Evangeline Quotes

“Jacks no longer felt like her enemy, he felt like her home.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Sorry to break your fairytale, Little Fox, but ballads don't end happily, and neither do the two of us.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I am different from what my world demands I be. And I am not worse for it.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“It didn't matter if he stayed forever cursed. All that mattered was that he stayed, that he chose her instead of fear.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“She didn't want someone to hold her while she cried and tell her it would be all right. She wanted fury, she wanted rage, she wanted a villain to tell her she'd done exactly what she needed to do.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Like all admirers of fairytales, she'd always loved the scent of books. She loved the paper dust in the air, the way it swirled in the light like little sprinkles of magic. And most of all, she loved the way that fairytales always made her think of her mother and endless possibilities.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Ballads never end happily, everyone knows that.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“It felt as if he were reaching into her, as if there were invisible fingers digging in to her mind, taking things they shouldn't. Memories.
...
With her body weakened, she fought to lock him out of her mind, to hide her remaining memories, but one by one he plucked them out.

The night in the crypt with Jacks... gone.

Marrying Apollo... gone.

Her friendship with Lala... gone.

Apollo infected with the Archer's curse... gone.

Jumping off the cliff with Jacks-

'No!' she screamed.

... gone.

The wonder of the Hollow... gone.

Jacks bandaging her wounds... gone.

Jacks confessing he was the Archer... gone.

'Please, stop,' she begged.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“You know,' she confessed, 'I've always loved your dimples.'

'I know.' He smirked. 'You were so obvious with your love at first sight.'

'It was not love at first sight.' She huffed. 'I only said I like your dimples at the start.' She dropped her hand from his cheek. 'I didn't even like you. I thought you were terrible.'

'And yet.' He grabbed her hand again and wrapped it around his neck. 'You kept staring.'

Well...' She wrapped her other hand around his neck before sliding her fingers back into his hair. She really loved his hair. 'I might not have liked you, but you were always ridiculously handsome.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“I'm broken. I like to break things. Sometimes I want to break you.'

'Then break me, Jacks.'

His fingers tensed against her neck. 'For once I want to do the right thing. I can't do this. I can't watch you die again.'

The word again scraped against her like a thorn. 'What do you mean, again?'

'You died, Evangeline.' Jacks pulled her closer until she could feel the ragged rise and fall of his chest as he rasped. 'I held you in my arms as it happened.'

'Jacks... I don't know what you're talking about. I never died.'

'Yes, you did. The night you opened the Valory. The first time you did it, I didn't go with you.' He went silent for a moment and then she heard him think, I couldn't say goodbye.

'It was only you and Chaos,' he whispered. 'As soon as his helm was off, he killed you. I tried to stop him- I tried to save you- but-'

Jacks opened and shut his mouth as if he could barely get the words out. 'I couldn't. When I got there, he had already bitten you- and he'd already taken too much blood. You died as soon as you were in my arms. The only thing I could do was use the stones to turn back time. I was warned that it would cost me something. But I thought it would cost me. I didn't imagine it would take from you.'

I'm sorry, he thought.

'You don't need to be sorry, Jacks.'

'It's my fault,' he gritted out.

'No, it's not. I didn't lose my memories because you turned back time. I lost them because Apollo took them from me.'

Jacks looked murderous for a second. Then just as quickly he shook off her words. 'It doesn't matter. What matters is that you died. And if you die again, I cannot bring you back.'

'So you'd rather live without me?'

'I'd rather you live.'

'I am living, Jacks, and I am not going to die anytime soon.' Evangeline closed her eyes and then she kissed him.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Jacks idly stroked her jaw with his fingers. 'I love you,' he said simply. Then his face went abruptly serious. 'I'm never going to let you out of my sight.'

'You say that as if it should be a threat.'

He continued to look at her solemnly.'This isn't just for now, it's for always, Little Fox.'

'I like the sound of always.' She smiled against his fingers and then she reached up to touch his cheek, because now he was smiling, too.

And he loved her.

He loved her.

He loved her.

He loved her.

