Heather Walter > Quotes

“You were never a villain to me.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“Remember what I said, Alyce. About monsters.” The words are low, spoken in a tone that wakes something deep in my core. “Take care you don’t become what they think you are.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“Tragedy teaches us things about ourselves and about others.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Sometimes we do not like what we see. But we have to look anyway. We have to know.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“You saved me,” she says. I let out a breathless laugh. “Of course I did. I love you. I don’t know how to do anything else but love you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“History is written by victors.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“There's nothing for me here, I'm tired of being a villain"

"You were never a villain to me".”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“-And now I'm worried,

Aurora goes on,

-that you don't love me anymore. That in the last hundred years, you became obsessed with the idea of me. And that is not the same as love.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“There's nothing for me here. I'm tired of being a villain.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“I understand that you care for her. That she was kind to you before. But sometimes Nimara, people are not who we believe they are.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“We might never fully understand or relate to each other. We'll never be able to go back to the people we used to be. [..] But that doesn't mean it's ruined, does it?”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Maybe Aurora only cared for me because it was easy to do. Because she held all the power. And now that the situation is reversed, she is no longer interested.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Magic is everywhere...Even humans carry a spark of it in their fragile, fickle souls. All you need to do is reach out and find it.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“I don't know how to do anything else but love you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I want to kiss you, Alyce.” I can hardly hear her over the stampede in my ears. I drag my gaze up. Her eyes are an indigo-amethyst and glimmering with something I can’t name. The neckline of her bodice rises and falls in a rhythm that matches my own. “You’re the first and last person I’ve ever wanted.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“I’m sorry for you. For what they did. And for what it made you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“A nightbird sings sweetly from its perch, the sound so incongruous to the tension humming between us.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“I love you, Alyce," she says against my lips.
No matter what happens next, it is enough. It will always be enough.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“What if she did attempt to alter my memories of you. But she couldn’t. Because our love was too strong. There wasn’t anything capable of harming it like that.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“My skin tingles, recalling the smoothness of her palm. The apple-blossom scent of her hair. The soft curve of her neck as it meets her shoulder.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“I wonder how those servants feel about being excluded from the glittering world they help maintain. If the aches in their shoulders and feet and backs throb with resentment as mine do.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“But, Alyce, that understanding doesn’t bring anyone back. It doesn’t change the fact that you’ve done to me and my home what Briar and the Fae did to yours.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I’ll never be a heroine like Leythana. In Briar, I’ll only ever be a villain.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“you’re far too interesting to hate.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“Or am I the wolf, and they’re the sheep?”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“There is no one but myself.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“There's nothing for me here. I'm tired of being a villain."

"Magic is everywhere...even humans carry a spark of it in their fragile, fickle souls. All you need to do is reach out and find it.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“New patrons are always so grateful when I offer suggestions. I think it makes them feel less the villain. Like they didn’t come here specifically to do harm to someone they’ve convinced themselves deserves it.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“I wish I could scream at her. Hold her. And I search her expression for some hint that she's sorry. That she's realized she made a mistake.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“But then Aurora rips herself away from me. It's like the sun being robbed from the sky.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule