Sheila Masterson > Quotes

“I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The only thing more dangerous than a man with a bruised ego is a woman with a score to settle.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“That’s what it is to have a sister—to love her, envy her, and also be in awe at how much better than you she is. Having a sister is pressing your heart up against another heart and seeing how your hurt and triumph mirror each other. It’s saying, “There’s no pain you carry that I don’t carry too. As long as I’m here, you’re never alone.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“In the absence of a conscience, men need something to fear. I’ve made myself their monster.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“To err is human. To avenge is Divine.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Born to be a queen. Cursed to wrangle the egos of men.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Yes, I want your anger. Be as mad at me as you need to, just not from a forest away. Stay with me. Make me suffer for it. I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I don’t think I’m better than you,” I say. “I think we’ve been speaking your language my entire life and neither of you have bothered to learn mine. I’ve been forcing myself into a family system that doesn’t fit me”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“My wife is trying to poison me—and I like it. I am fully entranced by her viciousness.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“One moment, he’s taunting me. The next, he’s slitting a man’s throat for touching me.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“It was easy to be brave with a sword in your hands—much harder to be brave with your heart in them.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Memory Curse

“I will come for you in every darkness, and I will carry you out, or I will sit with you there until you can walk out on your own.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Storm King

“Because it’s not an appeal to their empathy that will make men fall in line. It’s the fear that they aren’t the most dangerous thing walking these streets.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The doubt it casts is a knife plunged in my gut that will twist any time I doubt him again. The suspicion never leaves, and he knows it. He will tie me up in knots and I will let him. Not because I don’t know better, but because I do, and I still can’t let go of the possibility that it might be different this time.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I’ll make sure you are not a villain in this story. I will make sure you are nothing at all so that you are forgotten.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The surprise on their faces is so typical. Men are always shocked when they meet resistance to their plans. Comfort has made them all complacent. I have no such luxury. I was very young when I learned not to expect any softness from life. Violence came for me the way it does for all women. It hunted me”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Why all the murder?” he asks as he presses the door open. “We all need a hobby.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“All these years and you still haven’t learned. You’ve never stopped trying to break me. But I do not break. I am the breaker.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Grief is not an absence. It’s a presence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I resent that my very survival required that I understand my parents, but they have never once tried to understand me. This gives them a convenient way to be dismissive of everything I feel as an overreaction. It places all of the burden of managing our relationship on me. It means that they get to roll their eyes and act like I’m dramatic and ungrateful.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Violence came for me the way it does for all women. It hunted me”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Spite is usually the only motivation I require.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“This is the true beginning of your tale”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“That’s what it is to have a sister—to love her, envy her, and also be in awe at how much better than you she is. Having a sister is pressing your heart up against another heart and seeing how your hurt and triumph mirror each other.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“And what? You want me to talk about my feelings”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Just because you can bear your pain better doesn’t mean you should have to.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Yes”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I want it to be real, if only for now.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Though all of us who nearly died in the Drained attack ten years ago couldn’t see color for a time, those who fall in love seem to get that back through a divine mystery we still don’t understand.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I can’t wait for everyone to take one look at her and know she’s just been fucked by her new husband on her way to mourn the old one.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter