Vivienne > Vivienne's Quotes

“Name one hero who was happy."
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Eat, Your Highness. "
"Everything tastes like doom, " he whispered.
"Then add salt.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf.

I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times.

And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He weeps as he lifts me on to our bed. My corpse sags; it is warm in the tent, and the smell will come soon. He does not seem to care. He holds me all night long, pressing my cold hands to his mouth.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles