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“I saw what was coming, but I did not see what it would mean.”

- Dannie

“Something was either deeply wrong with Richard, or deeply wrong with me. Both possibilities were terrifying.”

“On the day we met, Richard had told me to never cut my hair. That was the first rule, masked as a compliment, that he’d set down.”

“I still don’t completely understand why he needed to control everything in his environment as precisely as he organized his socks and T-shirts.”

“I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift of an illusion. We all layer them over our remembrances; the filters through which we want to see our lives.”

“I’d asked you not to come back to New York for me, not to make me choose, but when it came down to it, I wondered if I’d choose you.”

-Lucy

“I need you to understand that I do really, truly love him. What he and I have isn’t perfect, but it is absolutely love.”

- Lucy

“I thought about how wonderful you made me feel, but also how awful. How you cared so much more about “yourself than you did about us. How in the end, your life was The Gabe Show, and to keep you I would’ve had to play the supporting actress to the star. I know it might be hard for you to hear this, but I’m just telling you the truth. That’s what I thought that day.”

- Lucy

“I have a feeling I was happier than you, because you were the one who left, who wanted to go. Even if you didn’t think about it in those same terms, clearly you were willing to take that risk—to see if you would be happier without me in your life, pursuing the career that you wanted.
Did it work?
Even for a little while?
I know it didn’t in the end.”

- Lucy

“I didn’t write back. I knew I wouldn’t be able to bear it if you ignored me again.”

- Lucy

“You were my comfort and my pain all at once.”

- Lucy

“There’s something about death that makes people want to live”

- Lucy

“With respect, Shrike, they were stupid bleeding orders,” Harper says. “Stop talking.”

- Harper

“Sometimes, Avitas,” I sigh, “I wish you’d say what you’re actually thinking.”

- Helene

“ I can survive long years without her if I know that at least she had a chance at life. I’d give up my time with her—I would—if only she would wake.”

- Elias

“For I was born to love. It was my calling, my purpose. Now it is my curse. I know love better than any other creature alive. Certainly better than a girl who gives her heart to whoever happens by.”

- The Nighbringer

“I thought I loved Keenan, but that love was born out of desperation and loneliness, out of a need to see myself, my struggles, in someone else.”

- Laia

“I know he’s trying to take over the world and all, but he still rocks a suit harder than a Balmain catwalk.”

- Hammie

“She was so beautiful. But beauty can make people forgive a thousand cruelties.”

- Emika

“Oh, he’ll come.” Skies, I hate her as I say it. He will come for her. He always will. As he never will for me.”

- Helene

“It’s damned stupid to fall for a once-dead ghost-talker, I don’t care how pretty he is.”

- Afya

“Go.” She shoves me toward Laia. “I’ll cover you this last time. But after this, I belong to him. Remember, Elias. After this, we’re enemies”

- Helene

“Do you think we would’ve worked out in the end?” she asks him.”

- Natasha

“Our history is too compressed. We’re trying to fit a lifetime into a day.”

- Natasha 😢

“He really is a keeper. He’s just not mine to keep.”

- Natasha

“I don’t think anyone’s ever been as happy to see anyone as Daniel is to see me”

-Natasha

“I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”

- Daniel

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. I like who I am with her.”

- Daniel 😍

“I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.”

- Daniel