Emily Varga > Quotes

“A history of women and girls being wronged by men who never had any consequences. Now I would be the consequences. “I choose vengeance. I choose death. And in the end, that’s what you chose too.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“And what was freedom worth if I still felt imprisoned?”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“For the same reason I haven't been able to sleep properly for the past year. Because when I dream, it's always of you. When I fight, it's your voice in the back of my skull.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“Maz’s betrayal that was a festering raw wound of hurt spreading to everything else.”
― Emily Varga, For She is Wrath

“I had a renewed motivation, a hope that I didn’t expect alive in my chest. With every new inch of earth dug I moved closer to the possibility.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“I’d follow you anywhere.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“Now excuse me while I go throw myself off your balcony.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“It isn’t easy admitting my weakness.”
“And is he one?”
“A weakness?”
She rolls her eyes. “No, a fat mango. Yes, a weakness.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“Or perhaps I needn’t have done anything. Perhaps he always had the capacity to do this to me, and I was too in love with him to see it.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“The ones closest to you will betray you the most.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“If I was going to get caught I might as well do it with the taste of chai on my lips.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“I hadn’t quite grappled with the depths of that betrayal, and with the fact that in my dark moments my treacherous mind still thought back to those memories when I needed comfort. As if I still had capacity to yearn for someone who wasn’t there to begin with.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“I was the rat, burrowing out of the trap, coming to rip out my captors' throats.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“Aww don’t you? Haven’t you always wanted the power to destroy your enemies? You practiced with a sword until your hands were bloody. You built a wall around yourself, so you would be untouchable. But yes, you want more than power. I will grant you that. You want something far more interesting. Retribution. Revenge. That I understand very well. I can give you the power to destroy an empire. To eviscerate a man and take from him all that he loves. That is what you crave. Is it not?”
― Emily Varga

“An unfamiliar kinship tugged at my heart, recognizing the shared emotion. We were more than just two escapees, we were two daughters, two people who had been wronged, two people trying to get back to what we once had, though we probably never would. This place had stolen years of our lives, and we wouldn't get the chance to live those again.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath

“If I didn’t know better, I would say it was sadness. Good. He should be fucking sad.”
― Emily Varga, For She Is Wrath