Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword
14 quotes
"I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I don’t know.And I don’t know how to make it stop."
"I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men."
"No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own."
"While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again."
"Attend to your own fate."
"No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces."
"I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze."
"When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on."
"One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me."
"Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can’t afford to let him go.”The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone.“Because no one ever gave me a choice."
"Lightning has no mercy."
"The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much."
"I am afraid of waking up to emptiness, to a place where my friends and family are gone and I am nothing but a single bolt of lightning in the blackness of a lonely storm. If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter."
"What, Kilorn?' I sigh. 'What,' he echoes, shaking his head. After a long second, something snaps in him. 'I know you don't feel the same way I do. About us.' I'm seized by the urge to smash my head against a rock. Us. It feels stupid to talk about, a foolish waste of time and energy. But more than that, it's embarrassing and uncomfortable. My cheeks flame red. This is not a conversation I ever wanted to have with him."