Berd ♡ > Berd ♡'s Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Let’s start with a love story. Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed. Girls who haul water for witches. Girls who wander through deserts or sleep in ashes or make homes for transformed brothers in the woods. Girls without hands, without eyes, without the power of speech, without any power at all. But then a prince rides up and sees the girl and finds her beautiful. Beautiful, not despite her suffering, but because of it.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. Be good, but not too good. Be pretty, but not too pretty. Be honest, but not too honest. Maybe no one got lucky. Maybe it was too hard.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“You’re awful.” He said it as though he was delighted. “And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your hearts blood should run cold.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Sometimes it’s easier to be mad at the people close to us,” Vivi said, “than to be mad at the people who deserve it.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“How does it feel?” he asked. “To be stuck in a fairy tale?”
“How does it feel to be one?”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“that’s one good thing about being obedient and faithful and good. People think you will never surprise them.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I stop myself from apologizing-because what would I even be sorry for? Existing too loud?”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Growing up, I realized quite quickly that people hate being called racist more than they hate racism itself.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“They say love and hate are the same, just at different ends of the blade”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I hate how they have the power to kill my future, kill me. They treat my Black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that is dangerous and lethal, when really it’s them. The guys at the top powering everything.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I don’t straighten my hair because I hate it; I straighten it because everyone else hates it for me.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“The smell of bitch-ass liar is nauseating.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“But I know dreams are dangerous; they give me too much false hope.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I didn’t invent this twisted system that pits us against each other and makes us do crappy things for status—but I do know how to play it.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“And I won’t roll over and let someone else take my crown. Not in a million years.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“I’m Chiamaka fucking Adebayo—I don’t need some prick telling me who I am and who I should be.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Even though I know I shouldn’t care, it annoys me that when girls know what they want and how they’re going to get it, they’re seen as cocky. But guys who know what they want? They’re confident or strong.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades