Sam

“I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“So what if it’s not pretty?” Serel added, as if he could hear my skepticism. “None of the best things are.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Be careful, Crimson.”

“I'm always careful.”

“I don't know . . .” He pulled way just enough for her to see his mouth twitch at the corner. “A careful girl wouldn't say she loved me.”

“You're wrong. I don't think my heart could be safer than in your hands.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“Sometimes, in moments like this, there was so much I wanted to say to Max that the prospect of forcing all of that emotion into mere syllables seemed laughable. I had spent my entire life being ripped from what I loved. My heart never could grow roots, because every few years they would be hacked away. You learn to live without them. You learn to find love where it doesn’t exist, like in the superficial kindnesses of a cruel man. You learn to accept the loss as a part of you, and pretend you don’t mourn every severed connection.
I had forgotten that it was possible for the roots of someone’s affection to run so deep, so solid. I could build a life in the branches of this tree. I could cradle a generation’s future nestled in its leaves.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods