Nyx > Nyx's Quotes

“The real quote is 'the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,’" I say. And it means the exact opposite of what people assume. It means that the family they choose, the bonds a person makes in life is stronger than that of the connection of blood relatives. Because in the end, the family that a person is born with doesn't always necessarily see you as anything more than a possession or a meal ticket.”
― Lucy Smoke, Pretty Little Savage

“Good idea. I could use a snack.” Andarna’s tone is indecently excited. “We do not eat our allies,” Tairn lectures. “You never let me have any fun.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“There’s nowhere in existence you could go that I wouldn’t find you, Violence.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Oh, gods.”
“Which one are you calling out for? Because it’s just you and me in this room, Vi, and I don’t share.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“My breath catches and my body warms, the traitorous bitch. You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I don’t deserve you. But I’m going to keep you all the same.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Sometimes the only way to keep what you need is to let go of what you want.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Words are just as capable of eviscerating someone as a blade,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“It only takes one desperate generation to change history—even erase it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“She makes a good point," Andarna agrees. "Can you carry a luminary?"
"That question insults me."
"Can you carry a luminary while insulted?" she prods.
Tairn growls.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Sometimes bad things happen. And there’s no blame to be placed. You can’t reason with the universe, no matter how sound your logic is … We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“you must prepare to accept luck as your guide and chaos as your standard.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“The best leaders are the ones who never want the job.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“You preach peace while only having known its privilege,” Andarna hisses in retort. “You are all a disappointment to me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“Panic winds its way around my heart and digs her nails in, but I shove the insidious bitch straight out before she can get a good grip.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“I know it was the not telling you. I get it. But when the lives of everyone around you depend on how well you can lie, it’s not easy to realize it’s the truth that will save you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I breathe deeply and fight to shove the feelings back into the neat little box that holds all my inconvenient emotions, tugging my shields tight around me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Beautiful. Fucking. Asshole.
My breath catches and my body warms, the traitorous bitch. You are not attracted to toxic men, I remind myself, and yet, here I am, getting all attracted.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“And it's for the best. Your mother has never understood that while riders may be the weapons of our kingdom, it's the scribes who have all the real power in this world.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Don’t mind her, she’s just sexually frustrated. Makes a girl crabby.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“When you told me that this place strips everything away from you to reveal what’s underneath, I was afraid. What if underneath the brittle bones and frail ligaments, there was just more weakness? Only this time, I wouldn’t be able to blame my body.” “You’ve never been weak to me, Vi—” Dain starts, but I shake my head. “Don’t you get it?” I interrupt. “It doesn’t matter what you think—it only matters what I think.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“It’s yours.” My head snaps up, but there’s no lie in his onyx eyes. “I had it made for you.” His lips curve slightly. “What?” My mouth opens, and my chest tightens. He took the time to have it made? Shit. That gives me feelings I really don’t want to have. Soft, confusing feelings.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing