Stacia Stark > Quotes

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion. Those people will believe you even when the truth is dancing naked in front of them. Because to believe otherwise would mean their entire world has always been a lie. And that realization is too difficult for most people to take.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“Don’t survive for anyone else. Survive for yourself. Survive because the thought of not surviving, the thought of letting those who would hurt you win, is so repulsive, you can’t stand it. Survive because you deserve to survive.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“Until you face up to the reality of your life, you will forever be a victim to it.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“One of my worst realizations was how many people will—without a second thought—trade other people’s freedoms for their own minor comforts.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“I missed you more than I miss the sun.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“You don’t know that.” “You get to believe anything you want. Why would you choose to believe you will fail?”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“That’s the thing about rights—you don’t realize you’ve taken them for granted until one day, you wake up, and they're no longer a right. They're a privilege reserved for other people.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“Loving an addict is like being an addict yourself. Only you’re addicted to hope. You constantly tell yourself that this time will be different. Things will get better. And always”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“The price of love was loss. We all paid it eventually.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“I’ve gone my whole life feeling like I’m holding my breath. Like my lungs are burning. Like I’m desperately fighting for each gasp of air. But when you’re around, I can…breathe. And I’m furious at you, because when that ends…when we’re forced apart, I don’t know how I’ll take a full breath without you.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“You get to believe anything you want. Why would you choose to believe you will fail?”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“It will take more than a few arrows to kill me.” “What would it take?” I asked, curious despite myself. “Given your wicked temper, I think I’ll keep that information to myself, wildcat.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“How do you control a population? You keep the people poor and uneducated. Tell them the same lie for centuries, and tie that lie to religion.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“Do you truly believe people are just one thing? Entirely good or entirely evil? Is it really that simple for you?”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“He stared down at me like he would burn the world for me. What he didn’t seem to understand was that I would do the same for him.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Women have been each other's sword and shield since the beginning. When men turn against us, we turn to one another.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“In another life.” I forced a smile.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“I know what we're about to do. It doesn't change the fact that I want to strip that dress off you and see what I find beneath it."
"You'll find knives," I said, narrowing my eyes at him.
His smile was dark - almost feral. "Wicked women are my weakness.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“It’s much easier to give advice about other people’s lives than it is to navigate your own.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Oh, how you wound me. I would rather be holding your head over a bucket than whispering sweet nothings to any of the ladies in this court.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“One day soon, you will have to make a choice. Be a torch for just one soul in the dark…or burn like the sun for all of them.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“I thought I knew what jealousy was, and then you saw him. The man you’ve always wanted. The man you’d choose if you had your way. And I almost slaughtered him right there.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“He tastes like lost dreams and a thousand sleepless nights. He tastes like young love and bitter heartbreak.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“It takes strength to mourn. It’s . . . it’s easier to wrap yourself in numb apathy and refuse to think of the people you’ve lost”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“Bravery is a choice. However, you can’t wait until the moment you need to be brave to reach for that bravery. Because if you haven’t been purposefully tending to it, building it up, you may find that it is not there when you need it. You must stoke the fires of courage little by little, day by day, so they are burning bright long before you ever need them. And you fuel or douse those fires—fanning the flames or snuffing them out—with the words you say to yourself. And with the words you allow others to say about you in your presence.”
― Stacia Stark, A Queen This Fierce and Deadly

“There’s no worse feeling than watching someone you love die. The helplessness slices you into pieces. And grief sets those pieces on fire. Until you’re nothing but ash.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“I’d told her she was mine, but she hadn’t truly accepted it. Soon, she would learn exactly what that meant.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“Even if the fates hadn’t tied us together, I would have chosen her every day for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“Survive because you deserve to survive.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“Figured you’d be going over it in your head,” he said gruffly, grabbing a pillow. “Sleep, savage woman. I’ll keep you safe.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely