Linsey Miller > Quotes

“I would remember them forever–their names, my reasons, the way their bodies slumped in death and their eyes stared through me. If I stopped, if I let their deaths weigh me down and keep me from being Opal, it was all for nothing. There was no going back. I was what I was, and they were a part of me now.”
― Linsey Miller, Mask of Shadows

“You are not the people who love you or the people you've lost. They're just parts of you. You are so much more than you've been led to believe.”
― Linsey Miller, Belle Révolte

“Some people aren't even worth your time. Don't bother arguing with the ones who don't see you as a person.”
― Linsey Miller, Belle Révolte

“I love being touched. I don’t like the expectations that come with it.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“Well.’ Maud handed me a bandage. 'That was the most foolish thing you’ve ever done.’
'Don’t joke. We both know it isn’t.”
― Linsey Miller, Ruin of Stars

“What do you do when your flesh is rotten, when the skin is so dead even your blood turns against you?”

I took her hand. “Cut it out.”

“Exactly,” she said. “And if you would have me as your surgeon, I would have you as my knife.”
― Linsey Miller, Ruin of Stars

“The world doesn’t demand we break ourselves to survive; the people refusing to help us do.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“We are more than what the world has done to us.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“It’s time for a new adventure.”
― Linsey Miller, Prince of Song & Sea

“I licked my lips, cheeks warm - she was staring at me , wide-eyed and lost, like a travelers finally finding their way home, the look burning within me.”
― Linsey Miller, Mask of Shadows

“Think about how the only reason you're still breathing is because that guard woke up, how the only thing keeping me from climbing up there and putting a knife in your neck is how little I care about your face, and dream of me. Dream of me coming for you.”
― Linsey Miller, Mask of Shadows

“Sometimes, the worst times, things happen and there's no reason to it at all, and all our little plans and artistries leave us with nothing but a pyre full of ash and head full of memories blowing away in the wind”
― Linsey Miller, Belle Révolte

“People were so unimaginative. They always expected sacrifices to be physical. “Memories,” I whispered to them, “work just as well.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“My mother always said I had the emotional depth of a puddle during a drought”
― Linsey Miller, Belle Révolte

“I know who I am and what I’ve done, and I regret nothing.”
― Linsey Miller, Ruin of Stars

“Every part of him loved and every part of him returned to the earth except for the parts that seeped into me. I was a graveyard so no one else needed to be.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“The moon blinked.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“Gods in my veins, but he calls his a monster.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“embrace.”
― Linsey Miller, Prince of Song & Sea

“My father used to say it was never personal, which seemed odd since his politics only affected people who weren’t like him. Of course it wasn’t personal. He didn’t consider them people.”
― Linsey Miller, Belle Révolte

“The court and council could’ve prevented this all with their money and resources, but instead they had opted to save themselves and their power every single time. If they had put their minds to it, they could’ve saved everyone. They could’ve been heroes, but they wouldn’t have been rich. They would rather kill everyone than give up even a pinch of power.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“Rules are only suggestions when you have enough money to pay the price,”
― Linsey Miller, Belle Révolte

“As long as we were struggling against each new loss of some part of ourselves, we weren’t fighting against Cynlira. As long as we weren’t working together, we couldn’t fight.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“I wasn't. I wasn't unnatural or lacking or cold. I wasn't missing out. I had tried to separate myself from everyone else, to make myself unappealing so as not to disappoint, and I was wrong.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“It was so dismissive, as if love was some step up from friendship and the steps vanished as soon as you surpassed them.”
― Linsey Miller, Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

“It wasn’t enough to not be bad; a person had to be actively good. They had to try to do good. Apathy was as bad as villainy, and it would destroy this world.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“It's easy to be envious of someone when you think you know their life, but you can't ever, can you?”
― Linsey Miller, Prince of Thorns & Nightmares

“Such a considerate monster.”
― Linsey Miller, What We Devour

“Stop assuming I mean physical intimacy when I say intimacy. I mean closeness. Knowing your partner.”
― Linsey Miller, Prince of Song & Sea