Kate Schilling > Kate's Quotes

“It was more beautiful than I had ever imagined it would be, being inside the darkness with him.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“Vesta Valdera," he started, his voice breaking as he said my name, “before I met you, I always felt like I was running—like I was never really home. But when I fell in love with you, I finally felt like I belonged somewhere. I love you more than I ever imagined I could love someone, and I will spend the rest of my life showing you how much. Will you marry me?”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“I let out a sigh as I read, trying to forget everything for a few hours as I dove into a fictional world where monsters didn’t haunt me, where fathers didn’t leave their kids to starve, and where I didn’t pine for a boy who had been thrown in my life by circumstance, who I may not ever get to love me back.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“Maybe these circumstances entwined our lives even more--two fatherless kids trying to survive in a world that wasn’t made for us to thrive.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“In another life, I think I would’ve liked to have been your sister,” I smiled at her.

“In another life, I think I would’ve liked that, too,” she answered, squeezing my hand in hers.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“I inhaled his freedom like the pages of a never-ending book, the prose of his life holding me together when the power became too much.”
― Kate Vianne Sheridan, Thrones of Ash and Arrows

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights: Includes eBook, Library Edition

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable."
"Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton’s attachment more than mine. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“...there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“...to have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift. Even if we are not together, to know that, for you, I am that man is a source of sustenance to me.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Take him to you, if you must, my love, but don’t love him. Please don’t love him.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Last Letter from Your Lover