β
To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. βTo the stars who listenβ and the dreams that are answered.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
β
Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.
"Donβt let it worry you," said Ron. "Itβs me. Iβm extremely famous.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustnβt forget it. You become responsible forever for what youβve tamed. Youβre responsible for your rose.
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
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But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
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Anne BrontΓ«
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Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7))
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
β
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Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
β
Iβd said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
β
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
β
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
β
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Alphonse Karr (A Tour Round My Garden (1856))
β
To the stars who listenβand the dreams that are answered.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Dimitri: "Why did you come here?"
Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
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There are good days and hard days for meβeven now. Donβt let the hard days win.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
β
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Beautiful and Damned)
β
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
β
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Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)
β
He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."
He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:
"Rose is in red
But never in blue
Sharp as a thorn
Fights like one too.
β
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Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))
β
I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting
β
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Charles Bukowski
β
Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
β
No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.
β
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Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2))
β
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
I don't know. I don't actually remember anything from before the surgery."
His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. "The cybernetic opetation?"
"No, the sex change."
The doctor's smile faltered.
"I'm joking.
β
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Marissa Meyer (Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1))
β
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
β
β
Rose Wilder Lane
β
My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potentialβ"
Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?"
Kirova: "Guardian Belikov is the Princess Lissa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian."
Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?
β
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
β
If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldnβt stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate, my mate, my mate.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
β
β
J.M. Barrie
β
You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you."
My tongue warred with my mind. "Today," I whispered.
Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. "Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Forever.
β
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Michelle Hodkin (The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1))
β
Rhysand stared at me for long enough that I faced him.
"Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
β
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
β
β
Toni Morrison (Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2))
β
I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of usβbecause you werenβt afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassianβs spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, βIf you donβt marry her, you stupid prick, I will.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
what's your name?"
what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.
you know my name."
I want you to tell me."
Rose. Rose Hathaway."
Do you know your birthday?"
Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"
Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,
β
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
β
When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
β
β
SeΓ‘n O'Casey (THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback])
β
Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4))
β
No one was my masterβ but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.
Hey, no one said high school was easy.
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
β
There you are. I've been looking for you.
His first words to meβ not a lie at all, not a threat to keep those faeries away.
Thank you for finding her for me.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Sonnet XVII
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:
where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
β
β
Pablo Neruda
β
Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone-
And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a clichΓ©?
β
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Cassandra Clare (City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2))
β
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...
They don't find it," I answered.
And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."
Of course," I answered.
And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
β
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
β
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
β
β
Frances Hodgson Burnett
β
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
β
β
William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
β
You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date.
β
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.
β
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Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1))
β
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
β
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Tupac Shakur (The Rose That Grew from Concrete)
β
And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what heβd done for me. For what I felt for him.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.
β
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
What the hell?" I asked. Is this daring escape being sponsored by Honda?
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Richelle Mead (Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6))
β
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
β
β
William Shakespeare
β
And so Tamlin unwittingly led the High Lady of the Night Court into the heart of his territory.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Hello, Feyre darling,β he purred.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hope, despite all odds.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
β
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
β
And I realizedβI realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
I love you,β he whispered, and kissed my brow. βThorns and all.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
β
We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
β
Youβ¦you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it."
"I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."
And then he took me to the bed.
β
β
Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
β
What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
There are different kinds of darkness,β Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. βThere is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.β I pictured each. βThere is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
I have no regrets in my life, but this. That we did not have time. That I did not have time with you, Nesta. I will find you in the next world - the next life. And we will have that time. I promise.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
You're beautiful in battle," said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar of combat. "Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."
"Funny," I said, shifting my hold on the stake. "That is kind of why I'm here."
"Angels fall, Rose.
β
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Richelle Mead (Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5))
β
I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneβs life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneβs side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
β
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L.M. Montgomery
β
Damn it," I muttered.
"What?" asked Adrian.
"I hate when you're the sane one. That's my job."
"Rose," he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, "I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what's not on the list? Sane.
β
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Richelle Mead (Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5))
β
When I saw you fall..."
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.
β
β
Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
β
A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around."
"Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away.
β
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
β
I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
Be who you are. / Give what you have.
β
β
Rose AuslΓ€nder
β
But then she snapped your neck.β
Tears rolled down his face.
βAnd I felt you die,β he whispered.
Tears were sliding down my own cheeks.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
It's a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have... the wait was worth it.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
β
β
Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Night Triumphant- and the Stars Eternal.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))
β
I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?
β
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1))
β
Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."
"That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.
β
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Richelle Mead (Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5))
β
Checkmate, bitch.
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Richelle Mead (Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5))
β
Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a murderer in the middle of a crowd, or get our teenage friend crowned queen."
"Actually," said Abe, "I did blow up half of Court.
β
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Richelle Mead (Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6))
β
Will rose slowly to his feet. He could not believe he was doing what he was doing, but it was clear that he was, clear as the silver rim around the black of Jemβs eyes. βIf there is a life after this one,β he said, βlet me meet you in it, James Carstairs.β
βThere will be other lives.β Jem held his hand out, and for a moment, they clasped hands, as they had done during their parabatai ritual, reaching across twin rings of fire to interlace their fingers with each other. βThe world is a wheel,β he said. βWhen we rise or fall, we do it together.β
Will tightened his grip on Jemβs hand, which felt thin as twigs in his. βWell, then,β he said, through a tight throat, βsince you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.
β
β
Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3))
β
How I go to the wood
Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single
friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore
unsuitable.
I donβt really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds
or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of
praying, as you no doubt have yours.
Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit
on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds,
until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost
unhearable sound of the roses singing.
If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.
