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“Why are you being so good to me?” His mouth sank, and his brows knitted together. “Because you deserve it.” He said it as if it was obvious, and she felt her heart swell with rosy warmth. “You deserve everything.”
― Kayla Edwards, City of Gods and Monsters

“Since she’d walked into his world and flipped it upside down. Or maybe it was finally right-side up, and he’d been upside down all his life.”
― Kayla Edwards, City of Gods and Monsters

“I will always love you, I will love you until the day I die—and if you’re the one to kill me, then by all means, you should know without a trace of doubt that you will not have turned me away. I will have spent the final beat of my heart loving you, just as I always have. Only you, Masha,” he said, and she bent in anguish, resting her forehead against the still-sluggish motion of his chest while he gathered her in his arms, eternally hers. Even now, eternally familiar. “Only you, forever, I promise.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Write me a tragedy, Lev Fedorov,” she whispered to him. “Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the pages by heart. Isn’t that a story, too?”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“What would it be like, Sasha wondered, to live in a world where no meant no?”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“you are not incomplete because a piece of your heart is gone. You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you can only be richer for it—you don’t become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“She was soft and unbending, delicate and impossible in his hands. She was power, and powerful, and full of little intricacies that he felt with a sudden thrill of fear he’d never fully know because it would be like counting the stars, like naming grains of sand, and there could never possibly be enough time for any of it.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“He had loved her with the whole of his being, as if he’d been made to do it; as if he’d been crafted that way by some divine hand.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“It was more like there was a sliver of space between him and the outside world and she had unassumingly filled it, less like a piece fitting into the vacancy of another and more like liquid being poured into a cup.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Part of Regan irrationally resented the girl for not knowing that Aldo Damiani was closest to handsome when he was talking about bees.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“That I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Flaws, she thought, were just vacancies to be filled.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“She couldn’t prevent the urge to know his thoughts. She wanted to lace them between her fingers, to root them in her hands, to twine them around her limbs until he’d secured her within the invisible web of his carefully ordered madness.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Yes it does, he doesn’t want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“I have to tell myself, every day, get up. Get up, do this, move like this, talk to people, be normal, try to be social, be nice, be patient. On the inside I just feel like, I don’t know, nothing. Like I’m just an algorithm that someone put in place.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“He woke me up, she wanted to scream; he woke me, and for that I will always rely on him, I will be to him what he is to math, and can’t you see how fragile that is? Can’t you see how intangibly I exist, and how perilously? Can’t you see that I—the me that I am right now, sitting here with you at this moment—am a figment of his imagination? He dreamt me into being. He can always undream me, unbelieve me. He can unmask me, and then what will be left? Will I always fear him as much as I love him? Will I always be only one half of his whole? What are soulmates, and am I one, or am I just a parasite, a leech, a cancer that spreads and takes hold and takes pleasure in choking us both?”
― Olivie Blake, Alone with You in the Ether

“This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. I suppose both are a sort of gentle violence, putting down in ink what scorches the air when spoken aloud.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“I lost myself so entirely in charting the contours of my love for you that there wasn’t any room for tracking time. There wasn’t any room to examine the past or the future; there was only the eternal now.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“It would be easier if he hated us,” she said. “But he loves us all terribly. And if we go on letting him love us, that love is going to kill us. That’s what makes him so dangerous.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“We three were made to fit together, and I am not entirely myself unless I am nestled between the two of them. We are children of the same rotten family, survivors of the same intimate war. We will always be lovers, for ever bonded, across distance and time.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“I guess it’s mostly women who do it. But sometimes you meet a girl who is just, like, your soulmate. Not in a romantic way, but in a friend way. Which can almost be more intense.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“And people hate that quality in a young woman, don’t they? They don’t know what to do with a girl who isn’t looking for their approval. They feel like they have to bring her down a peg.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“People don’t believe women who fight back. When a man lashes out, people say he’s lost control of his temper or made a terrible mistake. When a woman does it, she’s a psychopath.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“Typical. Men always believe each other.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“That victory meant another’s defeat, and sometimes our own defeat. That winning meant sacrifices, and sometimes ones that even our own people were not willing to make. That in war, someone always paid.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“It was amazing, the mental somersaults minds and hearts could do to justify their actions in the name of love.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“The things men will do in pursuit of their egos. If they’ll tear down countries for it, maybe they could do something good with it, too.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles