Cristi > Cristi's Quotes

“In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don't like me, and I can pretend that I don't care. But for tonight, let me pretend you're mine.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“I was a woman when it was convenient to blame me, and a girl when they wanted to use me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“I let you die. To save myself, I let you die.
That is the danger in keeping company with survivors.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“There were always excuses for why girls died”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“They'd made the mistake of teaching him he could survive”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Be wary, Be clever, Be good”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“I’d be your King, but always your servant. Never your keeper.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King, and the monster they became.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine.

“What?” I can barely think.

“That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”

“I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

He kisses me harder.

“I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I want to tell you so many lies”
― Holly Black , The Wicked King

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“There’s always something left to lose.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Porque así fue la suerte.”
― Isabel Cañas, Vampires of El Norte

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“my world was a dark, windowless room, and he was a door.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“Family is all we have when things fall apart,”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“Should is an oddly powerful word. Shame and anger have a way of flying to it like coins to a lodestone.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda

“I was delighted to sit in the corner with my food and a book and speak to no one.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“If you do not admit kindness from others, you cannot be surprised when they fail to offer any.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries