TTT | Things Characters Have Said

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly topic hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week she provides a topic, and you are free to use that topic and/or variations of that topic to make your top ten list. A full list of the weekly themes can be found here.

Because today’s topic involves quotes, which is a subject I can go down the rabbit hole for hours on, I’m limiting the books I pull from to only be the ones that I’ve read in 2025 so far.

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“Excellent! That makes this easy. I don’t think I’ll be letting you go after we finish this quest…I mean, I’m going to take you as my wife when this is all over.” —That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

“You’re gonna sleep next to me every night you allow it because I can’t wake up wondering if you’re safe. I need to know the moment I open my eyes where you are.” —Keep Me Close by R.M. Virtues

“Going through the mirrors requires confronting yourself. You need guts, you know, to look yourself straight in the eyes, to see yourself as you are, to dive into your own reflection. Those who hide their faces, those who lie to themselves, those who see themselves better than they are, they will never be able. So believe me, it doesn’t run the sidewalks!” —A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos

“I love you as a knife loves a throat,” he murmured as the dead overwhelmed her. “I crawled out of hell to fall at your feet.” —Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

“There once was a girl, clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.” —One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

“I always thought it was stupid when guys proposed with ‘will you make me the happiest man in the world’ but fuck, I can’t imagine how anyone could be happier right now. I almost did this so many times today, and so many times before today. As soon as I bought the ring I wanted to give it to you. I wanted to beg you to be my wife.” —Mistake Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

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