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Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2) QUOTES

Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

2 " We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

3 " In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

4 " Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

5 " Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that'd been done to it, and she wanted to claim it, to own it, to prove that to herself. She knew it wasn't magic, but the idea of writing her own identity felt like the closest she could get to reclaiming her life. Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words. She wanted to find an image that represented those things she was feeling, to etch it on her skin as tangible proof of her decision to change. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

6 " If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

7 " What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me? "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

8 " We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

9 " He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

10 " Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

11 " And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

12 " -"You won't like me if I'm cruel."
-"I don't like you now."
-"We don't lie."
-"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

13 " -"Leslie? What are you doing?"
-"Choosing. I'm mine. Not anyone else's."
-"I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

14 " Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

15 " He might be out of her skin, but she'd left him as something other than what he'd been before- not moral, but not strong enough to deserve the title of Dark King. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

16 " In the end mortals always expired before faeries.
They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and memory were but a
blink from death. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

17 " I need to check in with Seth before I--" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on her throat--"give in to my unconscionable desire to put my hands on you properly. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

18 " You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

19 " He held her gaze as he lowered his head toward her. He didn't kiss her though--just leaned kissably close and asked, "Will you let me take you in my arms... for a dance, Leslie? "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)

20 " I will keep you safe- from them and from me. "

― Melissa Marr , Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)