💬 Quotes
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"You are a witch, Diana. You just don't know how to be one yet."
— A Discovery of Witches (Movie Tie-In): A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)by Deborah Harkness
"We are a species of secrets, of old blood and older grudges, but sometimes, a singular connection can override centuries of enmity."
— A Discovery of Witches (Movie Tie-In): A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)by Deborah Harkness
"The past is never truly gone. It is etched into the very soil we walk upon, waiting for someone with the right eyes to see it."
— A Discovery of Witches (Movie Tie-In): A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)by Deborah Harkness
"To love is to be vulnerable, and to be a creature is to be a target, yet we choose to defy the laws of our nature anyway."
— A Discovery of Witches (Movie Tie-In): A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)by Deborah Harkness
"To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed."
— City of Glassby Cassandra Clare
"I’m not going to tell you it’s going to be alright. I’m going to tell you it’s going to be hell, and then it’s going to be over."
— City of Glassby Cassandra Clare
"As long as there is one of us left, the Lightwoods will not fall."
— City of Glassby Cassandra Clare
"I’m tired of hearing that you’re a monster. I don’t think you’re a monster. I think you’re a man who’s made mistakes, but you’re still a man."
— City of Glassby Cassandra Clare
"There is no pretending. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is a life after that, I’ll love you then."
— City of Glassby Cassandra Clare
"The world is a hard place, Simon. It doesn't care if you're a hero or a coward, it just breaks you anyway."
— City of Glassby Cassandra Clare
"The past is a place you can visit, but never stay. And yet, I have spent my life trying to inhabit two places at once."
— Voyagerby Diana Gabaldon
"Do ye not ken, Sassenach, that I have lived twenty years in the shadow of your ghost?"
— Voyagerby Diana Gabaldon
"You are my heart, Claire. You are the beating of it, the blood in my veins, and the very air I breathe."
— Voyagerby Diana Gabaldon
"It is a terrifying thing, to love someone so much that your own life becomes merely a frame for theirs."
— Voyagerby Diana Gabaldon
"Fate is a strange thing. It doesn't care for your plans, your fears, or the time you believe you have left."
— Voyagerby Diana Gabaldon
"I will find you. If I have to walk through the fires of hell and across the breadth of time, I will find you."
— Voyagerby Diana Gabaldon
"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived."
— The Midnight Libraryby Matt Haig
"It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy."
— The Midnight Libraryby Matt Haig