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“No. I’m here with you. You know my darkness.” I reach for his free hand and squeeze. “I can handle yours.” “But my darkness—” “Speaks to mine,” I interrupt. “The moon can’t glow without her night, Sol.” #phantom #greerrivers

“Darling, if I’m the dark, then you’re the stars.” #hooked #emilymcintire

“You want to watch the world burn?” “Let me guess, you’ll set it on fire?” I ask. He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me and settling into my bones. “No, darling. I’ll hand you the match, and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.” #hooked #emilymcintire

“You’re my pretty little muse, Scarlett. I worship your voice. Your body, mind, and soul are no different.” "Even the darkness in my mind?” I ask, not sure why it matters if my phantom accepts my madness. "Especially your darkness.” #phantom #greerrivers

Maybe that’s why she calls to me the way she does—the pitch-black parts of my soul aching for her light. #hooked #emilymcintire

“You are my moonlight,” I whisper against her shoulder in a kiss. “And you are my midnight,” she murmurs back. #phantom #greerrivers

No, most people don’t guess, do they? That sometimes the people who laugh the loudest and reach for life the hardest are the ones closest to darkness. - #Saint #SierraSimone

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose. #igniteme #taherehmafi

No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future. #igniteme #taherehmafi

But there’s something about the darkness that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. #igniteme #taherehmafi

“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes.” #unravelme #taherehmafi

I’m checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I’m finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn’t exist a single response to such an outlandish request. - Unravel Me, Tahereh Mafi

Everything stops and for a moment I can’t remember what it’s like to live in a world that isn’t falling apart. - Unravel Me, Tahereh Mafi - Also, me

I talked her into believing that she needed me. Then, I showed her-proved to her-that she did. - The Spanish Love Deception, Elena Armas

"I’ll give you the world,” he said against my mouth. “The moon. The fucking stars. Anything you ask, it’s yours. I’m yours." - The Spanish Love Deception, Elena Armas

Trying to reason with love is pointless. It doesn’t care about your reasons, right or wrong. Love has no regard for circumstance, nor does it give a fuck what state it puts you in. It’s a relentless and unforgiving emotion that will never let you lie to yourself. -The Finish Line

No matter how we came to be, we were and still are. You stole my heart, and you let me love you with it, and you made damn sure I knew where its home was. - The Finish Line, Kate Stewart

She’s my mirror, my judge, and has revealed herself as my sole purpose. She brought direction back to my deadening soul when I lost my way, and she continues to guide me back, a star too bright to ignore, no matter how far I stray. - The Finish Line, Kate Stewart

I’ll forever be a foolish romantic, chasing the high, though no high will ever compete with the one I felt with him. It ends here. I don’t know how to be both powerful and in love, and that’s my downfall. - Exodus, Kate Stewart

The only love I’ve ever known or craved is the kind that keeps me sick, sick with longing, sick with lust, sick with need, sick with grief. The distorted kind that leaves scars and jaded hearts. - Flock, Kate Stewart