Yuri Quotes

“Only he looked to the stars and demanded more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Blessing and curse are different words for the same thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I'm afraid of being loved. Because "I love you this way" means the same thing as "I won't love you anymore if you stop being this way", doesn't it?”
― Nio Nakatani, Bloom into You, Vol. 6

“Nikolai thought he understood. There had been a time when words had been the only place he could find solace. No book ever lost patience with him or told him to sit still. When his tutors had thrown up their hands in frustration, it was the library that had taught Nikolai military history, strategy, chemistry, astronomy. Each spine had been an open doorway whispering, Come in, come in. Here is a land you've never seen before. Here is a place to hide when you're frightened, to play when you're bored, to rest when the world seems unkind. Yuri knew that solace. He had once been a scholar. Perhaps he'd like to be one again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Love doesn't mean 'I never want you to change.' But I don't think it means 'I don't care if you change,' either. So I suppose it might mean... 'I believe that you'll always be the person I adore.' A declaration of faith.”
― Nakatani Nio, Bloom into You (やがて君になる), Vol. 7

“You're someone I need to protect. You're not the most important magical girl in the world, you are the most important girl in the world-to me.”
― Park Seolyeon

“Mavelin realized there and then that her favorite part of Karen’s face were her eyes. She could stare into them and get lost in a world only the two of them could enter.”
― Justin Villanueva, Invalid Hunter

“Things were immediately dull once Bogdan and Tamas had ridden away. Night was worse, with no brothers bickering down the hall. And breakfast was altogether too grim and much too quiet.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“There was never a time they were lost or strayed that Nikolai had not found them and brought them home, only this time was the worst, it was by far the worst.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“If he owned a tower in the middle of a forest full of goblins, he would not leave its gates standing open or let its walls grow over with climbable vines like that.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“He shut his eyes and looked away, and had to look back, at the poles, and the dreadful skulls. He felt cold all over, and his heart was thumping from shocks.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror

“There were times, if one was a boy, it was a good idea not to be noticed.”
― C.J. Cherryh, The Goblin Mirror