Melanie > Books: magic‎ (280)

“She was Arianna the Rivet. She was the

“She was Arianna the Rivet. She was the White Wraith. And she would not scream.”

“But desire and love and forever were all separate mistresses.”

“Her value extended far beyond the marking on her cheek.”

“She bent before no man, woman, king, or queen—and most certainly no Dragon.”

“For Loom, there is nothing she wouldn’t do.”

“I fell in love with you in pieces. Layer by layer, day by day, inch by inch.”

“I fell in love with you in pieces. Layer by layer, day by day, inch by inch.”

“My mother made words. She was a Teller, and her words were magic. She spoke and the words became life. Reality. Truth. My father knew it, and he was afraid. Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.”

“Suddenly yearning had a flavor. It tasted like a king, a beautiful, frightening, infuriating man who flew into my life and began to free my words.”

“I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until I cease to be.”

“I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."
Sean glanced at him. "And?"
"I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.”

“Husbands can fall out of love. Friends can betray you. But when you’re stuck in a hellhole far from home, your family will move heaven and earth to get you back.”

“I have run, my lord. And I would do it again, if the circumstances called for it. Honor can’t keep my daughter alive, but I can.”

“You taught me the meaning of loneliness, because when I don’t see you, I feel alone.”

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do.”

“I can bear ugliness,” he said. “I find the one thing I cannot live with is death.”

“There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls.”

“It is dangerous to travel the northern road with a troubled heart.”

“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their hats and smile and demonstrate good table manners. They never show you their tails.”

“This is the problem with making a thing forbidden. It does nothing but build an ache in the heart.”

“I was not made to please princes.”

“No one thought that I’d been clever or brave, not even my own father. All that mattered was that my magic was weak.”

“Life’s a curse, kid. Love is the cure.”

“The world is a big and dangerous place and there’s more darkness filling it than you’ll ever know. Only one thing fights that –men and women who don’t walk away from their debts. Pick a card now, Kellen, because I won’t ask again.”

“I’m afraid there is a great deal of difference between not doing something and not being responsible for it.”

“Because that card might just change the world.”

“I would have chosen you, if they had let me cho

“I would have chosen you, if they had let me choose.”

“Sarai had lived and breathed nightmares since she was six years old. For four thousand nights she had explored the dreamscapes of Weep, witnessing horrors and creating them. She was the Muse of Nightmares.”

“For fifteen years, the people of Weep had lived with the certainty that the monsters were dead, and Eril-Fane had lived with the burden of it…”

“Skathis: god of beasts, king of horrors, daughter-stealer, city-crusher, monster of monsters, madman.”

“The gods had been dead for fifteen years, after all, but their hate had lingered, and ruled in their stead.”

“Once upon a time, a sister made a vow she didn’t know how to break, and it broke her instead. Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.”

“Darnuir, memory is the heaviest o

“Darnuir, memory is the heaviest of all things”

“Love is made up of many pieces.”

“A knight. A girl. A lord. A golem.”

“Friendship was a dangerous thing for a golem.”

“You humans are fascinated by the death of your own kind. You bicker as an excuse to battle, caring not what damage it wreaks in the process. There will always be wars. And I will always fight them”

“History was a bloody mess, scraped up and strained into the books of the people who made the mess in the first place”

“Humans put far too much trust in their muskets. They wielded them like wizards’ staffs, as if just pointing and praying could solve any problem.”

“Halfwolf’s daughter has returned.”

“Halfwolf’s daughter has returned.”

“Nothing in the universe was safe from the endless war between mom’s plan

“Nothing in the universe was safe from the endless war between mom’s planet and dad’s moon…”

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”

“Life isn't made of choices, it's made of trades. Some are good, some are bad, but they all have a cost.”

“I have never known what to make of you. Not since the day we met. And it terrifies me. You terrify me. And the idea of you walking away again, vanishing from my life, that terrifies me most of all.”

“We don't choose what we are, but we choose what we do.”

“As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something perfect in its own intangible way.”

“But I need you to believe in one more story, Rose.” If Gabe’s voice had been stone before, now it was harder, colder, the mask of ice on a mountain’s wind-scarred face. “I am coming to Castia,” he said. “I am going to save you.”

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better were lost.”

“You’d be surprised how many choices one makes due to the intrinsic nature of self-preservation”

“This moment, is when you step out from the shadow of the past. Today you make your name. Today your legend is born. Come tomorrow, every tale the bards tell will belong to you, because today we save the world!”

“Has no one told you, child, not to wander in unfamiliar woods? Have you not read your fairy tales?”

“I did not want to be remembered. I had only wanted to be loved.”