He loved her so much he'd rewritten history. He'd given up what he had believed was his only chance at love. And now he had finally broken the spell that he never thought he'd escape.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Love…love is understanding. Love is knowing that other person so well, you can anticipate them. Like if someone knows you’re uncomfortable, and they loosen your boot strings. Or if he knows you’re deeply worried about something, and does his best to remedy it and soothe your fears.”
― Kate Noble, Compromised

“I love you, Jacks.'

He closed his eyes as she said the word love.
She hoped a little harder. She wanted to ask him to look at her, but all that mattered was that he didn't let her go.

'I used to wonder if fate was real,' she said gently. 'I used to fear it meant that I had no real choices. 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. I don't it to make this choice. I've made my decision, Jacks. It's you. It will always be you, until the end of time. And I'll fight fate or anyone else who tries to tear us apart- including you. You are my choice. You are my love. You are mine. And you are not going to be the end of me, Jacks.'

'I think I already am.' He opened his eyes as they dripped red tears. 'Let me go, Evangeline.'

'Tell me you won't set fire to your heart, and I will let you go.'

'Don't ask me to do that.'

'Then don't ask me to let you go!”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“She was choosing Jacks.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Ready, love? Or would you like me to carry you?” he said.
Now all Evangeline could hear was the word love.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“A jolt of rage now forced him into her face, their noses almost touching. At once she was the one pulling back.
“Is this yours and Fricker’s little game, Geline? To what purpose? Why not keep to the truth? It’s disgusting enough.” His voice was ragged with fury. “Why make up lies when it’s so unnecessary? I was a gambler, a prodigious drinker. I whored my way through most of London’s lower echelons. I am profoundly fortunate not to be riddled with disease.”
Her mouth crimped with distaste.
“Yes, indeed. Don’t want to mention that, do we? There’s a price to be paid for treating this vessel,” he tapped his chest, “without respect. As to that, we’ve both been fortunate.”
― Cynthia Wicklund, Lord of Always

“Without thinking, I say what I really mean. "I miss her."
He responds in kind. "So do I."
We're talking about two different people, but the sentiment is the same. He looks down at his hands, as if ashamed of the love he feels for someone he cannot have. I know what that agony is like. What an anchor it is. How it will eventually drown us both.”
― Victoria Aveyard, War Storm

“Then very soft from LaLa: “I hope you brought enough apples.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Impossibility doesn’t make the wanting go away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Sometimes a hug and a cookie might now mean more than a grand gesture at some indeterminate point in the future.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Didn’t I have more strength last night? Was it my rage?”
― Erik Schubach, Trolls

“The very foundation of my bondage shredded and cracks appeared in the stone as I was stuck, dust and debris.”
― Erik Schubach, Trolls

“I jumped to my feet in excruciating pain. I didn’t know if it was mine or the bridge.”
― Erik Schubach, Trolls

“It's not a real kiss if there isn't any tongue.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“You look like shit," Lysandra said to Aelin. Then she remembe Evangeline, who stared at her wide-eyed, and winced. "Sorry."

Evangeline refolded her napkin in her lap, every inch the dainty land of her ove queen. "You said I'm not to use such language-and yet you do."

"I can curse," Lysandra said as Aelin suppressed a smile, "because I'm older, and I know when it's most effective. And right now our friend looks like absolute shit.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass Series: Queen of Shadows, Crown of Midnight, Throne of Glass, The Assassin's Blade, Heir of Fire, Empire of Storms, Kingdom of Ash, Tower of Dawn

“In case you forget what the Prince of Hearts has done and you’re tempted to trust him again.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“First she needed to be sure she wasn’t being watched or followed or stalked by that deceitful, apple-eating scoundrel whose name she wouldn’t even think.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“So thoughtful,” the taller maid said dreamily.
“I like him already,” the shorter maid agreed.
I want to punch him, Evangeline thought.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“He’d found another apple as she’d gotten dressed - it was unbitten and blue, and he tossed it in time with his merry song.
“You’re staring.”
“I was just wondering why you always carry apples.” Jacks chuckled under his breath. “Trust me Little Fox, you’re better off not knowing.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“And truth -“ Jacks smirked. “The truth is never what you want it to be, Little Fox.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After