Amanda Foody > Quotes

“She was a pistol wrapped up in silk. She was a blade disguised as a girl.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“Sometimes we're not who we want to be because we're supposed to be something else.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“People do not play this game to win, my dear. They play this game not to lose.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“She was the girl who’d come afraid to the city that could smell your fear. She’d faced the witch. She’d poisoned the wolf. She’d strolled into the land of death with her head held high and left it a lord. She was an impossible player in a fixed game, the only person not playing to win.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“You want to know something funny?' he asked. "In a choice between staying here or going home, I'd still choose here. With you.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Footsteps thudded down the stairs, and the flickering figure of Hendry Lowe appeared outside Alistair’s prison bars.

“You’re too late,” Alistair told him. “I’ve long descended into madness.”

“It’s been fourteen hours.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“I think deep down, some people don't want their stories yo have happy endings.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Are you a pearl, or are you a bullet?”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“The Grieves had raised Gavin to die. The Lowes had raised Alistair to kill.
Both of them deserved a better story.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Survival could make villains of any of us.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“The nightmares had not taught him to fear the dark. The nightmares had taught him to become it.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Heroes are just villains with worse survival instincts and moral superiority complexes.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“And he would tell her that, even after losing everything he'd ever wanted, he still desperately wanted her.”
― Amanda Foody, Ace of Shades

“In this story, the princess slayed the dragon.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“And no tale was ever heard of him again.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Because the hero of one story is the villain of someone else's. It's all just a matter of who wins.”
― Amanda Foody, King of Fools

“It didn't matter whether she decked herself in knives or pearls. The world would always demand that a girl apologize for herself, but she would apologize for nothing.”
― Amanda Foody, King of Fools

“Gavin had glared at Alastair Lowe and his brother from the back of the pub and wondered what it would be like to have someone in his life like that. Someone who knew him. Someone who saw him. Someone who would celebrate when, not if, he came home.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Killing is easy,” Alistair murmured. “It’s the afterward that’s harder.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Once upon a time, we were burned to the ground. But we did not die. Instead we kept burning, kept moving, kept growing. The smoke surrounds us, even if we no longer burn.”
― Amanda Foody, Daughter of the Burning City

“Her touch was cold, but his was colder”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“If I'm going to die either way, I'd rather be a casualty in a good story than a terrible one. And that's what I want for you, too. A good story.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Of course what happens to you matters. Because it matters to you. Because you feel something, right now. That's enough, isn't it? Doesn't that make it mean something?”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“He squeezed the iron arm of the bench in his fist, hard enough to make it bend. She smacked him. “Stop destroying property with your toxic masculinity.”
― Amanda Foody, King of Fools

“My family is proof that even depressing stories need a punchline”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“I think, deep down, some people don't want their stories to have happy endings.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“I think it takes more strength to be vulnerable than it does to appear invincible.”
― Amanda Foody, King of Fools

“But that was what this alliance led up to. Not a kiss stolen in the dark, or a priceless gift given without being asked.
A duel.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Gavin had once agonized over whether the real Alistair Lowe was more boy or monster, but now he understood that Alistair was both. And even though neither canceled the other out, he didn’t think that made Alistair beyond redemption.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“It was never your responsibility to save him.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise