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“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I’ve seen most of what there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell you the truth, the worst of them are the ones that make you afraid in the
light. The things that your eyes see plainly and can’t forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. Imagination has a poor memory; it slinks away and goes blurry. Eyes remember for much longer.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”
― Rachel Caine, Ash and Quill

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“How sade should it be that laughter should vanish from this place.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“I am simply one Hell of a butler”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Once drowned in the depths of darkness, you lose sight of light. When that light has dispersed there is no return. My light has died out long ago and so there’s nothing back for me to go back, or look forward to I shall continue to indulge myself in this darkness until it completely consumes me, then I will be nothing but an empty course left on this cold & cruel world to rot.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Death is like being born, but backwards. It only hurts for a little while, then a new life begins. A life with no sorrow, no pain, a glorious new beginning. A beginning that will last an eternity.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Moping around with sadness and sorrow… what will come of it? Even dead people can do that. However, I’ll live and stand on my own two legs. If we are going to die one day, wouldn’t it be better to have no regrets?”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“However far I fall as long as there’s so much as a thread left I will use it to climb. I’ll take hold of it. I refuse to give up while I’m still human I can do that much. But every person must decide on his own whether to grab it.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“I’m afraid when something is truly lost, one can never get it back again.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“You aren’t wrong. You fought to protect your world. What’s wrong with that? In the end, “justice” is just an official line taken by those in power to serve their own ends. No one’s looking out for others. If you’re careless, you’ll be robbed. There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who steal, and those who are stolen from. And today, I steal your futures. That’s all this is.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“There are some things you can never get back, no matter how much effort you put in. And there are some feelings of despair, that you can never ever shake off.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Yes, my lord. I devote my entire being to you. Until the day… that lies become truth.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Humans are easily tempted. When they are poised on the edge of hellish despair, and a spider-thin thread of salvation presents itself, they will invariably grasp it. No matter the human.”
― Yana Toboso, Black Butler, Vol. 1

“Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.”
― Yana Toboso

“My world slowed and I closed my eyes. “I am going to give you my heart now,” I whispered. “Please don’t break it again.”
― Jessica Verday, The Haunted

“At that moment - in that small, concise, perfectly clear moment of time - I knew. It was that moment I fell in love with him. It actually caused me to stop, and time froze for just a second. But that feeling was so right, and so strong, that I knew I wasn't wrong.”
― Jessica Verday, The Hollow

“If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me.”
― Jessica Verday, The Haunted

“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
― L.J. Smith, Witchlight

“Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!”
― L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness

“You know, you've never really cared about anyone," he said. "But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”
― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 2

“When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.”
― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 1

“Ash? Get bent and die.”
― L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness

“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“I have never been in love before," Julian said. "You're my first-and you'll be my only.”
― L.J. Smith, The Hunter