Tehlor Kay Mejia > Quotes

“In a battle between two men trying to control her, she'd chosen herself.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Maybe this was trust ... Giving someone the power to ruin you, betting your life on the belief that they wouldn't.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“The bad stuff will be there ... If we want to fight it, we have to find joy where we can. We have to find beauty. We have to take our moments to be happy. Because the joy is what keeps us strong and reminds us we have something to fight for.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“You have a big heart, a strong mind, and you will find a way to make a life you love. No matter how different it is from the one you left.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“On the outside, she was frozen, but inside her, whole cities were being razed to the ground. Explosions were shaking the walls of her stomach. People were screaming in her throat.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“It's a viper's nest, child. I'll not deny it. See that you have the strongest venom.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Think about all the crimes your precious government condones, not just the ones they punish. Then you can talk to me about who the real criminals are. If we're not all free, none of us are free. You remember that.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“You were a criminal the moment you were born, and surviving every day has multiplied those crimes a hundred times.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“A hundred shades of a girl”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Freedom has a price. People who want easy and pretty stay in their cages.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia , We Set the Dark on Fire

“If we're not all free, none of us are free.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Dani's father always told her that secrets made her strong. Her maestras had told her restraint made her strong. But Dani knew now that to crack open what you thought you knew, to allow it to scar with truth, that was what made you truly strong.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“The only thing heavier than a parent’s presence is their absence.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia

“Pao didn’t know much about love (except that what most people called love was actually just an overproduction of the oxytocin hormone in the brain),”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears

“But I want to live in a world where love doesn't mean fear. Where we can survive without forgetting who we are”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Mateo thought she was powerless. That he could reduce her to a trembling victim with some harsh words and the scent of his breath on her face. But she wasn't powerless. And if she played her cards right, she would never have to be again.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Guess I underestimated you,” Naomi said after a long moment. “Sorry I ran off.” “Sorry I tied you to a cot.” “Yeah, that was kind of rude.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears

“He was hideous, she thought. Dangerous. A monster. But he trusted her, and right now that was enough to make up the rest. Isn't that what everyone wants? Pao asked herself. To be loved even though they're kind of a monster?”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears

“I just need to get out of here. I'm doing what I have to do to survive. I'm not signing up to set things on fire.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“right now I’m all too aware of how little one person can accomplish when faced with all the monsters of the world.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Wednesday: A Novelisation of Season One

“the sight of this many seething bags of hormones dulls my wit just long enough for her to strike.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Wednesday: A Novelisation of Season One

“She’s wearing an over-the-top pink fleece coat today. It makes her eyes seem even bluer than usual.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Wednesday: A Novelisation of Season One

“There is divine will, and then there is its interpretation by those who seek to serve. They cannot be mistaken for each other.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Lucha of the Night Forest

“Kissing was a kingdom all its own, with a million secret places to be explored”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Even still, the oratory looked hopeful inside-hundreds of tiny candle flames, standing against the night. In this corner of the world, if nowhere else, light was winning.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Bigotry wore a lot of different faces—she knew that well, even though she hadn’t started seventh grade yet.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears

“Whatever came next, they would do it together. All of them.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares

“Certainly, my relationship with Enid has shifted something, but right now it feels as though she’s only opened up a part of me that feels sadness rather than relief when I’m left alone.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Wednesday: A Novelisation of Season One

“It was with that pledge in her heart, and a love behind her, waiting, that Lucha Moya turned her sights toward home.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Lucha of the Night Forest

“The chase became a dance, Pao drawing the woman to corners of the cave where Ondina and the orb would be out of her line of sight. And it worked. Until it didn’t.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears