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“How do you find me so easily?��

“Because you are the brightest star,�� he said, a murmur over my lips. “And the brightest star needs the darkest night.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Rest now. When you wake, the world will still be cruel and your heart will still be bleeding, but you are breathing, Astraea. And every breath is a reminder that you live for something.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“When falls Night, the world will drown in Starlight,�� she recited.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Think of me, and I will answer,�� he spoke to my mind. Then he pulled away, lingering against my mouth to say aloud, “Long for me, and I am right here with you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“She would not be weak.
She would not cower.
She would not lose.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, An Heir Comes to Rise

“Everyone has skeletons in the closet, and those who claimed otherwise were usually the ones with the most to hide.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, An Heir Comes to Rise

“I would meet you in the darkness. Every time you called,”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I have waited more than three hundred years for you to come back,”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Your loss is deep, but you will heal. It will linger, but you will keep living.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“If there’s one thing you’re not allowed to give up on, it’s love, Astraea. That’s a demand.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Well done, Nikalias.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, An Heir Comes to Rise

“All I know is that this is eternal. As sure as the stars; as anchoring as gravity. You are a need, not a want. An obsession, not a simple desire.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Sword from the Embers

“He cannot break you. You bow to no one, submit to no one. You are fighter. You always have been. Remember you golden heart within, because I will. Those who matter will always remember you for who you are, not what you've done.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Queen Comes to Power

“Knowledge is mightier than the sword sometimes, but it's also nice to escape the possible and travel to another world for a while.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, An Heir Comes to Rise

“I’ve always been right here. Waiting for you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“was the single most exquisite thing I’ve seen and heard in centuries.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“You are not what I expected.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I’m going to take it all away. Then kill every hand responsible for harming you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“But I’ve come to realize tomorrow isn’t my promise to give. What I can promise…is me. Until the last tomorrow comes. I want you to know every broken piece of me belongs to you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“Who did this to you?�� His voice turned surprisingly dark, and she thought she detected anger in it.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Queen Comes to Power

“I don’t spare your thoughts because I’ve gained some moral code; it’s because I don’t need them. One look in your eyes and you don’t even realize you tell me everything. Like right now, you have no idea the punishment you’re inflicting with that look, knowing should this veil not exist, one touch would make the stars collide, and neither of us would care if we collapsed the world with it.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“I’m going to right everything he wronged. Give you everything he denied you. Worship every inch of the goddess you are, starting right now. Do you believe that?”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“You deserve to be worshipped—every damn inch of you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Trust built on the foundation of a lie is always doomed to fall.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, An Heir Comes to Rise

“I vow to stand by your side. I vow to protect you with my sword and my life. And I vow to bind my fate to yours, if you will have me. I’ve lived enough years in this world to know should you leave it, so too shall my desire to stay here without you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Throne From the Ashes

“I have waited so long for you,�� he murmured, pressing his lips to my jaw, then my neck, and I moaned softly, clutching his hair in my fingers. “I would have waited an eternity for this.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Knowing you are naked right now is the most riling madness I’ve felt in a very long time.�� I trembled at the low, silvery gravel of his voice, easing over to the water and dipping my toes in first. I couldn’t bite back the soft sighs as more hot water caressed my skin. “And those god-damned sounds you make, Starlight.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“My dear Faythe, there is no person who can say they understand you, for what you ave been through is your own. No matter their opinion of how resilient you are, how you embrace this new fate with such awe strikes me. You do not have to be grateful to have a life that was forced upon you simply because you live. You do not have to part with what you were to embrace what you are becoming.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, A Flame of the Phoenix

“You’re the most resilient person I know, Astraea. Don’t discredit yourself, or his manipulation still holds you.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

“Choking filled the room as he slipped into the minds of every guard, cutting off their ability to breathe.”
― C.C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying