Believe Me Quotes
"I am being held hostage by custom. Formality."
"I know I shouldn’t be ashamed to feel deeply. To be moved."
"You’re not supposed to see any of this until the wedding night."
"The rest of us had to buy clothes off the rack. Premade. Ill-fitting."
"Every passing second costs me more of my sanity."
"Revolutions often fail—even after they’ve won."
"She is always striving to build a better future."
"I am, therefore, entirely capable of making mistakes, which means you cannot depend on me to be a foolproof defense against unknown entities, which means your plan is faulty."
"I want nothing more than to escape this noise with Ella."
"I wish Kenji were not here to witness this moment, and I wish I cared less about the contents of this box than I actually do, which is impossible."
"It’s desperately important to me that Ella love it."
"We're drowning," she says quietly. "We need help."
"If Ella were a house, she would be a grand home, one with many rooms and doors, all of which were easily unlocked, flung open."
"There are few, indeed, who’ve ever prioritized my personal happiness."
"I would happily watch the world go up in flames if anything happened to her."
"You mean to tell me that you like the idea of taking a bath?"
"The worst uncertainties are the ones I cannot kill or control."
"I spent the night outrunning an indecipherable natural disaster."
"I had no choice but to keep moving for fear of being decimated by the impending calamity, searching all the while for Ella, from whom I had been separated."
"In another world, I might live in a house with my parents."
"A home is not always a place. Sometimes, it’s a person."
"I would sleep on the cold floor of our hospital room for the rest of my life if it meant staying by Ella’s side."
"All I want, more than anything else, is to bridge the distance between us."
"The word surprise is seldom associated with something negative."
"I never thought I’d come close to touching such a dream; I never thought I’d be able to trust, or love, or find peace."
"My heart still pounding in my chest, I step aside."
"I am nothing. If I manage to be anything, it is only because of you."
"We can choose happiness for ourselves and for each other, and if we do it often enough, it’ll become our new normal, displacing the past."
"Happiness will stop feeling strange if we see it every day."
"I love you more every single day, and I didn't even think that was possible."
"You have no idea what it means to me, love. It's the greatest gift anyone has ever given me."
"You never complain about sleeping on the floor of our hospital room, which you’ve done every single night for the last fourteen nights."
"You don’t know how to problem solve without resorting to murder! How do you not see this as an issue?"
"I haven’t been able to predict a single thing that was going to happen to me today."
"We couldn’t let you get married without a proper suit."
"I have no idea what to say, and I’m just thinking of how to respond."
"I want to live a life like this, to be able to withstand unexpected moments of kindness."
"I am so happy it’s physically uncomfortable; I am so full of hope it seems to depress my chest."
"Equality, as it turned out, had meant Jinn were to lower themselves to the weakness of humans."
"No one wants a servant who can read. You ruin your own prospects with that tongue."
"I’d have rather worked a needle and thread by the light of the sun."
"She knew herself to be in possession of great fortune."
"When a home was not found, it was forged; indeed it could be fashioned even from nothing."
"With great reluctance she blew out the candle, pulled her legs against her chest, and fell over like a poorly weighted insect."
"Even in silhouette she couldn’t see him, not properly, but then—it was not his face, but his voice, that had made the devil notorious."
"Silence was too welcoming of unwanted thoughts; I listened instead to the sounds of passing cars, to the wind sharpening against their metal bodies."
"My thoughts had begun to race, my mind working too hard to answer a simple question."