540 Quotes by Kiersten White

Being chosen is easy. Making choices will break your heart.

Some things you can’t fight,” she says, crouching low and fixing her sad green eyes on me. “Some things you have to just survive.

Christmas Eve is my favorite... I think the anticipation is more fun than anything else. I kind of lost that. The idea that something – food, traditions, an arbitrary date on the calendar – can be special because we decide it should be. We make it special. Not just for ourselves, but for others.

Love should feel urgent. A rush of emotion, an inescapable need. A spark and passion that consumed everything, that burned away caution and fear and left only desire.

A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.

Sometimes we have to hide from what others see in order to be what we know we are.

There was nothing in the world as magical and terrifying as a girl on the cusp of womanhood.

This was not the behavior Lada expected from Vlad Dracul. From her father. From a dragon. A dragon did not crawl on its belly in front of its enemies, begging for their help. A dragon did not vow to rid the world of infidels, and then invite them into its home. A dragon did not flee its land in the middle of the night like a criminal. A dragon burned everything around herself until it was purified in ash.

I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing.