Five Broken Blades Quotes

“Loving somebody is needing two hearts to live instead of just the one.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“You only become a sharpened blade by having the soft parts of you stripped away.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I should stop expecting hidden depth out of a puddle.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“A little off, a little too slow or fast, a little too early or late, and everything would be different. Life is timing, and timing is luck.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve been emptied, like there’s nothing more of the girl I used to be.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Null,” Mikail whispers. My eyes widen, and my stomach turns. It means zero. Zero witnesses, zero survivors.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I have a headache, and she’s sitting across from me.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“There are mistakes that can’t be unmade, but you try your best to make things right.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“We comfortably exist in the space of unsaid regret.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“How’d you get my name?” His voice has the rumbling of thunder, and I find myself following like lightning. But the innkeeper sneezes and I’m reminded that this really isn’t the time to be horny.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Loving somebody is needing two hearts to live instead of just one.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“The second he touches me, a feeling rushes through me. Our hands fit together like a lock and key, but it’s more than that. He feels like home.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Just then, Aeri woke up, chipper with a bright smile. And it shocked me because who wakes up happy? The girl is just unnatural.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“I’m in a swank room and there’s a pretty girl across from me, but she won’t stop talking.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“Either is punishable by lingchi—a public death by a hundred cuts.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“You remembered after forgetting, and that’s just as valuable as knowing the first time,”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades

“He thinks I'm the villain of our story. That I'll betray him simply because I have before. Because I lie as easily as I breathe. And that all seems like terribly unfair character assassination to me.
Accurate as it may be.”
― Mai Corland, Five Broken Blades