Zitate und Sprüche aus Flammengeküsst (The Empyrean)

Love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you've entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.

Coming in last is better than coming in dead.

Stop bringing logic into an emotional argument.

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."

"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.

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.

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'd forgotten what this felt like."
"Being hugged?" My voice was sandpaper-rough.
"Being held together."

Yes, I was capable of immense grief, but I was also capable of infinite love. And I would love my life again. Maybe not today, but one day. Because I wasn't done yet.

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

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.

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.

Violet Sorrengail: "Thank you for being my friend."
Liam Mairi: "It's been. My honor."

Killing you wouldn't be any trouble, Violence. It's leaving you alive that seems to cause the majority of my trouble.

Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable but you're really a violent little thing, aren't you?

Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs - on the probabilities.

Lust and logic never seem to go hand in hand.

"I'd have to be a masochist to sleep with you, and I can assure I'm not."
Fantasising about it doesn't count.

I can't lose you, Violet. I just... can't.