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

“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

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

“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

“You get to believe anything you want. Why would you choose to believe you will fail?”
― 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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“The pain of loss never ends. It never gets better. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. The agony of “what if” eats at you hour by hour”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“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

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

“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

“Look at everything you’ve achieved while being a shell of a person. Imagine what you could do if you let yourself heal.”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“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

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

“You were broken before you even walked in here”
― Stacia Stark, We Who Will Die

“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

“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

“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