Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high

-A Gathering of Shadows

It’s a kiss for everything their words can’t convey, for the history behind them and the story ahead- a story that might be only a few words long or might only be the beginning

- Obsidio

I will prove to everyone that the world won’t turn to ash or spin out of control or swallowed alive by a black hole. But someone has to man up first to get this ball rolling.

- More happy than not

We look into each other’s eyes and when she leans in to kiss me, I let her because this is the last kiss we share whether she knows it or not

- More Happy than not

Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You can’t really know which ones you’ll survive if you don’t stay in the battlefield, bad times shooting at you like bullets. But if you are lucky, you’ll have plenty of good times to shield you

- More Happy than not

Nothing worth doing is easy. Especially not in the beginning. But I’m not about to give up

- Since you’ve been gone

You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk

- They both die at the end

Maybe it’s better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs

- They both die at the end

And blood and loss and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together

- Gemina

Maybe sometimes things didn’t just go wrong and the stop; maybe sometimes they just kept going wronger and wronger until everything was totally fucked up

-It

No love ever goes unpunished

- Caraval

She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with the darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out ✨

-Caraval

Every touch created colors she had never seen. Colors as soft as velvet and as sharp as sparks that turned into stars

-Caraval

Tella loved danger the same way candlewicks loved to burn. It never seemed to scare her that some of the things she lusted might consume her like a flame

-Caraval

She remembered thinking falling for him would be like falling in love with darkness, but now she imagined he was more like a starry night: the constellations were always there, constant, magnificent guides against the ever-present black

-Caraval

She just wanted to be with him. The boy who’d saved her from drowning in more ways than one

- Caraval

The key to a charade like this is to forget it’s an act. Invite the lie to play until you become so comfortable with it that it feels like the truth.

- Legendary