Seraphina Quotes

“How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.”
― Jessica Brody, Unremembered

“Fond and protective equals love? I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.”
― Rachel Hartman

“If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.”
― Rachel Hartman

“He sighed. "So I've gone and revealed how much I admire your work for nothing. Now you'll feel free to laze about self-importantly, I suppose!"
"Viridius, no," I said, stepping toward him and impulsively kissing his balding head. "I'm well aware that that's your job."
"Damned right," he grumpily. "And I've earned it, too.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I spent that many years thinking I was alone. Then you prance into my life, nearly giving me a paroxysm, and now you deign to tell me there are more.”
― Rachel Hartman

“I was inclined to leave love unspoken.”
― Rachel Hartman

“Are you in love with Prince Lucian?' screamed my uncle. 'What were you up to when I arrived? You weren't going to mate right here in the snow, were you?”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I think I've heard that ballad," I said. "It's beautiful but it ends sadly.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I am no longer hesitant.
I am ready.
I am fearless.”
― Jessica Brody, Unchanged

“Love is not a disease.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Books have entire worlds inside them. Magic and strength and inspiration and joy. What’s not to love”
― Linsey Hall, Infernal

“I did not understand that I carried loneliness before me on a plate, and that music would be the light illuminating me from behind.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“He’s silent for a few seconds staring back at me with his soulful blue eyes. Even though he never says a word I can feel his emotions rising up inside him. He reaches out to wipe the tear from my cheek and I feel his love for me, smell it, taste it, his love is intoxicating.”
― Sheena Hutchinson, Initiation

“I—I value your continued existence.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Everyone has their own path, everyone has a destiny. Your's just happens to be a little bigger than everyone else's.”
― Sheena Hutchinson, Initiation

“I'm not brainwashed." I wish everyone would stop using that word to describe me.
"That's exactly what someone who's been brainwashed would say.”
― Jessica Brody, Unchanged

“We all need to believe in something. It gives us a reason to get up in the morning. Something to fight for.”
― Jessica Brody, Unchanged

“When you remain perfect for too long, it stops being an accomplishment. Perfect becomes an expectation.”
― uru chan

“If I had a child, or if any descendant of mine had been harmed, I would burn through both realms just so I could flay the skin from the body of the one who’d hurt them.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Why is it you never know how much someone means to you until they are gone?”
― Sheena Hutchinson, Initiation

“Let the one who seeks justice be just.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“In short, she (Seraphina) had luck and judgment, but no morals.”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods

“Restated constructively, the end of the adventure already drags the course of the man; he (Cagliostro) is in love with satiety. But she (Seraphina) is in love with adventure. Her pitch is higher.”
― William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods

“You may not be Chosen, but you were born into this realm, shrouded in the veil of the Primals. A Maiden as the Fates promised. And you shall leave this realm touched by life and death,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I wasn’t the beacon of Royal purity, but rather the wolf dressed as the sacrificial lamb. I wouldn’t just fulfill the deal that King Roderick had struck. I would end it before it destroyed my kingdom.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I doubt you will find me so amusing when you’re gasping for the last of your breaths.”

He became still again, and…good gods, the water coursing down his chest froze. The droplets ceased. “I’m already gasping,” he whispered, his voice rougher, deeper. Confusion rippled along the flood of rage. Did he have some sort of breathing ailment? Could gods have health issues? If so, I doubted these cold waters would be good for his lungs. Not that I remotely cared for the condition of his lungs. Nor did I even know why I was wondering about their condition. A warm breeze lifted the strands of my wet hair and slipped over the chilled skin of my bare shoulders and my… Oh. The water only reached my waist here.

"In case you're wondering,"- his voice was a kiss against my skin- "this me intentionally staring”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“But you spoke with no fear. You acted fearlessly. Each time I saw you,” he continued. “You interested me, and I hadn’t expected that. I didn’t want that. But at that lake, you were just Seraphena,” he said, and my breath snagged at the sound of my name spilling from his lips. It was the first time he’d said it. “And I was just Ash. There was no deal. No perceived obligations. You stayed simply because you wanted to. I stayed only because I wanted to. You let me touch you because that was what you wanted, not because you felt as if you had to. Maybe I should’ve told you, but I was…enjoying myself with you. I wasn’t ready for that to end.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“The way I was Sera in these moments, and he was Ash to me. That was what I devoured. Greedily. Us. Because like at the lake, I knew it wouldn’t last.

And it didn’t.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Make him fall in love, become his weakness, and end him.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout