Signe > Signe's Quotes

“Listen, Kitten, we only have room for one drama queen, and that’s me, thank you very much. So take it down a notch, will ya?”
― Albany Walker, Friends with the Monsters

“If you need to run, always imply that you'll return.”
― Vanessa Len, Only a Monster

“They’d known each other far too long to think they could ever change each other’s natures.”
― Vanessa Len, Only a Monster

“You're a hero and I'm a monster", she whispered. "There's only one way that story ever ends.”
― Vanessa Len, Only a Monster

“There wasn’t going to be a happy ending, she reminded herself. She was a monster and he was a hero. Everyone knew how that story ended.”
― Vanessa Len, Only a Monster

“Where are you going?” He frowned. “Just don’t,” she said. “Don’t help. Don’t do anything else for me.” She felt his eyes on her as she walked away.”
― Vanessa Len, Only a Monster

“Emotions were for those too weak to turn them off.”
― Jennifer Estep, Spider's Bite

“Vhalla wasn’t exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“I can't even tell someone to have a good day without sounding like I secretly wish they'd die.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I am not a pretty thing to be manipulated. I am darkness.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I am shadow and darkness and stronger than the girl he sacrificed for the crown.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I am just a broken girl to them, a bleeding trophy from another land they've conquered," I say. "they don't see me as a threat”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I’m Abriella, the responsible one. The tough one. The boring one……The lonely one”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I am my own person. I don't just jump when asked and I won't neatly exist only where and how you or anyone else wants me to.”
― Elise Kova, A Trial of Sorcerers

“A long time ago, Roma had told Juliette that her anger was like a cold diamond. It was something she could swallow smoothly, something to be placed upon other people, gliding along their skin in glitter and glamour before they realized far too late that the diamond had sliced them into pieces. He had admired her for it. Mostly because his own anger was the precise opposite—an uncontrollable wave of fire that knew no subtlety.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She thought it preposterous that her father had to ask permission to run business on land their ancestors had lived and died on from men who had simply docked their boat here and decided they would like to be in charge now.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Paul jumped, unable to hide his surprise. Then he grinned and said, "Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. For a Chinese woman, your English is extraordinary. There is not a trace of an accent to be found."
"I have an American accent," she replied dully.
Paul waved her off. "You know what I mean."
Do I? she wanted to say. Would I be less if I sounded like my mother, my father, and all those in this city who were forced to learn more than one language, unlike you?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Anything would be better than standing motionless. When Juliette wanted to blow up in frustration, the only solution was blowing something else up.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“you love him enough to have him hate you.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She had once known him better than she knew herself.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“As always, when somebody said not to panic, the first thing one did was panic.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“You give your word. But you have always been a liar.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She’s too kindhearted for her own good,” Rosalind remarked.
“Let her be,” Juliette replied. “Too many kind hearts turn cold every day.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Killer. Violent. Ruthless. All those and more—that was who she was now.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“This was her life, this was her city, these were her people, and because she loved them, she had sworn to herself a long time ago that she would do a damn good job of being who she was because she could be no one else.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She could hardly tell the difference between the times when she was fighting and the times when she was barely holding herself together, crumbled pieces staggering forward step-by-step. Maybe those two were one and the same.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Wherever she went, no matter how far into the
darkest underbelly of the city she wandered, as long as she stayed within her territory, she was the reigning supreme.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“In response, five nearby Scarlet
gangsters who were waiting around a restaurant also stilled, waiting to see if they would be summoned.
They were killersand extortionistsand raging forces of violence, butas the rumors went, Juliette Cai was
the girl who had strangled and killed her American lover with a string of pearls. Juliette Cai was the
heiress who, on her second day back in Shanghai, had stepped into a brawl between four White Flowers
and two Scarletsand killed all four White Flowers with only three bullets.
Only one of those rumors was true.
Juliette smiled and waved to the Scarlet men. In response, one waved back, and the other four
nervously laughed among themselves. They feared Lord Cai’s wrath if anything were to happen to her,
but they feared her wrath more if they were to test the truth of the rumors.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar