Helene > Helene's Quotes

“What do you want then?"
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“Crooked smiles for crooked hearts.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Incendiary

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Breakable. No matter who we are we are breakable.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Incendiary

“There is so much wrong in the world." she says. "Sometimes, I feel the only thing I can give is a bit of kindness, even when I can't give hope.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Incendiary

“Sometimes I wonder if a person can have so much regret they'll drown in it.”
― Zoraida Córdova, Incendiary

“I take one last look at my reflection in the mirror. Ashes already flake down over my cheeks and nose, marking me. The red stain I used on my lips looks like fresh blood. Underneath, I see bits and pieces of my mother staring back at me, but twisted with hate and fury my mother never needed to know.
I'm not sorry for it.
I am angry.
I am hungry.
And I promise myself that one day I will watch them all burn.”
― Laura Sebastian, Ash Princess

“Our promises don’t matter. No one expects us to have any honor. Everyone knows we lie.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Love does not always wear the face we wish,” she said. “I wish my love had been more beautiful. I wish … I wish we had more time.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“Lust is safer than love, but both can ruin you.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“He didn't understand that sometimes the only way to take down what had destroyed you was to disguise yourself as part of it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“Séverin Montagnet-Alarie knew there was only one difference between monsters and gods. Both inspired fear. Only one inspired worship.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“My life, and whatever is left of it, will not be what his soul gnaws on to regain its strength. My death is not in service of his character, and I will not be a sacrifice simply for him to find his peace of mind. He is not my responsibility to save.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“Maybe for girls made of snow, love was worth the melt. But she was made of stolen bones and sleek fur, grave dirt and strange blood - her heart wasn’t even hers to give. Her soul was all she had, and no love was worth losing it.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I l still love you so much that I hate you for it”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Don't miss," Roma said.

"I never do," Juliette replied”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“You know me. Running around. Living life. Committing arson.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“Nation over everything. But not you, sweetheart. Never your life in exchange”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“A city reborn is a city traumatized.
It remembers its past, every second that it took to get to this point. It sees the former version of itself and knows that it has changed, its boots no longer fitting, its hats no longer comfortable. The streets trace how they used to sprawl. No matter how it is paved over and reorganized, memories and echoes do not fade away that easily.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune

“I can be feminine in all my rage.
I can be girl and woman, and claws with teeth.
Watch me burn.”
― Venetta Octavia

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
― Kait Rokowski