Caroline > Caroline's Quotes

“I can't--I can't think about anything or anyone else," he whispered. A hand drifted up, dragging back through his hair. "I can't think straight when you're around. I can't sleep. It feels like I can't breathe--I just--"
"Liam, please," I begged. "You're tired. You're barely over being sick. Let's just... Can we just go back to the others?"
"I love you." He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. "I love you every second of everyday, and I don't understand why, or how to make it stop--"
He looked wild with pain; it pinned me in place, even before what he had said registered in my mind.
"I know it's wrong; I know it down to my damn bones. And I feel like I'm sick. I'm trying to be a good person, but I can't. I can't do this anymore.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“Give 'em hell, darlin”
― Alexandra Bracken, Never Fade

“God." He shook his head, mouth twisting into a shadow of a smile. "Did you know... you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breathe? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight... and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I think we could all use a little more weird in our lives.”
― Shannon Messenger, Exile

“Fitz grinned—and a girl who’d been watching him tripped over her own feet.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“I guess that makes sense. And by the way—your friends?” Amy glanced over her shoulder to take another peek at them. “Are they in a contest to see who can be the most gorgeous or something?”
Sophie had to laugh. “They might be.”
“It’s ridiculous,” Amy told her. “Especially Fitz’s family. I mean, seriously, who looks like that?”
“Only the Vackers,” Sophie assured her.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“If this year has taught me anything, it's that grief can destroy a person.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I’m tired of living without really living.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I’m not going far. I’ll always be here. Just an inch away. I promise.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I hope my life wasn’t for nothing,”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“...Don’t think about what you’ve lost. Think of how much you have to gain. Live, Stella.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“She’s bossy.” “Nah, she’s a boss,”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“If this is all we get, then let's take it. I want to be fearless and free," she says, giving me a look, daring me. "It's just life, Will. It'll be over before we know it.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first. And then I’ll die.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“It's just life, Will. It'll be over before we know it.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“If I'm going to die, I'd like to actually live first. And then i'll die”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I’m tired of living without really living. I’m tired of wanting things. We can’t have a lot of things. But we could have this.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“...I want to be fearless and free. It's just life, Will. It'II be over before we know it.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?"
"No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Can I help you with something?"
Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones