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Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.

We can either breathe through the pain or we can let it shape us.

I would rather lose this entire war than live without you, and if that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I'll do it. You gave me your heart, and I'm keeping it.

"You're my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you."
"Gravity," he whispers, a slow, beautiful smile curving his mouth. "The one force we can never escape."

If you're reading this, well, you know the "last-letter" drill. You made it. I didn't. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there were any chance you could have saved me, you would have.

"I love you," I whisper. "You could throw my entire world into upheaval, and I would still love you. You could keep secrets, run a revolution, frustrate the shit out of me, probably ruin me, and I would still love you. I can't make it stop. I don't want to. You're my gravity. Nothing in my world works without you."

There is nothing more sacred than the Archives. Even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten.

And strength of courage is more important than physical strength.

I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite.

Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.

There's no end to my love for you. It's woven into the very fabric of my soul so even when our bodies die, we'll still never stop loving.

If I never told you, then let me say it now. Your words saved me. You reached into the darkness and pulled me out with your kindness and your strength. You did the impossible and touched my soul.

The hardest battles – the most meaningful ones – they're fought against ourselves. Against our own fears, our own weaknesses, our own shattered expectations of what we thought this life would be.

I'm sorry if you expect me to do the noble thing. I warned you. I'm not sweet or soft or kind, and you fell anyway. This is what you get, Violet— me. The good, the bad, the unforgivable. All of it. I am yours." His arm wraps around the small of my back, holding me steady and close. "You want to know something true? Something real? I love you. I'm in love with you. I have been since the night the snow fell in your hair and you kissed me for the first time. I'm grateful my life is tied to yours because it means I won't have to face a day without you in it. My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I'll meet Malek at your side. It's a damned good thing that you love me, too, because you're stuck with me in this life and every other that could possibly follow.

There is no me without you.

You can't make me fall for you and then die.

I'm so wildly in love with you that I can't imagine what my life would even look like without you in it. And I probably shouldn't have said that, but if we're doing this, then we're starting from a place of complete honesty.

One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.

The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.

My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I'll meet Malek at your side.

We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

You'll find that being General Sorrengail's daughter means that others will do just about anything to keep you alive, even pleased, not because they love your mother but because they either fear her or want her favor.

If determination had a physical form it would be Dain Aetos.

I don't like anything more than I like you. You're my favorite.

It's no secret that I love books. I love stories about people I don't know, and places I haven't been to. I've lived a thousand lives between a thousand pages.

For all the romance books I've read and all the happy endings I've enjoyed, I can't imagine my own. I'd like to hope I'll have one, but hope can be dangerous.

It's not p*rn. It's a romance book that happens to have a little bit of sex in it.

"Oh, my sweet summer child." He laughs. "You're a straight white man. That's your red flag."

And I really do need to be convinced to behave.

It's normal to understand something logically but emotionally feel something different.

I hope we last. I need us to last. Going from frenemies to lovers in three months wasn't something I ever thought would happen. But despite my best efforts, I'm so freaking in love with this man.

"Do I need to get on my knees and beg you, Anastasia? Is that what you want?" She shakes her head and laughs. "The only time I ever want to see a grown man on his knees in front of me, Nate, is when his face is between my legs. So no, I don't want you to beg me."

You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I've never been more in love with you.

I pinch the book from between her fingers, examining the turquoise cover, then flicking to a random page in the middle of the book. "You're reading p*rn in public? You're disgraceful!"

What is it about tall, muscular men who are good with their hands that makes me weak?

We're still individuals, but we're individuals together, and I never knew relationships could be like this.