If you've been reading my blog and keeping up with my posts, it's common knowledge I read a LOT. In the past year, I've made it a habit to highlight/jot down my favorite quotes from books, no matter how existential or ridiculous. This practice has led me to collect numerous lines from books I adore, and I'm going to share some from the most recent books I've read.
Which meant if I promised Josh I'd look after Ava, I'd fucking look after her, and I'm not talking about a text check-in every two weeks. She was under my protection now.
Ana Huang - Twisted Love
Friendships between women had always been a mystery to me, how they come or how they last. But I suddenly realize this is one I desperately want to keep, and whose existence brings a blinding stab of gratitude to my eyes. Sometimes you just get lucky.
David Sullivan - Lair Rising
Bridgeet von Ascheberg was mine and mine alone. It didn't matter that she wasn't mine to take. I was taking her anyway, and if I could tattoo myself on her skin, bury myself in her heart, and etch myself onto her soul, I would.
Ana Huang - Twisted Games
He expects her to ask him one more time, maybe plead with him, not to go. She doesn't. She looks up at him and says, "Get what's yours."
Stephen King - Billy Summers
Jasper smiles and his eyes soften, creases popping up beside them. He’s always been my gentle giant. Tall, quiet, and good down to the marrow of his bones.
Elsie Silver - Powerless
“How does it feel?” he said, breathing heavily. “To know that I love you and that you have doomed me? That you and only you have the power to disarm and debilitate me. That you, a human, have dismantled every part of me and rebuilt it as a shrine in your honor.”
Jeneane O'Riley - How Does It Feel?
"It can be a lonely thing," he adds at last, his voice low, "to live in the dark."
David Sullivan - Lair
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