β
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Mary Oliver (Swan: Poems and Prose Poems)
β
She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...
β
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Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry (The Little Prince)
β
I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was.
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
β
She is my mate. And my spy,' I said too quietly. 'And she is the High Lady of the Night Court.'
'What?' Mor whsipered.
I caressed a mental finger down that bond now hidden deep, deep within us, and said, 'If they had removed her other glove, they would have seen a second tatoo on her right arm. The twin to the other. Inked last night, when we crept out, found a priestess, and I swore her in as my High Lady.' (...) 'Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court.' My equal in every way; she would wear my crown, sit on a throne beside mine. Never sidelined, never designated to breeding and parties and child rearing. My queen.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
The Court of Dreams.
The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. The bastard- born warriors, the Illyrian half breed, the monster trapped in a beautiful body, the dreamer born into a court of nightmares...And the huntress with an artist's soul.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and Iβll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and Iβll...I donβt know. Donate Adrianβs money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
β
Auras tell a lot, Rose, and I'm very good at reading them. Much better than you friends probably are. A spirit dream wraps you own aura in gold, which is how I knew. Your personal aura is unique to you, though it fluctuates with your feelings and soul. When people are in love, it shows. Their auras shine. When you were dreaming, yours was bright. The colors were bright...but not what expected from a boyfriend. Of course, not every relationship is the same. People are at different stages. I would've brushed it off, except..."
"Except what?"
"Except, when you're with Dimitri, your aura's like the sun. So is his.
β
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Richelle Mead (Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6))
β
I heard every word between you. I knew you could take care of yourself, and yet β¦ β He went back to his pie, swallowing a bite before continuing. βAnd yet I found myself deciding that if you took his hand, I would find a way to live with it. It would be your choice.β
I sipped from my wine. βAnd if he had grabbed me?β
There was nothing but uncompromising will in his eyes. βThen I would have torn apart the world to get you back.
β
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
β
The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"
His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together."
"Then why did you lie to me?"
We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help.
"Why did you lie?" I murmured again.
Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.
"Because we can't be together."
"Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"
His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."
I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.
"No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.
β
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Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1))
β
Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.
He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.
βLet go of me!β I yelled back.
But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasnβt in total danger of falling again.
See, hereβs the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. Iβd come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.
I looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."
Then I plunged the stake into his chest.
It wasnβt as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.
"Thatβs what I was supposed to say. . .β he gasped out.
Those were his last words.
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Richelle Mead (Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4))
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
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E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
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If I had my life to live over...
Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything.
My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind.
If I had my life to live over again I would have waxed less and listened more.
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy and complaining about the shadow over my feet, I'd have cherished every minute of it and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was to be my only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.
I would have eaten popcorn in the "good" living room and worried less about the dirt when you lit the fireplace.
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would have burnt the pink candle that was sculptured like a rose before it melted while being stored.
I would have sat cross-legged on the lawn with my children and never worried about grass stains.
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life.
I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband which I took for granted.
I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.
I would have gone to bed when I was sick, instead of pretending the Earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for a day.
I would never have bought ANYTHING just because it was practical/wouldn't show soil/ guaranteed to last a lifetime.
When my child kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now, go get washed up for dinner."
There would have been more I love yous ... more I'm sorrys ... more I'm listenings ... but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it.
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Erma Bombeck (Eat Less Cottage Cheese And More Ice Cream Thoughts On Life From Erma Bombeck)
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Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning."
"Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?"
"I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though."
"Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?"
"You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering."
"Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this.
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Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))
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I painted stars and the moon and clouds and just endless, dark sky.β I finished the sixth, and was well on my way sawing through the seventh before I said, βI never knew why. I rarely went outside at nightβusually, I was so tired from hunting that I just wanted to sleep. But I wonder β¦ β I pulled out the seventh and final arrow. βI wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of things, or someone who burned like fireβbut that I would be quiet and enduring and as faceted as the night. That I would have beauty, for those who knew where to look, and if people didnβt bother to look, but to only fear it β¦ Then I didnβt particularly care for them, anyway. I wonder if, even in my despair and hopelessness, I was never truly alone. I wonder if I was looking for this placeβlooking for you all.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2))
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I believe everything happens for a reason. Whether it is decided by the Mother, or the Cauldron, or some sort of tapestry of Fate, I don't know. I don't really care. But I am grateful for it, whatever it is. Grateful that it brought you all into my life. If it hadn't... I might have become as awful as that prick we're going to face today. If I had not met an Illyrian warrior-in-training," he said to Cassian, "I would not have known the true depths of strength, of resilience, of honor and loyalty." Cassian's eyes gleamed bright. Rhys said to Azriel, "If I had not met a shadowsinger, I would not have known that it is the family you make, not the one you are born into, that matters. I would not have known what it is to truly hope, even when the world tells you to despair." Azriel bowed his head in thanks.
Mor was already crying when Rhys spoke to her. "If I had not met my cousin, I would neer have learned that light can be found in even the darkest of hells. That kidness can thrive even amongst cruelty." She wiped away her teas as she nodded.
I waited for Amren to offer a retort. But she was only waiting.
Rhys bowed his head to her. "If I had not met a tiny monster who hoards jewels more fiercely than a firedrake..." A quite laugh from all of us at that. Rhys smiled softly. "My own power would have consumed me long ago."
Rhys squeezed my hand as he looked to me at last. "And if I had not met my mate..." His words failed him as silver lined his eyes.
He said down the bond, I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have... The wait was worth it.
He wiped away the tears sliding down my face. "I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to... so I could find you." He kissed another tear away.
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Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3))