Keeping Alive Quotes

“Are you pushing for a reason?' Tairn asks.

'Can you give me one not to?'

'He cares for you. That's already hard enough for him.'

I scoff. 'He cares about keeping me alive. There's a difference.'

'Not for him there isn't.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“So,' he said wearily,' here we are, with the fate of our immortal world in the hands of an illiterate human.' His laugh was unpleasant as he hung his head, cupping his forehead in a hand, and closed his eyes. 'What a mess.'

Part of me searched for the words to wound him in his vulnerability, but the other half recalled all that he had said, all that he had done, but his head had snapped to the door before he'd kissed me. He'd known Amarantha was coming. Maybe he'd done it to make her jealous, but maybe...

If he hadn't been kissing me, if he hadn't shown up and interrupted us, I would have gone out into that throne room covered in smudged paint. And everyone- especially Amarantha- would have known what I'd been up to. It wouldn't have taken much to figure out whom I'd been with, especially not once they saw the paint on Tamlin. I didn't want to consider what the punishment might have been.

Regardless of his motives or his methods, Rhysand was keeping me alive. And he'd done so even before I set foot Under the Mountain.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“We don't get the best of life everytime.

Out of those, sometimes we have to stay with whatever life gave us and hope for the best.

Because out of those sometimes, many times

Just keeping the hope alive gives us the best of life.”
― Ratish Edwards

“I deserve this,' he said. 'I probably deserve a lot worse. But this is not the day to kill me. I'm trying very hard to keep you alive.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love