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“A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care,” I murmured to myself. “It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
“As she watches him walk away, the answering squeeze of her heart is as distressing as it is painfully familiar. How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it?”
― A Far Wilder Magic
― A Far Wilder Magic
“All her life, love has been a scarce and precious resource, something earned or denied, something she starved for every day. But with Wes, love is different. It is reckless and inexhaustible. It is freely given. It simply is. Time and time again, he’s stayed beside her through her doubt. He’s shown her that she is enough, lovable despite her fears and her walls. That she is more than what happened to her and the pains she’s taken to avoid it happening again. And now, he’s given her the chance to prove it to herself.”
― A Far Wilder Magic
― A Far Wilder Magic
“You want to know the truth, Vivian? If I loved you as much as he claims to love you, nothing would’ve stopped me from keeping you.”
― King of Wrath
― King of Wrath
“Or did you always love the memory of him more than you loved the reality of me?”
― A Far Wilder Magic
― A Far Wilder Magic
“It’s not only that she’s terrifying and wild. It’s not that he wants her in spite of her plainness or that she’s driven him mad or ensorcelled him. It is so much more than that. How could he have been so blind for so long? Margaret Welty is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and he is completely, hopelessly in love with her.”
― A Far Wilder Magic
― A Far Wilder Magic
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