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“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“She made it,” I whisper up to Liam.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Before, I never knew how far I would go. Now I believe I have the answer. I will go as far as there is to go. I will go way too far.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“There’s always something left to lose.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.” “Gravity,” he whispers, a slow, beautiful smile curving his mouth. “The one force we can never escape,” I tease.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited. “We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures. “You never let me have any fun.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I love you,” I whisper. “You could throw my entire world into upheaval, and I would still love you. You could keep secrets, run a revolution, frustrate the shit out of me, probably ruin me, and I would still love you. I can’t make it stop. I don’t want to. You’re my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I could torch him if you would like,” Tairn offers. “But you do seem attached.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
“No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
"I can't.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I haven’t exactly made it easy for you to trust me,” he says, stroking his thumb over my cheek. “I’m still not making it easy. But you and I are not easy people. What we build together has to be strong enough to withstand a storm. Or a war. Easy isn’t going to give that to us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I do. I’m sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I’m not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet— me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I am yours.” His arm wraps around the small of my back, holding me steady and close. “You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I’m in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I’m grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won’t have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side. It’s a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you’re stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You’re capable of hurting me in ways I’m not sure you’ve even begun to fathom, Violet. I might be skilled enough to land a death blow, but you alone have the power to fucking destroy me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I love you. The world does not exist for me beyond you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Touch me and I swear to the gods, I’ll cut your fucking hands off and let the quadrant sort you out in the next round of challenges, Dain Aetos.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You do not have the right to burn what is mine.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“But I’m begging you, Violet. Don’t offer me your body unless you’re offering me everything. I want you more than I want to fuck you. I want those three little words back.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“She would rather live a hundred lives in three years than waste the little time she had left in these realms.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“If you seek power in a world of men and monsters, there is nothing more powerful than knowledge and the ability to wield it.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“The beautiful alchemist would be his beginning – and his end.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“For three short years was no time at all for a woman to become what she wanted. A legend.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel