Valentine

“Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly had issues. Just looking at him made her wish she had a paintball gun, but hell, you couldn’t pack for every eventuality.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“It wasn't disgust she felt for Karou, not anymore; it was indignation. Incredulity. A man like Akiva crosses worlds to find you, infiltrates the enemy capital just to dance with you, bends heaven and hell to avenge your death, saves your comrade and kin from torture and death, and you send him off looking gut-punched, diminished, carved hollow?”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas