Kristen Ciccarelli > Quotes

“Some people are determined to live out their own personal tragedies.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“The hunted had fallen for the hunter.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“If this was weakness, he wanted to be weak. If this was sin, let him be damned to hell.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“You are not the things that happened to you, Gideon.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“Then may Death send his worst. Cold to freeze the love in my heart. Fire to burn my memories to ash. Wind to force me through the gates. Time to wear my loyalty away. I'll wait for you at Death's gate.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“Live in the darkness too long, and eventually you won't recognize the light. You'll become like the monsters you hate.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“You are far worse than a thorn in my side,” he said, his dark eyes gleaming at her. “You are a knife in my heart.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“I may not know Rune Winters, but I know the Crimson Moth. And she is no caged thing.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“The problem with love is the more you try to destroy it, the stronger it becomes. It might look like weakness on the surface. But in truth, it's tougher than steel. Love can't be controlled. Love can't obey unjust laws. Love will always oppose tyrants. Love is the real enemy of the regime, and that's why you despite it. It's why Cressida tries to crush it. Because you both know, deep down, it has the power to topple you.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“But which character was she—the heroine, the villain, or the fool? The fool.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things.
Things like forbidden, ancient stories.
It didn’t matter that the old stories killed her mother. It didn’t matter that they’d killed many before her. The girl let the old stories in. She let them in eat away at her heart and turn her wicked.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“You could die," she whispered. "Everything dies," he whispered back. "I'm afraid of so much more than dying.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“Your laugh is like a fuse,” he said. “It lights you up.” Rune’s heart thudded. No one had ever told her that before.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Crimson Moth

“To play by the rules when everyone else disregards them—that is foolishness.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“She was like a deer making eyes at the wolf that wanted to eat her for lunch.
Stupid deer.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“You want the truth?” Her own hurt bubbled up, like steam from a volcano ready to erupt. “This is the truth: I would have married you in a heartbeat, had you asked me. I would have married you knowing you would hand me over to my killers—or kill me yourself—the moment you found out what I was. That’s how pathetic I am, Gideon! That’s how desperately I wanted to be yours!”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she was alone and unloved.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“One of us thinks ourself too good for the other. But it’s not me.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“That is my hope for you, dear reader. It’s the same hope I had for Rune at the beginning of her story. (And for myself, in a way.) I hope you stop caring so much about the opinions of others and allow yourself to live. I hope you find the courage to be unapologetically yourself and start making your life—and maybe even the world—what you and the ones you love need it to be.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“Every time Gideon looked at the young heiress, she reminded him of the sea: steal-your-breath beautiful on the surface, with the promise of untold depths beneath.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“It might look like weakness on the surface. But in truth, it’s tougher than steel. Love can’t be controlled. Love can’t obey unjust laws. Love will always oppose tyrants.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“No one needs to ask for a woman’s opinion. It’s expected that she gives it freely.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Last Namsara

“Even in death, my love, you are a wonder.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“Sometimes our paths must diverge from those we love,” Antonio said as they rode, side by side, scanning the surrounding mountains. “But if love is the highest power, our paths will converge again—if not in this world, then the next.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“In forgiving him, a strange thing happened: Rune found forgiveness for herself, too. For what she’d done to Nan. The thing she’d needed all this time was right there inside her.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, The Crimson Moth

“It's been a honor, Captain," she whispered against his lips.
Gideon let out a soft cry, but he didn't fail her.
Pulling the trigger, he sent a bullet straight into her heart.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Rebel Witch

“I hate you, Gideon Sharpe. I hate you so much, it hurts. And if you don’t open this door, i”ll go on hating you forever...”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“The point is to let me give you this one small thing, because I couldn’t give you the rest.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“You are not the things that happened to you.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“I’m in love with him. Instead of getting Gideon Sharpe out of her system tonight, Rune had gone and gotten herself addicted. The hunted had fallen for the hunter.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter