Nina > Nina's Quotes

“Happy endings can be caught, but they are difficult to hold on to. They are dreams that want to escape the night. They are treasure with wings. They are wild, feral, reckless things that need to be constantly chased, or they will certainly run away.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“It hurts, Jacks.”
“I know, love. I’m going to take you somewhere safe.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Dark was for stars and dreams and the magic that took place in between days.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Nothing has been safe since the moment I laid eyes on you. And yet I don't want to look away.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. 'There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Tick Tock Little Fox”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I know you're still angry with me, but you've always known what I am. I never tried to pretend otherwise, you just let yourself believe I was something I'm not.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Fates were always fighting the urge to be that which they were made to be.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“The secret to staying in love is having someone who will catch you when you start to fall out of it' and I promise to always catch you.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“She meant to say, For tonight, I'm yours, but all that came out was "I'm yours”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“A prince without a curse will be forgotten by history…”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I succumbed to the lure of the oracle, he thought.
And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Melisandre’s red lips curled into a smile. “I have seen you in my fires, Jon Snow.” “Is that a threat, my lady? Do you mean to burn me too?” “You mistake my meaning.” She gave him a searching look. “I fear that I make you uneasy, Lord Snow.” Jon did not deny it. “The Wall is no place for a woman.” “You are wrong. I have dreamed of your Wall, Jon Snow. Great was the lore that raised it, and great the spells locked beneath its ice. We walk beneath one of the hinges of the world.” Melisandre gazed up at it, her breath a warm moist cloud in the air. “This is my place as it is yours, and soon enough you may have grave need of me. Do not refuse my friendship, Jon. I have seen you in the storm, hard-pressed, with enemies on every side. You have so many enemies. Shall I tell you their names?” “I know their names.” “Do not be so certain.” The ruby at Melisandre’s throat gleamed red. “It is not the foes who curse you to your face that you must fear, but those who smile when you are looking and sharpen their knives when you turn your back. You would do well to keep your wolf close beside you. Ice, I see, and daggers in the dark. Blood frozen red and hard, and naked steel. It was very cold.” “It is always cold on the Wall.” “You think so?” “I know so, my lady.” “Then you know nothing, Jon Snow,” she whispered.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

“I have an ugliness it's impossible to love.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

“Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

“Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.”
― Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

“I acknowledge these thoughts and I am letting them go.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames