Lia.booknest

“I’m in love with you.” Jonas pressed his forehead to mine. “I do not hold you on the surface of my heart, you are in the deepest pieces where I keep my worst fears. To lose you would mean facing pain so wretched it would destroy me. I would not survive it. Even if I was still breathing, I would no longer be me, and instead would become a cruel, violent, hopeless shell of the man I was.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Mist Thief

“I do not know what kings are like in your land, but in ours, we do not silence our queens.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Mist Thief

“Do not sell yourself short and think you are not the most formidable of foes. I’ve no doubt you have the power to destroy me.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Nesryn Sobbed, tugging and tugging.
Sartaq smiled at her ــ gently. Sweetly. In a way she had not yet seen.
"I Loved you before I ever set eyes on you," he said.
"Please," Nesryn wept.
Sartaq's hand tightened on hers. "I wish we'd had time."
A Hiss behind him, a rising bulk of shining black ــ
Then the prince was gone. Ripped from her hands.
As if he had never been.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Tower of Dawn