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“It doesn’t matter where I am; I’m yours.”
― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

“I’ve always loved you,” he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. “You know this.” She swallowed a lump in her throat. “I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion.”
“Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is,” he said with a quiet intensity. “What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.”
― Sherry Thomas, Tempting the Bride

“Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.”
― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

“Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.

- Leo”
― Sherry Thomas

“You can live forever for me.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Love will make you weak and indecisive, remember?" she murmured.
What a fool he had been. For a journey like theirs, love was the only thing that would make him strong enough.
"Don't ever listen to an idiot like me," he answered.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They’d grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she’d been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.”
― Sherry Thomas, Delicious

“You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.”
― Sherry Thomas, Ravishing the Heiress

“Fortune favors the brave."

Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!”
― Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea

“I live for you, and you alone.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“The prince set her down and dismissed his valet. The latter left with a bow and closed the door. Leaning against the wall, the prince pulled off his stockings. As he walked toward the amethyst tub, he yanked his shirt over his head.

He was lean and tightly sinewed. Her little bird heart thudded.

He glanced at her, his lips curved in not quite a smile. The next thing she knew, his shirt had flown through the air and landed on the cage, blocking her view toward the bathtub.

“Sorry, sweetheart. I am shy.”

She chirped indignantly. It was not as if she would have continued to watch him disrobe beyond a certain point.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“Tenderness, that most alien and disconcerting of emotions, swelled and billowed in her. She picked up a cherry and stared down at the soft, bright-red fruit. “I love you.”
The last time she'd declared her love he'd thrown it right back in her face. She waited uncertainly for his response. She didn't even have to wait a second. He leaned over and kissed her on the mouth. “I love you more.”

- Gigi and Camden”
― Sherry Thomas, Private Arrangements

“Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women

“Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea

“He glanced at her. “You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart.”

The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.”
― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

“He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.
Overnight, she'd become a fool.”
― Sherry Thomas, Private Arrangements

“I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.”
― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

“The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?"

"Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea

“Did this mean he was about to tell her something he wouldn’t normally? Her ears perked—figuratively, since her ears were now feather-covered holes in the sides of her head.

He laughed softly. “You know, you are almost enjoyable to talk to, when you do not say anything back.”

She willed the water in the tub to strike him in the face.

There was a loud splash. “Hey!” He sounded surprised, but not unpleasantly so. “Interesting. You are still capable of elemental powers. But stop—or I will feed you to the castle cats.”

She struck him again.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“The Inquisitor stared at him. “Your Highness, where is Iolanthe Seabourne?”

Right here in this room.

He was on guard, very, very much on guard. Yet he still felt his lips part and form the shape necessary to pronounce the first syllable of the truth. “I thought we had already established that I have neither interest in nor knowledge of your elemental mage.”

“Why are you protecting her, Your Highness?”

Because she is mine. You will have her over my dead body.”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky

“To the beginning of the rest of our lives.
—Leo”
― Sherry Thomas, Not Quite a Husband

“While I breathe, I hope,”
― Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky