Mariana Fernandes > Mariana's Quotes

“He would not rest until his country could too.
And he would never turn his back on a wounded man - even if that man was him.
'Nikolai Nothing', snarled the demon. 'Ravka will never be yours'.
Perhaps not. But if you loved a thing, the work was never done. 'Remember who you are'.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“It was the first time I'd said ‘survival’ aloud. Sam had survived. He’d survived, and I’d survived, too. Now we would survive together.”
― Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

“I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I’ve fallen for her.
And I’ve fallen.
So hard.
I’ve hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I’ve felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I’ve known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I’ve seen things that cannot be unseen.
And yet I’ve known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.
Love is a heartless bastard.
I’m driving myself insane.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“My eyes are filling fast with tears and I blink and blink but the world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can’t bear to see it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. The kind that takes forever and no time at all. His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,” and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever.
Because this.
This is everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The moments that follow my shrug are probably why it’s taken him so long to ask the question in the first place. It’s the moment I feel his heart come to a halt, the moment he presses his lips into my hair and sighs a breath he’ll never get back, the moment he realizes he has both arms wrapped around me but he still isn’t holding me. He hasn’t been able to hold me for a while now. It’s hard to hold on to someone who has long since slipped away.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“After dinner, Graham and I offer to do the dishes. He turns on the radio and we stand at the sink together. I wash and he rinses. He talks about work and I listen. When an Ed Sheeran song starts to play, my hands are covered in soapy suds, but Graham pulls me to him anyway and starts dancing with me. We cling to each other and barely move while we dance—his arms around my waist and mine around his neck. His forehead is pressed to mine and even though I know he’s watching me, I keep my eyes closed and pretend we’re perfect.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“Seeing him drunk makes me realize just how sad he looks now when he’s sober. I didn’t notice his sadness consumed him even more than it used to. I probably didn’t notice because sadness is like a spiderweb. You don’t see it until you’re caught up in it, and then you have to claw at yourself to try to break free.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“We’re all full of flaws. Hundreds of them. They’re like tiny holes all over our skin. And like your fortune said, sometimes we shine too much light on our own flaws. But there are some people who try to ignore their own flaws by shining light on other people’s to the point that the other person’s flaws become their only focus. They pick at them, little by little, until they rip wide open and that’s all we become to them. One giant, gaping flaw.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“The tears are nothing new, but they’re different this time. I’m not crying over something that never came to be. I’m crying for something that’s coming to an end.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion’s tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Why did you go to her?"
Because with her he was human again. How had she bested him? Sheer stubbornness. Something more. He's known a name for it once, a hundred lifetimes ago.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Why do you hide the demon?' Because it was angry, hungry, full of broken animal longing. And though Nikolai might not like it, those things were part of him still. 'Like calls to like.' He had fought the demon. Now he would feed it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“All of the stars in the sky are not as bright as my love for you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, King of Battle and Blood

“Do not tremble under the gaze of the Blood King. Surrender today, live to conquer tomorrow.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, King of Battle and Blood

“I told you kid... You're not a player. You're the glass ballerina--- or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“With my sword and with my life, I vow to keep you safe, Penellaphe,” he spoke, voice deep and smooth, reminding me of rich, decadent chocolate. “From this moment until the last moment, I am yours.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“When you listen to me, I think the stars will fall.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Nothing is ever simple. And when it is, it's rarely every worth it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I have a feeling that if there’s something you want badly enough, nothing will stop you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“We were enemies, no matter the truths. No matter that I loved him.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“I’ll give you the world,” he said against my mouth. “The moon. The fucking stars. Anything you ask, it’s yours. I’m yours.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“Because it was all you were willing to give me. And I’d rather have you hating me than not have you at all.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“When I finally kiss you, there won’t be any doubt in your mind that it is real.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception