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“But sometimes, if you wanted to... youre allowed to soften, Saeris. You're allowed to stop baring your teeth at the world and take a breath. Because I've got you."

"I'd spend the fortunes of the universe to protect you. I’d drain the seas dry. Fell every tree. I would sacrifice the sun from the fucking sky and surrender the stars, too, if I could. But those things aren't mine to give.
All I have is my life. It isn't much, but I’d spend it and consider the price small if it meant keeping you safe."

“My prince of shadows.
I had been born into the light, but my salvation had been waiting for me in the dark

“When other people are full of the kind of fire that burns inside her, it eats them alive. It hollows them out until there's nothing left inside them but the fire. They burn everyone around them with it, until all that remains is scorched earth. But not Saeris. Her fire keeps others warm in the cold dark. It is her strength, not her weakness. Being around her reminds you that you're alive."

“All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn't specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.”

“I didn't know your name. I didn't see your face. But I knew, Osha. My soul recognized a flicker of itself burning inside someone else and it knew.”

"I love you, and nothing else matters beyond that. Wherever you are, I'll beg the gods and all the fates to let me be there, too," I whispered.

"If someone had given me a piece of paper and asked me to list everything I liked, everything I dreamed of, everything that I was sure would make me happy, you would have been the final product of it."

It was hard to imagine that you could find a person, and they'd instantly become everything. That they'd take up all the space inside you and leave no room for doubt. Of course now… I’ve changed my mind.”

I can't put my finger on when I fell in love with him anymore. It just feels like I've loved him forever. Like our hearts have been intertwined for so long that cutting his from mine is causing me to bleed out.

Obviously, my ovaries don't know what my brain does. Men like Vaughn are bad news.

“I feel like I'm looking at the sun, blinding but so deliciously warm that I just close your eyes and bask in the glow anyway.”

Surprisingly, being a shitty, misguided person isn't enough to make a little girl stop loving her dad. But it is enough to make me lose respect for him. And that is a heart-wrenching combination... loving someone you can't respect.