Amie > Amie's Quotes

“Do you think that I don’t know what darkness is?” I said. “Why? Because I smile too much? Because I talk too much? It’s my choice to be the way that I am. A choice that I make even when it’s hard. That doesn’t make me weak, Asar.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“I may be the serpent, but even snakes run for cover when hawks soared overhead.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“She was killing me. We were killing each other. And if this was how it had to go, then I wanted — I wanted so fucking badly — to burn up with her here. Let our bones lie together.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“There you are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Home was a pair of mismatched eyes, an accented voice, and a heartbeat that followed the same cadence as mine. And I was so, so homesick.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“I’ll tell you what you’ll have if you lose the sun, Mische. You’ll have a soul gentler than any vampire’s I’ve ever known. You’ll have an incredible magic and the skill to wield it better than the bastard who gave it to you. You’ll have a soft heart and a sharp wit and the wisdom to know when to use one or the other. You’ll have countless inane questions and horrible taste in food and a penchant for making lost souls love you.” I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t speak. He leaned closer until his forehead touched mine. “And if you’ll take it, Mische Iliae, you will have me, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“We had carved out these small, intimate spaces for each other in our lives, and by some miracle of human denial, neither of us had thought about what that would inevitably mean. Now, for the first time, I realized the breadth of the gaping absence we would leave in each other.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“To give someone that much of yourself. To give someone the power to destroy you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Because here, in this moment, with me on the right side of death and her on the right side of living, lost in a tearful embrace hello instead of goodbye, we met each other on level ground.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Whatever you wish to give me,” he repeated, slowly, like he wanted to make sure I understood. “I’ll have it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“The temples were beautiful,” Caduan said, quietly. And he paused, as if remembering, a mournful smile at his lips. Then he looked back at the fire, and it was gone. “But when the humans came, they crumbled just as easily as the brothels. And the scholars and the whores ended up in the same graves.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Run, a voice inside me whispered. Stay, another begged.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“No one deserves to be put on a pedestal. They won’t climb down to save you, and if you’re looking up at them, you’re not looking ahead at what’s coming for you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“One hundred and eighty thousand days, and I thought of you in every one.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“The way I look at it", he said, very solemnly, so quietly that his words slipped into the air like steam, "you didn't forget what you were. I think you remembered. And I hope no one ever again has the fucking audacity to tell you otherwise.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Strange, how being so exposed can make a soul feel so very safe.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“We crashed together into beautiful damnation.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“Strange, that these Marks supposedly branded us as innate enemies. And yet, they were obvious mates to each other.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I was everything I was meant to be. My father’s daughter. Victim and protégée. Greatest love and ruination.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Moth, breaker of flowers, spy glasses, pitchers, and hearts," Max mused, shaking his head. "He is your apprentice after all, Sammerin."
"He's a little smitten, I think. But I suppose it can't be helped." And I tried not to notice how Sammerin's gaze slid to Max as he said, "When I saw that red dress, I knew we were all in trouble.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“You’re sweet,” she said. “Prickly, but sweet. In an acidic sort of way. Like… like a pineapple.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Every Nightborn King, after all, was crowned on a throne of corpses.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“The kiss was like a thunderstorm over the summer desert—a torrent that swept in all at once, obliterating the heat, so all-consuming that suddenly you remember nothing but the rain. All at once, he was everywhere.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“I’m patient,” he murmured. “A man can’t rush worship.” And gods, that was what he was doing. Worshipping.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“It’s not all that hard to keep yourself sane, so long as you’re flexible with your definition of the term.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“For every lost soul who just needs someone to listen”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Songbird & the Heart of Stone

“When Max believes in something, he gives it his whole self. It’s his greatest strength and greatest weakness. And you, Tisaanah, were the first thing he had believed in for a long, long time. It takes more than four walls to break that kind of faith.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Sometimes, in moments like this, there was so much I wanted to say to Max that the prospect of forcing all of that emotion into mere syllables seemed laughable. I had spent my entire life being ripped from what I loved. My heart never could grow roots, because every few years they would be hacked away. You learn to live without them. You learn to find love where it doesn’t exist, like in the superficial kindnesses of a cruel man. You learn to accept the loss as a part of you, and pretend you don’t mourn every severed connection.
I had forgotten that it was possible for the roots of someone’s affection to run so deep, so solid. I could build a life in the branches of this tree. I could cradle a generation’s future nestled in its leaves.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods