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“She smiled at last. And damn if it didn't kill him, the quiet joy in her face.
They had walked out of darkness and pain and despair together. They were still walking out of it. So that smile... It struck him stupid every time he saw it and realized it was for him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“What's the secret to a perfect marriage?' The old man leaned forward and looked at me very seriously. 'Our marriage hasn't been perfect. No marriage is perfect. There were times when she gave up on us. There were even more times when I gave up on us. The secret to our longevity is that we never gave up at the same time.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“—¿Y cómo me ves tú a mí?
—Como un misterio.
—Ese es el cumplido más raro que me han hecho nunca.
—No es un cumplido. Es una amenaza.
—¿Y eso?
—Los misterios hay que resolverlos, averiguar qué esconden.
—A lo mejor te decepcionas al ver lo que hay dentro.
—A lo mejor me sorprendo. Y tú también.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“—Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro —replicó Julián.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, La sombra del viento

“Cada palabra que has escrito. Tú y yo, Tess, somos parecidos. Nosotros vivimos y respiramos palabras. Fueron los libros los que me impidieron quitarme la vida después de que pensé que nunca podría amar a alguien, que nunca sería amado por alguien. Fueron los libros los que me hicieron sentir que, quizás, no estaba completamente solo. Ellos podían ser completamente honestos conmigo y yo con ellos. Leyendo tus palabras, lo que tú escribiste, cómo te sentías sola en ocasiones y temerosa, pero siempre valiente. Por la forma en que veías el mundo, sus colores, texturas y sonidos, sentí… sentí la forma en que tú pensabas, esperabas, sentías, soñabas. Sentí que estaba soñando, pensando y sintiendo contigo. Soñé lo que tú has soñado, quise lo que tú has querido… y entonces me di cuenta de que, lo que realmente quería, eras tú. La chica detrás de las palabras garabateadas. Te amo desde el momento en que las leí. Aún te amo.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Y juró ante su tumba que ella nunca renunciaría al amor,”
― Laura Esquivel, Como agua para chocolate

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Her sadness had given her a serenity which had not been there before. It was as if she had learned a hard lesson: that chances in life would not fall into her lap like ripe cherries.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“He picked her up and sank onto the warm oven-bench with her in his arms. He was gentle. His breath was the winter wind, but his flesh was warm, and his heart beat under her hand.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“It is time to put aside dreaming. Fairy tales are sweet on winter nights, nothing more.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“The world is wide, and the road will take us anywhere.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“There was a time, not long ago When flowers grew all year When days were long And nights star-strewn And men lived free from fear”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“There was a time, not long ago
When flowers grew all year
When days were long
And nights star-strewn
And men lived free from fear”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“I go to church, Father,” she replied. “Anna Ivanovna is not my mother, nor is her madness my business. Just as my soul is not yours. And it seems to me we did very well before you came; for if we prayed less, we also wept less.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Before the end, you will pluck snowdrops at midwinter, die by your own choosing, and weep for a nightingale.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Why won't you die?"
"because I have a story I was meant to live. And not even you can unwrite it.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“The bond of our hearts spans miles, memory, and time.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“I know," my lips said.
I know, my head said.
I want him, my heart said.”
― Nadine Brandes, Romanov

“The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“There were no tears in her. The wound went too deep, or she was not so constituted to give way to it. Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“And Ross again knew himself to be happy-in a new and less ephemeral way than before. He was filled with a queer sense of enlightnment. It seemed to him that all his life had moved to this pinpoint of time down the scattered threads of twenty years; from his old childhood running thoughtless and barefoot in the sun on Hendrawna sands, from Demelza's birth in the squarlor of a mining cottage, from the plains of Virginia and the trampled fairgrounds of Redruth, from the complex impulses which had governed Elizabeth's choice of Francis and from the simple philosophies of Demelza's own faith, all had been animated to a common end-and that end a moment of enlightenment and understanding and completion. Someone--a Latin poet--had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, here and now, past and present and to come. He thought: if we could only stop here. Not when we get home, not leaving Trenwith, but here, here reaching the top of the hill out of Sawle, dusk wiping out the edges of the land and Demelza walking and humming at my side.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“At that, his smile faded and he kissed her. “Ross,” she said. “Dear Ross.” “I love you,” he said, “and am your servant. Demelza, look at me. If I’ve done wrong in the past, give me leave to make amends.” So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“That’s all that matters. The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and—and to love in return. People who haven’t got it—or had it—don’t believe that, but it’s the truth.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. He had no sentimental notions about the sea; he had no regard for its dangers or its beauties; to him it was a close acquaintance whose every virtue and failing, every smile and tantrum he had come to understand.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

“The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water’s edge.”
― Winston Graham, Ross Poldark