A Curse For True Love Quotes
"Evangeline Fox always believed she’d find herself inside of a fairytale one day."
"Hoping and imagining and believing in magic had always been like breathing to Evangeline."
"In fairytales, there was always a price for magic. Nothing came without a cost; peasants who turned into princesses always had to pay."
"Every stone beneath her feet held a secret of a bygone era."
"She felt as if she were simply wearing a costume, that she’d stepped into a role that she could simply step out of."
"Her heart still hurt, as if it had been broken and only jagged bits remained."
"He would carry her through more than just freezing waters. He would pull her through fire if he had to, haul her from the clutches of war, from falling cities and breaking worlds."
"The world had altered overnight, and it wasn’t merely because Evangeline felt butterflies every time she thought of kissing Apollo."
"Every fairytale in the Magnificent North was cursed."
"Evangeline had heard countless stories about girls falling through time and through cracks in the earth, and it always sounded magical."
"The silver fog swirled around the grounds like magic, adding misty sparkles to all the trees and shrubs."
"If this was happily ever after, she was no longer sure she wanted it."
"Did you know there’s an old Northern story that says you don’t need magical spells to enact a curse?"
"We rebuild to banish the ghosts of our pasts that dare to keep haunting us. For we are Northerners! We are not afraid of the myths and the legends! We are the myths and the legends!"
"Others might argue with this. But Evangeline would say to them that she was merely hopeful of what could be, whereas others were fearful as to what could go wrong."
"Golden and glowering and possibly the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen."
"Blood streamed down her chest as she tightened her robe with hands that wouldn’t stop shaking."
"It was raindrop soft, but the look in his eyes held the force of a storm."
"He would pull her through fire if he had to, haul her from the clutches of war, from falling cities and breaking worlds."
"Nothing could hurt more than this."
"Art is supposed to be good therapy for the soul."
"Standing this close to Archer made her feel as if she couldn’t catch her breath, as if her blood was made of champagne bubbles all rushing to her head."
"Just tell me one thing that’s true."
"His eyes burned as they met hers; it was a fire like anger. But she could see hurt as well. It came in threads of silver that moved through the blue of his eyes like cracks."
"But the problem with hope was also what made it so wonderful. Once a bit of hope had come to life, it was difficult to kill."
"He was like poisoned fairy fruit—one bite ruined a person for anything else."
"Love was the world’s most powerful magic."
"Her memories didn’t feel so much like her past as they felt like their story."
"The first time Apollo met Aurora Valor, he had thought she was an angel."
"Every girl I’ve kissed has died, except for one. And you are not that girl."
"Shouldn’t love have won already?"
"But maybe the reason for the warning about falling in love with Fates wasn’t because loving a Fate could never work, but because it was so much harder. Nearly impossible."
"Believing something doesn’t make it true."
"I know I seem naive. But I’m not doing this because I believe I’ll win. I’m actually a little afraid I’m going to lose. I’d rather go up in flames with him than watch while he burns."
"What is the point of having friends if they’re not there to support your bad decisions?"
"But the problem with wanting something you can’t have, or shouldn’t have, is that the second it seems possible, all reason flees."
I remember all of it," she said. "I remember everything from the moment we met in your church to the night at the Valory Arch.
"Trees weren’t supposed to have heartbeats."
"Everyone has two different hearts. There is the heart that beats and keeps you alive. Then there is the other heart, the one that breaks instead of beats, the one that loves so that there is a point to all this living."
"Loving Jacks felt doomed from the start. But Evangeline had learned that love was more than a feeling. And it didn’t have to be the safe choice, because love was also more powerful than fear. It was the ultimate form of hope. It was stronger than curses."
"Jacks had been the moon and she’d been the tide, controlled by his impossible force."
"Heart or no heart, she still wanted Jacks to be hers."
"I used to wonder if fate was real. Then I secretly hoped fate was real and that you and I were fated, that by some miraculous chance I was your true love. But now I don’t care if fate is real—because I don’t need it to decide for me."
"It felt like stars colliding and worlds ending."
"This was happily ever after."
"Real stories never finish."
"Is your pride really so wounded that you would kill me over a kiss?"
"Evangeline knew that Jacks had told her heroes didn’t get happy endings. But that didn’t mean they were supposed to give them to the villains."
"But if Wolfric Valor wanted the kingdom, he could have it. Just as long as she could have Jacks."
"Happily ever afters were notoriously boring. They did not make for very good stories."
"She felt without. She felt as if she were simply wearing a costume, that she’d stepped into a role that she could simply step out of, only there wasn’t anywhere else to step to."
"In the light of a fresh day, everything felt less like a blurred fever dream and more like a picture-perfect stained-glass window."
"A world of bright, as if the sky and the ground had switched places and now the Earth was covered in shimmering stars."
"I want you, Evangeline Fox. I want to write ballads for you on the walls of Wolf Hall and carve your name on my heart."
"He loved her so much he’d rewritten history. He’d given up what he had believed was his only chance at love."