Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it’s the person who is doing the soul-searching that defines what they may see.

— Nadège Richards

Life is short, Israeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

— Nadège Richards

My parents say you’re no good, Elijah.” I exhaled and killed the cigarette in the grass. Laughing, Eli’s eyes went to my lips and his hands touched my bare midriff. “Really? And what do you say?” He had brought his lips so close to mine that it became hard to think about my next words when all I wanted to do was crush my mouth to his. I wanted him to completely consume me. “I think you’re broken,” I finally got out, and Eli arched a brow. “But I think I’m broken too. I just don’t know it yet.

— Nadège Richards

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.

— Nadège Richards

Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.

— Nadège Richards

Perhaps soul mates don’t exist, I thought. Maybe they were only a way to get over a loss that couldn’t be forgotten, a way to mend a heart that was unredeemable—an aberrant remedy that dissolved long before the healing began. A way to love a numberless amount of times when it was finite all along. Perhaps love was this illusory wonder and we were reaching for the impossible. Maybe it wasn’t likely to know someone so completely and maybe, just maybe… there was no beauty in having a soul.

— Nadège Richards

Say it."" Don't do this to me..." I whispered painfully. "We can't do this again."" You're a horrible liar," Eli growled as he pressed his fingers into my thighs. He watched me, his gaze all-consuming, and said, "Your eyes are as dark as a castle moat by midnight, mi Cairo. Lower your drawbridge and let me cross; let me in."" Eli, I-""Forget him. For the next hour and a half, you're going to do everything that makes you wonder in this world. And then I'm going to love you again.

— Nadège Richards

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.

— Nadège Richards

Some of us are born to live and to fight, Echo. Others are born to fight for their right to live. When those two collide, there’s hell to pay.

— Nadège Richards

Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.

— Nadège Richards