Quotes from Sherry Thomas

Life had its way of beating humbleness into a man.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

I've always loved you," he said, his eyes a blue that was almost violet. "You know this." She swallowed a lump in her throat. "I only wonder whether I deserve such devotion." "Sometimes people fall in love with those who do not return the same strength of feelings. It is as it is," he said with a quiet intensity. "What I give, I give freely. You owe me nothing, not love, not friendship, not even obligation.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face. - Leo

You can live forever for me.

Love will make you weak and indecisive, remember?" she murmured. What a fool he had been. For a journey like theirs, love was the only thing that would make him strong enough. "Don't ever listen to an idiot like me," he answered.

Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.

Some lovers were fortunate enough to grow old together. They'd grown old apart. She did not think him any less handsome. She only wished that she'd been there when the first line on his face had appeared, so that she could have stroked and kissed and cherished it.

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

I live for you, and you alone.

Fortune favors the brave." Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, "And the brave make their own fortune!

As long as I live and breathe, I will be with you.

Love without friendship is like a kite, aloft only when the winds are favorable. Friendship is what gives love its wings.

We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.

Tenderness, that most alien and disconcerting of emotions, swelled and billowed in her. She picked up a cherry and stared down at the soft, bright-red fruit. "I love you." The last time she'd declared her love he'd thrown it right back in her face. She waited uncertainly for his response. She didn't even have to wait a second. He leaned over and kissed her on the mouth. "I love you more." - Gigi and Camden

This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

He glanced at her. "You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart." The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting.

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him. Overnight, she'd become a fool.

He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?" "Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.