Emily A. Duncan > Quotes

“We're all monsters, Nadya, some of us just hide it better than others.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Dazzle the monsters, Nadya. You've already charmed the worst of the lot; the rest should be easy.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Oh, is this how it goes? I'm murdered and everyone has orders to kill me on sight? Just to rub it in?”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Truth is never kind.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“You could be exactly what these countries need to stop their fighting. Or you could rip them apart at the seams.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“When he stepped past her, a smile flickered at the edges of his lips. There was darkness at the corners, something evil just underneath the surface, sinister. He turned and grinned at her, monstrous but beatific, holding out his hand, darkness gone. Maybe she’d just imagined it. She took his hand.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“He was a nightmare but he was gentle.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Is she powerful enough to take the stars out of the sky?”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Monsters are real, and I am their king.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Are we so different, Nadya?” He lifted his hand, fingers tipped with long claws, and pressed his thumb against her lips. “We both long for freedom. For power. For a choice. We both want to see our kingdoms survive.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Don’t be a martyr. We have no use for yet another saint.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Where he was heat, she was ice and winter and cosmic fury.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“She would bring this country to its knees.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“This was going to kill her. This, right here, this beautiful boy and his monstrous power and his lies and the knowledge that nothing mattered, they would always betray each other in the end.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods

“A boy who is mortal and maybe a little divine.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“This monstrous king could be undone by the touch of her lips.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“...[A] witch is just a girl who has realized her power is her own.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“How does a human girl become something divine and feared by the gods that gave her the power she wields?”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“But this is who I am. It’s a blessing, not a curse.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Mourn the loss later, survive now.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“What happens when a monster tries to become a god?”
― Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods

“Once there was a boy who was shattered into pieces and put back together in the shape of a monster. Once there was a boy who clutched at the remnants of what he had left as it fell through his fingers. Once there was a boy who destroyed what little there was remaining because it wasn't enough.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“The world they wish is broken bones and blood—always blood.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods

“Two thrones, two kings, two boys to plunge the world into darkness for the sake of saving it”
― Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods

“Can you love someone and ask them to shatter themselves for you?”
― Emily A. Duncan, Ruthless Gods

“Some scars aren't so visible.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Here in this profaned place, Nadya found herself reaching for a monster.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Let them fear her”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Intentions were not always kind nor just.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“Symbols fell from her lips like glowing glimmers of smoke and every star in the sky winked out.”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints