Kate Randolph > Kate's Quotes

“Fiction comes from truth. It is a wonderful, imaginative, flourishing thing grown from a seed of real feelings, real desires, real fears. No artist ever creates from nothing. We work from what we've experienced, inspired by the unique piece of the world we see. It's why art cannot be replicated.”
― Austin Siegemund-Broka, The Roughest Draft

“But the thing about quiet people is, we’re only quiet because our brains are so busy overthinking everything.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“It seems to me, Annie, that you are just waiting for someone to give you permission to be yourself out loud.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“This one is for the softies. The tenderhearted sweeties. The introverts who are afraid to shine.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“If I waited until I felt confident to live my life and do the things I want to do, I’d never live.” He stares into my eyes. “This lesson is one as old as time: Fake it till you make it. If you want something, pretend you’re the kind of person who’s not scared of it.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I am the quiet one in my family. The one with her nose always in a book because she prefers worlds where she doesn’t have to interact with other humans. It’s so much easier to read about relationships than to foster them. Less dangerous too.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I’m terrified to admit that holding her in my arms is the closest I’ve come to feeling truly happy in a very long time.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Why do I feel like I just missed out on an important opportunity?”
‘Because you did. Now, get lost, she’s mine.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Annabell, I need you to know, I’ve fallen madly in love with you.”
“But you don’t believe in love.”
“It was easier to say I don’t believe in love, rather than admitting to myself that I was afraid I wouldn’t be loved back.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“The problem is, you’re trying to rationalise your feelings. I have bad news for you, the heart wants what it wants, and there’s no talking it out of it.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“I’ve never wanted to crawl into someone’s head and read all of their thoughts like I do with Annie. My need to understand her, to know every desire, every hope and fear and longing, scares me.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Ask me to marry you.”
Elide began crying, even as she laughed. “Will you marry me, LorcanSalvaterre?”
He swept her up into his arms, raining kisses over her face. As if some final, chained part of him had been freed. “I’ll think about it.”
Elide laughed, smacking his shoulder. And then laughed again, louder.
Lorcan set her down. “What?”
Elide’s mouth bobbed as she tried to stop her laughing. “It’s just ... I’m Lady of Perranth. If you marry me, you will take my family name.”
He blinked.
Elide laughed again. “Lord Lorcan Lochan?”
It sounded just as ridiculous coming out.
Lorcan blinked at her, then howled.
She’d never heard such a joyous sound.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“You're afraid. Of yourself more than anyone else in the world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I love you,” he whispered in Elide’s ear. “I have loved you from the moment you picked up that axe to slay the ilken.” Her tears flowed past him in the wind. “And I will be with you …” His voice broke, but he made himself say the words, the truth in his heart. “I will be with you”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“She was fury, she was wrath, she was vengeance.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Because I am from Terrasen and believed my queen dead. And now she is alive, and fighting, so I will fight with her. So that no other girls will be taken from their homes and brought to Morath and forgotten.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“You survived; I survived. We’re together again. I once begged the gods to let me see you — if only for a moment. To see you and know you’d made it. Just once; that was all I ever hoped for.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Where is Aelin.
Where is my wife?”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Tell me that we’ll get through tomorrow. Tell me that we’ll survive the war. Tell me—” She swallowed hard. “Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we’ll burn in hell together.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I wish you to become who you ­were born to be. To become queen.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“To whatever end?” she breathed. Rowan followed her, as he had his entire life, long before they had ever met, before their souls had sparked into existence. “To whatever end, Fireheart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“I wanted you to be my partner for years, dumbass. When Karina had told me you were thinking about switching to pairs, I had thought you would say something to me, even in passing as a joke. I thought you would say you were going to kick my ass, and I had planned on talking to you over it. But you never did. The next thing I knew, you had a partner. Some dipshit that wasn’t half as good as you.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“But this isn’t just sex for me, Rachel,” Jake adds, his face solemn. “Hell, at this point, I’ll settle for just breathing your air. I’ll rub your feet on the couch after a long day. I’ll do your laundry. I’ll hold your purse while you shop for trail mix. That’s how crazy I am about you. I have to be me, and this is who I am. This is how I feel. Move in and be with me. With us. Whatever that looks like to you, we’ll figure it out. Just give me more than this nothing. I can’t bear another second of the nothing.”
― Emily Rath, Pucking Around

“You’re my dream.” He grabbed my perusing hand in his. “You’re the center of all my circles.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I hope you don’t expect me to go without you. We’re a package deal now. Where you go, I go. Till death parts us.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“Power came in many forms. Wealth, status, beauty, but the most cunning of all forms were secrets.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I would run through fire and burn for you. I would lose arm and leg and limb. I’d do it all over, knowing what would happen to me, if it meant eventually having you as I do now.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“You are what I want every morning when I wake, every need of my flesh, every dream when I close my eyes.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood

“I see you, Milla. I see all of you. The good, the better, and the best because there is no bad in you. You are enough.”
― Alexis L. Menard, House of Bane and Blood