Merry > Merry's Quotes

“You think I would not beg to run away with you? My duty may be to the king, but my heart, Pae, is wherever you are. It is in the palm of your hands, the pad of your thumb. So if you leave, I will follow. If you stay, I will bow. Because there has never been a moment when you did not own the only piece of me that mattered—loving you made me matter. And I ache to be full again.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“She wanted to be someone's love, not their curse.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“The rest of the world just disappears for you when you’re reading doesn’t it? Yes, thank God”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“Better and worse don’t matter with us—they don’t—because it’s all fucking better with you.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“He closed his eyes and focused on how good it felt to be with Shane, alone in the dark, and tried not to wish it could be the same in the light.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“Follow me?” Ilya smiled.
“Anywhere.”
― Rachel Reid, The Long Game

“I just want you to know that you deserve to be loved in the light, Niko. Just like everyone else.”
― Rina Kent, God of Fury

“He tastes like my own downfall and I’m ready to drown in it.”
― Rina Kent, God of Fury

“I missed him. I missed him to the point of insanity. I missed him until I couldn’t breathe.”
― Rina Kent, God of Fury

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“What’s wrong with the closet? It’s a wonderful place crammed full of professional athletes.”
― Rachel Reid, Game Changer

“The system is broken when a man can commit a crime and still qualify for the presidency.”
― Adam Silvera, The Survivor Wants to Die at the End

“to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I don’t know who I would be without you, but you have made me in all ways better than I ever was or could have ever hoped to be.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I grew something living in a season of death.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I rarely share this part of my life with others, but I want to tell it to you now. A piece of armor, because I trust you. A glint of falling steel, because I feel safe with you.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals