The Bookish Bunch discussion

“Tears are a woman’s weapon.”

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?"
- Julia, The Secret History

"My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me." –Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
-The Cruel Prince

“Winning at love was less about succeeding in a battle and more about continuing to fight, to choose the person you loved as the one you were willing to die for, over and over.”
- The Ballad of Never After

“I salute your spunk, but I question your sanity”

“Why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve?” - Jennifer Lynn Barnes - The Inheritance Games

Thanks Addison! I also forgot to quote it, it’s from the Diviners (Libba Bray)

“If you do this, time will take something of equal value from you”
“There is nothing of equal value to me.”
-once upon a broken heart

"We never joke about bunnies, Bunny." - Mona Awad, Bunny

"Nervousness means there’s a fear to be faced ahead, Diago. The man who is never nervous, never does anything hard. The man who is never nervous, never grows."
- James Islington, The Will of the many

"You broke my heart, and you weren't even there to witness it." - King Of Greed

"Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play."
- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

Break my heart, break it a thousand times. It was only ever yours to break anyway. -Kiera Cass, the Selection

Look, I didn't want to be a high school senior. -Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson, the Chalice of the Gods

By you, I am forever undone. -Holly Black, Cardan Greenbriar, the Cruel Prince

“When everyone says you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
Kaz Brekker, Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo

"i don't hate you. i just hate that i keep hoping we will find our way back to each other again. i don't hate you. i just hate that my heart keeps breaking because of you. i don't hate you. i just hate the fact you aren't hurting as much as i am. i don't hate you but i think i am starting too."

"She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out."
Caraval by Stephanie Garber

"So?" he prodded.
She blinked. "So what?"
"Was it a good dream?"
"Oh." Her lips puckered in thought, but then she realized he was teasing her. She scowled. "To be frank, I found it rather dull."
"Ah, but you can't be Frank. You've already told me that your name is Catherine."
"Ive changed it."

Heartless by Marissa Meyer ♥️

“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods of tears and despair and make it through the potholed streets of life.”

-The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks