Maggie > Maggie's Quotes

“Monsters couldn’t harm you if you were a monster, too.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“What is happily ever after to the child is a nightmare to the monster.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“I think deep down, some people don't want their stories yo have happy endings.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Survival could make villains of any of us.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“The nightmares had not taught him to fear the dark. The nightmares had taught him to become it.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“All of these people thought she’d failed, but really, her story had been stolen from her. And she had no idea how to get it back.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“My family is proof that even depressing stories need a punchline”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“With each new word spoken, Alistair glimpsed monsters out of the corner of his vision, like shadows writhing along the walls. There were dragons and goblins, leviathans and wraiths. In every story his family told, the villains won. They crossed the lines no one else would. They struck when the hero least expected it.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“The Lowe family had always been the undisputed villains of their town’s ancient, bloodstained story, and no one understood that better than the Lowe brothers.
The family lived on an isolated estate of centuries-worn stone, swatched in moss and shadowed in weeping trees. On mischief nights, children from Ilvernath sometimes crept up to its towering wrought iron fence, daring their friends to touch the padlock chained around the gate—the one engraved with a scythe.
Grins like goblins, the children murmured, because children in Ilvernath loved fairy tales—especially real ones. Pale as plague and silent as spirits. They’ll tear your throat out and drink your soul.
All these tales were deserved.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“and wondered what it would be like to have someone in his life like that. Someone who knew him. Someone who saw him. Someone who would celebrate when, not if, he came home”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“Isn’t it better to have hope?”
No, not for her. Isobel might not have ever called the Macaslan estate her home, but she had been raised on a legacy of corpses and filth and rot, scavenging in the most revolting places for magick so her family could thrive. And in a choice between an ugly reality and a pretty delusion, Isobel would always choose the truth.
“But the hope is empty,” she said. “Why can’t you understand that?”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“She didn’t want the outside world hedging bets on which of these people she’d grown up with lived or died.
Innes had called the tournament a pattern. Patterns could be disrupted.
Reid had called it a machine. Machines could be broken.
Briony had only ever thought of it as a fairy tale. But even the grandest stories eventually found their ending.
And so, in the shadow of her family’s Landmark, unchosen, unwanted, Briony vowed that this ending would somehow be caused by her.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“I never claimed not to be despicable, too”
― Amanda Foody, All of Us Villains

“The world hadn’t paid Ilvernath a passing thought for hundreds of years. Not its bizarre natural phenomenon. Not its whispered fairytales. Not the blood splattered across the secret pages of its history.
Until now.”
― Amanda Foody, christine lynn Herman, All of Us Villains

“Heroes are just villains with worse survival instincts and moral superiority complexes.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Of course what happens to you matters. Because it matters to you. Because you feel something, right now. That's enough, isn't it? Doesn't that make it mean something?”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“The Grieves had raised Gavin to die. The Lowes had raised Alistair to kill.
Both of them deserved a better story.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“If I'm going to die either way, I'd rather be a casualty in a good story than a terrible one. And that's what I want for you, too. A good story.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“And no tale was ever heard of him again.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“...a strong heart will always overcome a strong body”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“You stole it from the master."
"Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen

“.....Just because it's possible doesn't mean its wise”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne

“No, my lady. If I cannot look at you as an equal, i will not look at you at all”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Was it hard?" I ask.
Letting go?"

Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
― Lisa Schroeder

“We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels