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“Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him, but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me.”
“It has to kill one of us,” Celia says quietly.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I wept because i had no shoes,
until i met a man who had no feet.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Guilt is a hunter.
Fate is a hunter.
Shame is a hunter.
Fear is a hunter.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It’s all your fault, the voice whispered.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“She is you, she is your mother, your father, your country. She is Poland.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

“I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Are you afraid?"

"Yes."

"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."

"I am still afraid.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“She runs. Not away, but toward.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“I wish to tell her I am sorry. I wish to take this cup from her hands. I wish for things that I can never have, and in that, I think perhaps I am closer to them than I ever have been.
And still a billion light-years away.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“I don't know my limit, but I'm scared to reach it. I don't know what will happen if I do. And I still can't sleep.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“It’s not the bullets that kill you. It’s moments like these. One piece at a time.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“How can she go so quietly into this long good night?”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“She was a thief, a runaway, a pirate, a magician.
She was fierce, and powerful, and terrifying.
She was still a mystery.
And he loved her.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I told you to keep him safe, not cuddle."
Alucard spread his hands behind him on the sheets. "I'm more than capable of multitasking”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“It doesn't matter what someone is. Only what they think they are.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Of all the ways to die, only a fool chooses pride.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Three Antari get on a boat...”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“No one suffers as beautifully as you do.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“You want me to ask you why you left? Why you chose the open sea over my bed? A criminal's brand over my touch? I didn't ask you, Alucard, because I don't want to hear them [your excuses]”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Sleep is for the rich and the bored.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Are you sure about him?" she asked.

"I am," he said, his voice so steady she wanted to lean against it.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“Delilah Bard—always a thief, recently a magician, and one day, hopefully, a pirate—was running as fast as she could.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“She’d ben teasing, but he clearly wasn’t.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light