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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“In another life.” I forced a smile.”
― 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

“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

“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 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

“I vow to be the roots that ground you, the branches that help you reach for your dreams, and the shelter that forever keeps you safe. I will love you in every life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Queen This Fierce and Deadly

“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

“Your heart doesn’t stop beating when you lose someone you love. The world doesn’t end. It just feels like it does.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy

“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

“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

“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

“Men. So utterly predictable with their insistence on diminishing women to girls in an attempt to belittle us.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“This is never going to work. You and I. We’re doomed. You know that.” He sighed, and I closed my eyes, basking in the feel of his breath against my neck. “I know.” He slowly drew back. “But that doesn’t mean I won’t wish for you with every fucking breath for the rest of my life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“Expecting others to uphold your moral standards will leave you disappointed every time.”
― Stacia Stark, A Court This Cruel & Lovely

“All the boy heard was that he was too much. Too much, and yet not enough.”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“And if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces. ​— ​DERRY GIRLS”
― Stacia Stark, A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty

“I think sometimes it's meant to be complicated, for it to be worth it. Maybe the complication and the struggle and the heartbreak is the price you have to pay to have that one person who fits you.”
― Stacia Stark, Inner Demons

“Falling in love with Prisca was the most inconvenient thing to ever happen to me. And if I had never met her, I would have lived a long, empty life.”
― Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy