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

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

“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

“To err is human. To avenge is Divine.”
― 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

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

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

“Born to be a queen. Cursed to wrangle the egos of men.”
― 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

“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

“I don’t dream of being wanted anymore. I’d rather be feared.”
― 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”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Nothing fun ever happened in a library. Of that, Evan was certain.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Storm King

“I say. “I know when you’re a hammer”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Gaven gives me a slow once-over. “I’ve been fighting Drained since before you were a Divine daydream. You’re a child playing at being a man. Men don’t threaten. They act.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“the only silver mask shimmering in a sea of matte black.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“You can see me.” His smile softens the sharp lines of his face. “I can see you.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I want to feel you in my bed every night and every morning. I want your constant testing me. I want your absurd love of running. And”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“in this”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“When a community is built on removing access to information—from disempowering its people—there is no one to save them when a bigger threat rises. The first civilizations to fall are the ones where no one speaks truth to power”
― 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

“Tell her I love her. I should have protected her much better than I did. I know she won’t forgive me for what happened six months ago”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

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

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

“some liminal place”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Who did that to you?” he asks.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Since the attack ten years ago”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I should have enjoyed childhood while I could.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“In the deepest”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter