A few passages I stumbled upon that I just can't get out of my head. You know a woman, when you know what she is reading.
Heartbreak
“You must willingly choose to walk away from the alternate life your hopes and dreams create, even if it breaks your heart and your mind.”
Hestia - The Things Gods Break by Abigail Owen
Hidden
“We all bear scars… Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
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Celaena - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Longing
“All I want is to feel something. Pain. Shame. Longing. Mercy feeds my hunger to feel alive. He doesn’t just kiss my lips; he kisses my starved soul and my lonely heart.”
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Nemesis - Vengeance by Ruby Braun
Priority
A flicker of pain crossed through his eyes, and Bjorn squeezed them shut. But as he reopened them, he said, “No oath is worth your life. No amount of vengeance is worth your happiness. I’ll let the past burn to ash, Freya, because you are my present. My future. My destiny.” He liftet his other hand and to cup my face. “I love you.”
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Bjorn - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Unconditional
“My love for her is boundless – and much stronger than my pride. Her happiness matters to me, more than being able to say that I am the cause of it.”
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Koen - Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Torment
“Loving me is torment,” he whispered, pressing a kiss to my skin after every word. “Because I’m so broken. Being loved by me is torment because I destroy so much for the sake of my love.”
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Mercury - Vengeance by Ruby Braun
Choice
“Love means having a choice.”
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Luella - Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova
Secure
“A warmth different from desire filled me, because I knew that I was a flawed woman. That there were parts of me that were not good. Yet Bjorn loved me as I was, wanted me to be who I was rather than to shape me into something else, the way so many other people had tried.”
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Freya - A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen
To be good
“Why do you think I, of all people, could do the right thing? No one else believes I’m capable of doing any good.”
“Because I don’t believe in dividing living beings into good and evil, Loki. We are what we do, and we can always choose a different path. Every single day, we’re just one decision away from becoming someone entirely different.”
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Freya & Loki - Loki - Her Twisted Heart by Franka Neubauer
The Meaning of Love
“Why do you believe that love, of all things, means pain?”
“I’ve seen what happens when two people fall in love. One becomes a part of the other, losing their entire sense of self, their worth, and their strength to the person who gains the upper hand.”
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“None of that is love,” he whispered.
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Davien & Katria - A Dance with the Fae Prince by Elise Kova
Oath
“He would die for her, and he would kill for her. More importantly, he will live for her.”
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Koen - Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Decisions
“And for the first time, I find myself wondering whether doing the right thing truly matters more than being happy.”
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Loki - Loki - Her Twisted Heart by Franka Neubauer
Forgivness
“No soul has ever healed by dwelling on the past.”
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Thanatos - A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
Whole
“My anger is a part of me!” I shouted. “You can’t love only half of me, Bjorn, because that means you don’t love me at all!”
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Freya - A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen
Valhalla
“Where you go, I go, Born-in-Fire. Even if it’s to the gates of Valhalla.”
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Bjorn - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Soulmates
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
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Catherine Earnshaw - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Everything
“I’ll have all of you or none of you.”
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Bjorn - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Privilege
“I would take anything she chose to give me – the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body – I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me.”
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Lowe - Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Core
“He tasted of mead, and with every inhale I scented pine and snow and wind over the fjord.”
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Freya - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Fire
“I will be at your back until I cross the threshold to Valhalla, Born-in-Fire, whether you want me there or not.”
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Bjorn - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Needle
“Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.”
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Arya Stark - A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Cycle
“He is the hunting song calling through the night. The broken boy beneath the lash. It ends where it begins. It begins with him.”
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Montparnasse - The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant
Sacrifice
“I needed to be numb. To do what needed to be be done, to say the things that needed to be said, and to be what these people wanted me to be, because those I love most depended on my compliance. And I refused to fail them, no matter how much it cost me.”
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Freya - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Dreamer
“Wishes were the dreams of fools.”
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Lara - The Bridge Kingdom 2 by Danielle L. Jensen
Charm
“It is hard to keep one’s wits when faced with a woman as beautiful as the sight of shore to a man who has been lost at sea.”
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Bjorn - A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
Fixation
“Awake or asleep, all I see is your face. All I hear is your voice. All I feel is you in my arms. All I want is you.”
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Aren - The Bridge Kingdom2 by Danielle L. Jensen
Questions
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
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Frankensteins monster - Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Gratitude
“But now… now I am grateful for every break. Every gnarled scar on my flesh and heart is like a map that led me to here, with you. I wouldn’t change any second of pain because forsaking it would also mean forsaking the pleasure of your company, your smiles, your body.” He speaks every word so plainly. So earnestly. He’s so suddenly laid his soul bare before me and I’ve no idea what to do with it.
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Evander and Faelyn - A Dawn with the Wolf King by Elise Kova
Unconditional
“I love you,” he said, his lips grazing against hers. “And I will love you, no matter what the future brings. No matter, how hard I need to fight. I will always love you.”
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Aren - The Bridge Kingdom1 by Danielle L. Jensen
Heartbreak
“I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
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Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Choice
“Maybe you’re not meant for me the way I’m meant for you, but I’m going to choose you anyway, over and over and over again.”
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Lowe - Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Charm
“When you smile it takes up half your face.’ ‘Simon!’ she exclaimed. ‘That sounds horrible.’ ‘It’s enchanting.’ ‘Distorted.’ ‘Desirable.”
Daphne and Simon - The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
Home
“You are the foundation that helps me stand. You are my walls and my roof. My shelter. You are my home.” His lashes swept up, the amber of his eyes churning wildly. “As you are mine, Poppy.”
Penellaphe Balfour - The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Vulnerability
“What’s better, I thought, to be safe and suffer alone, or to risk pain and actually live?”
Vincent - Die for Me by Amy Plum
Clarity
“I learned a long time ago that tears don’t save lives. All they do is blur your vision.”
Caledon Holt - The Queen's Secret by Melissa de la Cruz
Adoration
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
Patroclus - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Fervor
“If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.”
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Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Eternity
“I do not wish to leave you. I will spend forever with you, whether forever is years, or one last night. If forever is free, or chained.”
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Evander - A Dawn with the Wolf King by Elise Kova
Presence
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live”.
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Albus Dumbledore - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Destiny
“I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and worst of you… You’re the one of my heart, Yen.”
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Geralt - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Empowerment
“You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
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Nehemia - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Enduring
“I want you for lifetimes,” he said, brushing his knuckles along my cheek. “But I shall be content with now.”
Adrian - King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair
Devotion
“Darling, I would burn this world for you.”
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Hades - A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair
Aligned
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
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Catherine - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Grace
“You are worthy of all the goodness in the world; you are worthy of second chances at happiness, of paths forward you never expected.” I speak these words as much for myself as for him. ” And I will prove I to you, Evander, however long it takes.”
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Faelyn - A Dawn with the Wolf King by Elise Kova
Obsession
“I hate you… I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
Jude - The Wicked King by Holly Black
Endgame
“I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end.”
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Feyre - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Cataclysm
“I’m shattered ice. Our collision is steam and destruction, destined to dissipate, but I’ll gladly burn beneath him until the world comes crumbling down.”
Raeve - When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
Radiance
“She is warmth and light and air and love.”
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Xaden - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Enigma
“Temptation, salvation, heaven, hell—you are everything, Tem. You are my undoing. You are beyond comprehension. There are no sufficient words to describe you, either in my language or yours.”
Caspen - Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube
Transcendent
“Seems to me that love can calm storms, end wars, make fools of smart people, and bridge the gap between life and death.”
Lyra - The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen
Fated
“I’ve wanted you since the moment I laid eyes on you, Goldfinch. I was just waiting for you to catch up.”
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