Clarke Valerie > Clarke's Quotes

“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Who will write our story, Jase?
We will, Kazi. You and I will write our own story.
And side by side, every day, that is what we do.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“This was the beginning - and I was ready to be bold".”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“That's what I love about you, Heiress." Jameson had a habit of tossing out words that should matter like they didn't at all.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I don't do vulnerable," Thea retorted. "It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Hit me with all those thinky thoughts,”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“I guess that’s what happens,” Jameson said, his eyes never leaving mine as his lips curled upward, “when you take a very risky gamble.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“If you had a baby…,” I said. “When I have a baby,” came the deep, heart-shattering reply, “she’ll be my whole world.” “She?” I repeated. Nash settled back into his seat. “I can picture Lib with a little girl.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― 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

“We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Will you forever be the prize I am aimlessly trying to win"
"Is that all I am to you? A trophy?"
"Oh, darling, a trophy implies that I won it, earned it, deserve it." He leans in farther, a certain reverence in his gaze. "But if i get to have you, it will be because you let me.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“She said I could touch her when I was sober”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“Remind me to make you smile like that again, when you aren’t dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorize it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important.
Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.
I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn’t seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is. “Blue,”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I’ve been stabbed a thousand times . . . but none of that hurts more than hearing you say goodbye.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“It’s the parts you don’t seem to like about yourself that I love the most.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“You think I would watch you die, for the sword? Did you think I would make any choice that wasn’t you?”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“I wish you could see yourself the way I do. You would never doubt yourself again.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“oh, hearteater, he said. you and me . . . we're infinite. Death doesn't stand a chance.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“The girl has a name—and a title,” Oro said, his voice cutting through the room. “You will address her with the respect you give all rulers, or I will use you as kindling for the castle hearth.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“No. It . . . it became my favorite, after . . . after—”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“If you hurt her,” he said, voice lethally calm, “she will kill you. And then I will find a way to revive you so I can kill you again with my own bare hands.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane