But then again, that was our entire relationship. He’d raised me to look at the bars of my cage and call them trees.
“I thought I was broken, but maybe my soul was just lying dormant, stopping me from experiencing anything good in this fucked up world. But you’ve awakened me, Elise, and I can't go back to sleep.”
― Broken Fae
― Broken Fae
“Sometimes people do exactly what you think they’re going to do, and they still manage to disappoint you.”
― The Inmate
― The Inmate
“I just want someone to make my heart beat faster,” she said in a low voice that had me drawing closer to her as I looked into her dark eyes. “To challenge me and make me laugh and push back against my bullshit. I want to be forced out of my comfort zone and I want to feel excited, exhilarated, afraid. But not just because you’re an asshole. Because I want to feel alive.”
― The Reckoning
― The Reckoning
“I guessed sometimes you had to watch your walls crack and crumble so you could figure out how to build a better kingdom.”
― Fated Throne
― Fated Throne
“Life marks us all in one way or another.” Sebian dunked the cloth into the water. “The only scars truly ugly are usually the ones on the inside, anyway.”
― Feathers So Vicious
― Feathers So Vicious
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