Mariel Pomeroy > Quotes

“Don't believe the truths told to you by the light. The brightness you're used to casts the most vicious of shadows.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“You’re not broken, your soul simply demanded room to grow”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“When you’re stretching yourself around those pretty little fingers pretending they’re mine, I’ll know about it.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Maybe his people had left him too, maybe that was another rotten thing that lived inside of them both–a thing so broken and heavy that others couldn’t bear it. Aheia was used to others leaving. Everyone always left. And for some reason, pretending it was something buried deep in her genetics made it feel less like her fault.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“it would be too simple, letting yourself be happy. You’d rather sink into your heaviness because it makes you feel something. Anything. Isn’t that right? You’re holding on to the fear and the pain because you don’t know who you are without them. You’re afraid to let them go because then you might have to actually live a life that isn’t rooted in hardship.” He took another step. “Happiness scares you, and anger and sadness are familiar. It’s an age-old story. You’re not special.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“The blood of the covenant you chose over the water of the womb you were born from.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Show me that helfyre tonight, little goddess. But more importantly, show them,” he said.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Don’t believe the truths told to you by the light. The brightness you’re used to casts the most vicious of shadows.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Violence from beautiful creatures,” he said, flourishing his hand and retrieving a needle and thread from somewhere inside his shadows. Then he leaned over, just as he dropped the two things in her small hands, his lips brushing the shell of her ear, “. . . is one of the things I like.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“If you’re going to hurt me, you’d better look me in the fucking eyes when you do it.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“But none of it worked”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Show me that helfyre tonight, little goddess. But more importantly, show them.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“He wanted to see what it looked like when she truly begged, and imagined it would be so fucking pretty.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Don’t be greedy, little goddess,” he chided. “You’ll get just as much as I want to give you.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“You’re under my fucking skin and you haven’t left since the day I ripped your soul from you.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“Death’s flower doesn’t belong in the outside world. It belongs in mine.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Maz seemed to be made for the dead.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“You look beautiful covered in the blood of your enemies.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“he heard a soft noise—not quite a whimper, not quite a groan—but every bit of it enticing. He wanted to see her face the next time she made a sound like that.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“She was met with a stare that spoke of burnt secrets and gray ash, eyes that were flecked with embers, dark and angry. His gaze felt like a touch, like the rough slide of hands against her skin and the promise of tight grips and harsh words.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“Nature, just like fate, couldn’t be fought once she made up her mind.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“There had been so much blood in her short life, the good tainted by the bad long ago. It left her unable to separate the memories she held close to her heart from the looming darkness and frigid ice she carried in her veins.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“it’s easier to wage war on the back of semantics.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“The ones that nourish you and the ones that poison you can look the same.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“We’re all broken, Aheia. It’s what gives us strength. Only the broken can grow.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“because acceptance of death was what preceded surrender.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“The size of our bodies has nothing to do with our worth. They’re simply a vessel for our minds.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“I think the Gods have a plan for each of us. I think that we are placed in deliberate hardships so that we can become who we are meant to be.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey

“Excuse the fuck out of me,” Lúc snapped...”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Helfyre

“The young version of you—you know her because she knows you. Who you are now”—she felt the warmth seep in where he held her—“is who she would have needed then. It’s who she would have felt safe around when she wasn’t safe with anyone else.”
― Mariel Pomeroy, Honey