Breath Mints / Battle Scars Quotes

“Diary,
You don't know what it's like. To wake up and see her there.
But I do.
Draco”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“You think, out of a room of hundreds, I'd choose you?"
"I'd choose you."
"Because, let me tell you, I fucking wou-" Draco's words stop as though he's been magically silenced.
"You what?" He asks quietly. Barely a murmur.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“That is for the person who told me she'd pick me out of a room of hundreds. If she ever decides to mean it.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“I like how alone you are,”she breathes, “because it means I don’t have to share you with anyone. I owe you to no one. You’re as alone as I am and you —you’re my secret…even though you’re not mine. Even though I sometimes wonder if you could be mine. Sometimes wish you were.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“And you, Hermione - you have the whole world at your feet.
This life is yours for the taking. Find what you want and take it for the both of us.
I’ll be rooting for you.
Draco”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“What’s the difference, really, between Malfoy and heroin? What are they but two shipwrecks, entangled by the same tide? How fucking poetic. He and I are paint splattered all over the place and we’re staining everything and maybe we absolutely don’t go together, but to me — to me we’re a fucking Jackson Pollock.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“Swallowing her fear - swallowing her pride - she meets his eyes again the way one meets an enemy on the battlefield. "I love you.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“He and I are paint splattered all over the place and we’re staining everything and maybe we absolutely don’t go together, but to me — to me we’re a fucking Jackson Pollock.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars

“And for a moment, the honesty of it overwhelms her. The old saying echoes in her head. Malfoy never tried to catch his flies with honey. He never promised sweetness. He threw vinegar the whole time. She wonders if she’s preferred vinegar to honey all along.”
― Onyx_and_Elm, Breath Mints / Battle Scars