thread of book quotes that hurt my feelings

"I would come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together--knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.” —Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” —Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I have never known what to make of you. Not since the day we met. And it terrifies me. You terrify me. And the idea of you walking away again, vanishing from my life, that terrifies me most of all.” —V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” —Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.” —Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (

“When all of this is over, no matter which one of us wins, I will not let you go so easily. Agreed?”
—Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.” —Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“'Are you happy here?' I said at last.

He considered this for a moment. 'Not particularly,' he said. 'But you're not very happy where you are, either.'”
—Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Her gaze was terrified. ‘No, Henry,’ she said, ‘don’t…’ To my surprise, he smiled at her. ‘You think I’d hurt you?’ he said. ‘Come here.’ ... He kissed her between the eyes, then whispered something - what, I’ve always wondered - in her ear.” —Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.” —Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“‘Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!’
They recognized the voice of Prouvaire.
...
Silence fell again.
‘They have killed him,’ exclaimed Combeferre.
Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him: ‘Your friends have just shot you.’”—Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“‘Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.’
‘And this journey we’re on? Is that folly or wisdom?’
‘The greatest wisdom I know.’” —Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”—Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower

“‘They're a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.’” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He had not seen the outside world for twenty-two months.
There was no anger or reproach.
It was Papa who spoke.
“How did it look?"
Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. "There were stars," he said. "They burned my eyes.”
—Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“‘I hope that Hector kills you.’
The breath rasps in his throat. ‘Do you think I do not hope the same?’ he asks.” —Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Ma!”
—Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“...The rest is silence.”
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back... That he really was...” -Author Irrelevant, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix