Edema Rue

"I forgive you. And for the next time too, and the time after that." Janner, Wingfeather 4

"Every day, I thought about how much I hated him. And I loved him. I still do. It hurts to think he's gone, even though he always told me he would leave." Vin, The Final Empire

"Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is raw and pure and perfect." Kvothe, The Name of the Wind.

"How do you know there wasn't something that he touched kindly? Someone who loved him, who was blessed by his love? 'Destroyed everything he touched'--that's a lie that can't truthfully said of any human being who ever lived." --Speaker for the Dead

“Take what you want. I’ll hate you for it. But I’ll love you forever. I can’t help but love you. Ruin me, ruin us, and I'll let you.” The Burning God

"It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain." --The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." Shakespeare, sonnet 147

To see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.

Female

"I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff, They were all struck for thee! naught that I am, Not for their own demerits, but for mine."

I'M NOT SHORT
I CAN SPELL
I'M NOT A NERD
ELAN LOSES THE GAME
AND I LIKE BOOKS
SO THERE