bookishy

“Who are you, and what are you playing at?”
“Nikolai Lantsov, but please don’t make me recite my titles again. It’s no fun for anybody, and the only important one is ‘prince.’”
“And what about Sturmhond?” I asked.
“I’m also Sturmhond, commander of the Volkvolny, scourge of the True Sea.”
“Scourge?”
“Well, I’m vexing at the very least.”
I shook my head. “Impossible.”
“Improbable.”
“This is not the time to try to be entertaining.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“She talked like a woman who knew more books than people.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“In a different life, in a fair one, I would've kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust”
― Kaylie Smith, Phantasma

“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince