Aish

“He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

“If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.” Luc flicks his fingers. “What nonsense,” he says. “It is because I love you that I won’t. Love is hungry. Love is selfish.” “You are thinking of possession.” He shrugs. “Are they so different? I have seen what humans do to things they love.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The girl he loved is gone, and he is still here... He's glad to have it [the 6 notebooks filled with Addie's story, her life], because the truth is he is already fogetting. When you are the only one holding on to a memory, a girl, It's hard to keep it from floating away.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I feel like I could crumble under the weight of not wanting to disappoint you. I’m paralyzed by my fear of losing you.”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless