Romance Quote by Erin Morgenstern — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

“The power shall always belong to those who give their lives to the city.”

“Its been six weeks," he murmured. "Six weeks I've wanted you. I know how you move, and how the sunlight makes a shadow on the curve of your cheek, and the shape of your ear." He chucked harshly then turned his head on the pillow to look at her. "I'm dying," he said. He dropped his fist against his chest. "Right here, you're killing me.”

“No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.”

“I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.”

“Because the stars have taken everything from me. My dream, my free will, my status, my family”, his voice thickened on that last word and pain sliced into my heart for him and all he'd lost. “And when there was almost nothing left to take, they gave me you.”

“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”