“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
“Because I’m black?” I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn’t white. “No”—he”
“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
“This is crazy. Only psychopaths do this. This is some serial killer–type stuff.”
“I need to have all of you, Ava. Say I can have all of you.”
…
“Take me.” I say quietly against his lips.’
“Oh, I will.”
“Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened.”
“My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”
“It wasn’t all that long ago that he’d stood where I did, that my mom’s face was one of many in his
world. And yet, despite all the impediments and all the time that had passed, they were still deeply in
love.
It was obvious in everything, from their shared room to the way they fretted over each other to the
way they seemed to be incapable of not flirting with each other even after being married so long.”
“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.”
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