Helen Scheuerer > Quotes

“A true man won’t cut you down as you fight your battles, nor will he fight them for you. A true man will help sharpen your sword, guard your back and fight at your side, in the face of whatever darkness comes.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“It doesn’t matter who stands against you… What matters most is who stands with you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“No woman is responsible for the weak acts of a man who’s had his masculinity so easily threatened,”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“You will come to learn that most things to be feared exist in life, not in death”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“Who.’ Hawthorne demanded. ‘Who did this to you?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“The bitch hit me!’ Esyllt frowned, not even sparing Thea a glance. ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about. But if you’re insisting that an untrained woman landed a punch on you, then I’d say you’re the bitch Sebastos.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“If you need words of comfort, perhaps remember this: there are all kinds of darkness in this world. Some good, some bad, and some with no agenda at all. It’s what that darkness means to you and what you do with it yourself that matters most.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“If you seek power in a world of men and monsters, there is nothing more powerful than knowledge and the ability to wield it.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“Love and loss so intricately entwined. You cannot have one without the other, unfortunately.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Reign of Mist

“You look like you’re going to kiss me,” she said, her body calling out for his touch. “You look like you’d enjoy it,” he replied, his fingers entwining with hers.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Only in the fires of adversity can true greatness be forged.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“She would rather live a hundred lives in three years than waste the little time she had left in these realms.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“Remember that glory will not be found in failing to fall, but in rising from the chaos when you do.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“For her he would bleed a thousand times over. For this fraction of a life with her, he’d pay the price of grief – for loving her was a privilege, and that privilege was worth any cost.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Shadow & Storms

“Love didn’t happen once, she realised. It happened every day, in little moments, in the quiet gaps between grand words, in the lingering touches, in the hope it promised in the dark. Love was something that breathed and expanded, that was made and remade, again and again, reforged only to become stronger.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“The past has a way of showing us the right path. Inevitably, the same mistakes were made once before, and to know this is great power.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Heart of Mist

“I do, you know', she ventured. 'Think of you.'
Gods, his chest ached, and it took all his self-restraint not to go to her. 'And I you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“But it's not about the fleeting moments that came before or the number of lovers who've warmed a bed. It's about the person who's holding your hand at the end, the person you can't let go of no matter how hard you might have tried.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“We take our happiness when and where we can. I’m glad you found yours, even if it’s in the middle of a storm of darkness.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“You do not become a legend overnight,’ he told her quietly. ‘A legend is forged with blood and steel. It takes time.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“No one deserved to feel unsafe in their own skin for someone else’s pleasure.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Heart of Mist

“Furies know I have tried to stay away. I have tried to protect you from this. But the force of it, the force of you…
I can’t take it anymore. I want you Wren. I want you so badly I can’t breathe.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Thorns & Fire

“We have lived in the shadow of the rights and laws of men. But when the world is reborn, it will be of our own making. You’re fighting for that world, and you have the same right to armour as the rest of us. You are surrounded by women who want to see you empowered, and that is stronger than any fucking army in these realms. Don’t let the world – don’t let anyone convince you that you’re not enough. Only you define your story. You and you alone. When they tell you what you’re not, when they tell you what you can’t do, remember: you are the storm, Elwren. You split the skies and flood the plains. You make the ground tremble beneath their boots. No one can fucking stop you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Shadow & Storms

“Knowledge is the victor over fate. The mind is the blade.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Althea.’ Her name sounded like a melody and he leaned across the gap between their horses, his gaze dropping to her lips, his voice low. ‘There is nothing more attractive than a woman who knows what she wants.’ Her body went taut. Hawthorne hesitated, before pulling away. ‘Remember that.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“I had it under control.’ ‘I know you did.’ ‘Then why interfere?’ ‘Because you did not pick that battle, and sometimes, it’s nice to be fought for.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“You are surrounded by women who want to see you empowered, and that is stronger than any fucking army in these realms. Don’t let the world – don’t let anyone convince you that you’re not enough. Only you define your story. You and you alone.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Shadow & Storms

“I am the storm.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Fate & Furies

“Who did this to you?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Blood & Steel

“We survived it,” he told her. “You and me. Together.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers