Lilly Britting > Lilly's Quotes

“I feel like my life keeps happening to me, rather than me living it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“It was a hard lesson to learn that sometimes it was better to remain lonely than to waste companionship and energy on someone undeserving.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Sometimes family isn’t a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes”—Evie smiled—“the people who love you most in your life are the ones who choose you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Granted, she didn't want to become evil, but when you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you begin to wish for rain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I don’t run from my demons. I welcome them. I let them envelop me until I grow stronger.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Adulthood should be illegal.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“She was afraid, but she knew now: fear usually meant you were standing on the edge of something new, something self-altering, something potentially good. Fear was not something she would shy away from ever again.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“If life was built on regrets, we’d have monuments the size of giants.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Caring about other people is very irritating.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Normal" was for those who didn't have the ability to stretch their minds past the unreachable end.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“It’s hard enough to put something back together once. A second time, I’m afraid, is too much to hope for.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“A weak man pushes blame away from himself like a disease, to poison and spread over the rest of the unsuspecting world.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“What could be better...for The Villian's whore."
Evie closed her palm and her eyes, feeling the burn of pain in every pore, feeling it pulse in her blood,
"Actually," she rasped out.
She opened her eyes.
"I'm. His. Fucking. Assistant,”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I would never make the mistake of underestimating a woman like you. It would be a fatal one.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“My stupidity is profound enough to be acknowledged, dammit.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Evie wasn’t certain why it mattered, but she was addicted to feeling useful. Without it, what value did she hold?”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Whatever he did, whatever happened that you ended up harmed, you are under no obligation to share it with me,” he called out, and when she turned around, he looked uncomfortable, like his clothes were too tight. “But if there is ever a time when you decide you do not want him existing in the same world as you are, I hope you know, I will enjoy destroying him.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“It had occurred to her many times over that "impossible" was merely a word people used to describe limitations they wished for you to adhere to, so you wouldn't upset the balance.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Because we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Of all the foolish, horrific things he'd ever accomplished, falling in love with a woman he so completely didn't deserve made the top of his list. But he did love her. It wasn't a question or eve a sudden realization. He'd known, hadn't he? It was like a tether was between them, wrapped directly around his heart, that she had the power to push and pull at her leisure. She was woven into his being; in the blink of his eyes, in the crinkle of his smile, in his rusty unused laughter, she was there. From the moment he'd met her, he thought of her like the sun. Bright and vibrant, untouchable. But he was wrong. She wasn't light; she was color. Every single one, dancing otherworldly and bright over his unworthy eyes. She was the explosion of the vivid gleams and glows of the world around him, like a constant rainbow, shining not after the rain but during. She was everything he never deserved but longed for anyways.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“I think I am very sad. But I won’t be forever.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“demonize what they cannot understand. It isn’t our job to educate them, just to live the way we’re meant to with the knowledge that being called a monster does not make you one.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“There is nothing written in any text, gods-created or not, that says we cannot be more than one thing. You’ve been told for a very long time that you are made for destruction, but there is nothing that says you cannot be more. You can be capable of bad and do good. You can do good things and still be bad. Nothing is set in stone, and if it helps, I’ll stand by you no matter who you choose to be.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“The destiny creature is searching for any ounce of goodness worth saving," Raphael called down to her. "It will test his resolve, his soul - and judging by his screams, he will not be saved. The creature will consume him and his soul. What can you possibly do?"

She shrugged against the panic trying to consume her and reached Trystan in three long strides, hovering her hand over his. She closed her fingers around destiny and its overwhelming light as she said with a sureness that was absolutely faked.

"I'll give him mine.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“No, I won’t help you. No, I won’t hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want and I just say no.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Walking might not be as good as psychotherapy, but it is the only way to feel like she is still moving forward in her life, even if she isn’t.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“We can never get back time—it’s one of life’s biggest tragedies but also one of its greatest motivators. If things were not finite, there would be no need to ever evaluate what is most important to us.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

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