat thinking you’re going to give its head a gentle little pat and instead it bites off your whole goddamn arm.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“Let’s dry our eyes and go murder our mother.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“Charlotte, listen to me. You are a smart, beautiful, confident woman. You don’t need me to tell you what you want. I want to hear it from you. You deserve pleasure just as much as I do, and trust me, I want nothing more than to hear you utter the dirtiest words, and then I want to do whatever it is you say. So say it.”
― Sara Cate, Praise