💬 Quotes

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"He didn't just want my submission; he wanted the parts of me I had spent a lifetime hiding from the world."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"Fear is a parasite, Elena. It feeds on your hesitation until there is nothing left of you but the shadow of what you used to be."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"In this house, silence wasn't peace; it was a heavy, suffocating blanket that reminded me exactly who held the power."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"You think you’re a monster, but monsters don’t feel the ache of wanting something they know they’ve already destroyed."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"The lines between captor and savior are drawn in blood, and I was no longer sure which side of the knife I stood on."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"I was a butterfly trapped in a jar, and he was the one who had caught me, his fingers closing tight around my wings until they bruised."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"Submission isn't always about losing your will. Sometimes, it’s about choosing your battles, realizing that a cage can be a cocoon if you wait long enough to transform."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"You think you’ve bought my soul along with my body, but you’ve only managed to hold the shell. You have no idea what’s growing inside it."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"He didn’t want a prisoner; he wanted a mirror. He wanted me to look at him and see the man he pretended to be, not the monster he actually was."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"Control is an illusion, Elena. In this world, you are either the one holding the leash or the one being dragged by it."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"The darkness didn't just surround us; it had become the very air we breathed, heavy and suffocating, yet somehow, I had learned how to inhale it."
— Captiveby Julia Sykes
"Translation is always an act of betrayal."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"They didn't just want our silver; they wanted our tongues."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"Power is not just the ability to do something; it is the ability to decide what counts as reality."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"You think because you speak the language, you understand the world. But language is not a reflection of the world; it is a tool used to construct it."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"If you want to change the system, you have to break it from the inside, but you must be careful not to become the very thing you seek to destroy."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"An empire is a machine that runs on the blood of those it deems expendable, fueled by the silence of those who benefit from the gears."
— Babelby Rebecca F. Kuang
"P.S. I love you."
— P.S. I love youby Cecelia Ahern
"You can't lose someone who has never been yours, and you can't hold onto someone who is already gone."
— P.S. I love youby Cecelia Ahern
"Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you... and remember, shoot for the moon."
— P.S. I love youby Cecelia Ahern