Shana Abe QUOTES

2 " We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly. "

― Shana Abe , The Dream Thief (Drakon #2)

4 " Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed? "

― Shana Abe , The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark, #1)

6 " I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you. "

― Shana Abe , The Treasure Keeper (Drakon, #4)

8 " Right,” I said once more, because it sounded firm, and because Armand’s brittle desolation was beginning to eat at me. None of this, after all, was his fault. “We get him downstairs. We sneak him out of the castle, back to your motorcar. You take Jesse to a doctor and take your father home. Lock him in a room, pour some wine down his throat. Laudanum. Whatever you have to do to keep him out while I get rid of the guns. None of this ever happened.” I looked at Jesse. “Are there hidden tunnels to use? So no one sees? "

― Shana Abe , The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark, #1)

10 " There is a fierce joy to letting loose, to cutting yourself free from all the countless mundane threads of restraint that fix like you in your place, that tighten so gradually day by day that you do not even realize how bowed you are until you’re quit of them. "

― Shana Abe , The Fiercest Joy (The Sweetest Dark, #3)

12 " It’s funny how your life can come apart in an instant. How you can feel safe and satisfied one moment, and the next you’re dangling over an abyss, no warning, no quarter. You’re absolutely about to fall. "

― Shana Abe , The Fiercest Joy (The Sweetest Dark, #3)

14 " There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped naked in its light. You can’t hide from it. You can’t close your eyes and wish it away. It’s truth; easy truth or unbearable truth, either way, it won’t be vanquished. And there you are for all to see, stuck in its merciless glare. "

― Shana Abe , The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark, #1)

16 " Whats it like, to be in love? The servants speak of it when they think I can't hear. I only wonder."

Lia turned around and tossed the cushion back to the chaise lounge. She found she didn't have an answer to Mari's question. She couldn't say what she'd heard her sisters always say, It's thrilling, or It's bliss, or He makes me so happy. She raised her head and swallowed the strangeness in her throat, walking to the fireplace, to the pianoforte, pressing a finger against the honey-buffed wood.

"It is," she said at last, "the most terrible feeling in the entire world."
And she meant it.

"Yes," the girl agreed, examining her face. "I think it must be. "

― Shana Abe , The Dream Thief (Drakon #2)

18 " Is that why you came?'
'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.'
'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days. "

― Shana Abe , The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark, #1)