Maze > Maze's Quotes

“Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.”
― Chris Cannon, Going Down in Flames

“Where in a medical dictionary does it say a woman cannot handle such things? What is a man's soul made of that a woman's is not? I had no idea my innards were composed of cotton and kittens, while yours are filled with steel and steam-driven parts.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Pretending a monster wasn't there didn't make it go away. It only made one vulnerable to its attack.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond.”
“If only we had a captain here.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

“But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in was not an option.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“But I'm a wanted fugitive, like Cinder." Thorne continued. "They do realise I'm missing, don't they?"
"Maybe they're grateful," Cinder muttered.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

“A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Not doing pictures these days?" Jacin muttered as they hurried through the shop. "How very Lunar of you."

Cinder glared against the sudden, burning sunlight. "Very wanted criminal of me too.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“To be all right implies an impossible phase. We hope for mostly right on the best of our days.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn’t believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Wield your assets like a blade, Cousin. No man has invented a corset for our brains. Let them think they rule the world. It’s a queen who sits on that throne. Never forget that.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“They might need us now because we're valuable, might pretend to accept us, to reward us - but never forget what they did to us first.”
― Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones

“Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he’ll never truly command it. I am your daughter, not your horse, sir.”

I stepped closer, enjoying the way Father leaned away from me as if he were just now discovering that a cat, while precious and cute, also had sharp claws. “I’d rather be a lowly wretch on the streets than live in a house full of cages. Do not lecture me on propriety when it’s a virtue you so grossly lack.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“I smiled, leaning over the desk and used the sweetest tone I could muster. "In my spare time I flay open bodies of the deceased. Two of whom were victims of Leather Apron. The scent that hung in the room would drop a man to his knees, and I aided my uncle during the postmortems while standing in gelled blood." I sat back in my chair, the leather squeaking its own disapproval. "Whatever you have to show us won't be too much for my stomach to handle, I assure you.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Seeing the truth was never easy, especially when it revealed those closest to us could be monsters hidden in plain sight.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Monsters are only as real as the stories that grant them life. And they only live for as long as we tell those tales.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“Monsters were in the eye of the beholder. And no one wanted to discover their hero was the true villain of the story.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“Humans were the true monsters and villains, more real than any novel or fantasy could invent.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“It is a sad truth that we do not live in a world where differences are accepted.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“The world needed to be better. And if it wasn’t possible for it to be better, we, its inhabitants, needed to do better.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“We needn't complete each other, we complemented each other.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“When I was adventuring between the pages of a book, I wasn’t sad over things I was missing outside.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil