Lightbringer Quotes

“There is too much hate in the world already. Why direct more of it at yourself?”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“It would be easier, he knew, if he had never loved her. And yet, given the choice, he would do it again, even knowing what was to come. He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“You love me."
"I wish I didn't," she said bitterly.
"I fascinate you, darling."
"As would your death.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Love is the one constant force that no violence or despair can diminish. We must hold onto the light of this truth, even when the world grows dark. Especially then.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I have loved you. I have trusted you. Part of me will always belong to you. But not all of me. You saw that I was afraid and worked to keep me that way. You saw that I was lonely and reminded me of it every time I thought of leaving you.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Bring me composers who write their helpless mortality into every melody, singers with storms of grief in their lungs. Bring me people who wish they could stop listening to the music boiling in their blood but cannot, so they tear it from their bodies the only way they know how - through air and strings and drum and pen.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Someone who hates me as he does deserves no piece of my heart.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I know every corner of you savage heart, your capacity for cruelty, your caprice, and yet I love you still. I would have you right here if you would let me. Fear you? I exalt you. Remember what I told you?" He laughed, tightening his grip on her hair. "You could burn me a thousand times, and I would still want you for my own.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“You will show the people who would have caged you forever how mistaken they were to think they ever could.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Past the grief, there is light still, even if only in memory. Tell me about that light.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“For too long, we have been tools of those who love us, and those who hate us. Those who think they know our minds, our hearts, our strength. The power that feeds us. [...] Rise with me now, and help me show them how strong we truly are. [...] We are the light. And our fire will wake up the world.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“It would not have been fear that took me from you, if I had decided to leave. It would have been my own self, my own will. And you denied me that choice.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Even monsters were not always without mercy.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I know what it feels like to know you live because others have died, how the grief sits in you like a stone you cannot dislodge. I have to believe that if they could see us now, they would be proud of our fight and would not regret their part in it.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I know you grieve what you have lost. I grieve as well. I think we will grieve for the rest of our lives. With every step we take away from our home, grief braids itself more tightly into the fabric of our deepest selves. And just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“We are all monsters, full of perversities and violence. At least you and I accept this and have the power and intelligence to do something.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“I know you grieve. I know your mind has turned against you, and I understand why. But many of us are grieving, and there's more sorrow on the horizon, so I need you-we need you-to pick up the pieces of yourself and fight.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“You've surpassed us, that's true, and some people are afraid and will continue to be. Some will hate you. That's true too. But most will love you, even those who sometimes fear you.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“...the thin straight line of her nose, the painful sharpness of her jaw, how she held herself with such stillness. Was it because she was afraid of breaking? Or because she had been broken so many times that the idea no longer frightened her?”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“The tender weight of his palms sent a fierce bite of joy up her arms. Her instincts were at war. To leave him aching, to lean into his warmth. Two paths and no answers.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“He smelled of salt and smoke, murmured her name until she wore the syllables on her skin.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“My belief is my hope, and hope is the light that shines even on the darkest night.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“You are the Lightbringer, and our world is growing dark.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“A monster who kissed her one moment and crafted abominations the next. And she herself, the most monstrous of them all.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“If you live, then I live. If you die, then I am no longer.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Forcing Rielle to choose between good or bad, light or blood, is folly, he said. It will be our undoing.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Come, Simon!" Corien howled, jubilant. "How long can you stand to watch her like this? Hours? Days? Weeks? I am ageless. I am infinite. I can burn her until the world falls apart around us!”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“And over it stood Simon in imperial black, his scarred face streaked with blood and grime. His expression was furious. A dark cloak lined with crimson fell to his knees, and across his torso cut a red sash like a bloody smile.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“Just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer