Antihero Quotes

“I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I am not the heroine of this story.

And I'm not trying to be cute. It's the truth. I'm diagnosed borderline and seriously fucked-up. I hold grudges. I bottle my hate until it ferments into poison, and then I get high off the fumes. I'm completely dysfunctional and that's the way I like it, so don't expect a character arc where I finally find Redemption, Growth, and Change, or learn How to Forgive Myself and Others.”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Far off, I heard a rumble. A land slip perhaps. Or maybe tank fire from thirty miles away. I figured the sounds of war would carry this far into the desert mountains.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“You have haunted me in my dreams,
Followed me in my memory,
And enamoured me…
…Nirvana…
Your name echoes in the most silent parts of my mind,
Brought to life by the memory of your touch, And the gentle sway of our bodies to the jazz music
You have become my obsession,
Of which I will never tire.

Salvatore”
― ANSA Reads, GODLY OBSESSION: How badly does she want her freedom?

“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together with one hand, and grasping, with the other, after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“I will never let you leave me. You can never run, and you can never hide because there is nowhere in this fucking world that I wouldn't find you and drag your ass back to me.”
― Jasmine Rov, Deadly Deception

“I swore I’d kick him in the balls the next time I saw him.”
― Noyar Cecil, Burning Him Insane: A Dark Student–Professor Enemies-to-Lovers Romance

“I thought I was the one ruining her innocence. But it was her. She was the one who came into my life to ruin me. To ruin the king of California’s underworld. To ruin Alessio, the man every fucking person in this state fears. To take a man who had always been free and bind him to her.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“Every thought of her makes me want to go berserk, to kill whoever comes between us.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“Without you, there’s only darkness. I never knew what the sun felt like before. But now that I do, now that I know what you can make me feel, I hate the darkness.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“Yes, I am selfish. If I were not a selfish man, I would have never let you come near me.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“I'm not a good person, Meilin," he said. "But the difference between me and your little Anlai hero-I've never pretended otherwise.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“You will wish for nothing, butterfly. You will have every comfort you need, including the protection of my court in your precious search for this home you desire. Just be mindful that should you find whatever that might be...” Flurries emerged, his words a cold and overt warning. “You will belong only to me.” - Florian”
― Ella Fields, Nectar of the Wicked

“I have only one king. One god. There is only one man in this world whom I worship.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“I am Alessio. The king of California’s underworld. If anyone here has a problem with my presence, it can be solved by eliminating their existence.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“He is fire. If you will touch him, you will burn to ashes.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“And I can’t wait any longer to taste my queen.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“You look like a perfect queen, and if we didn’t have an event to attend, I’d show you just how perfect you are in more than one ways.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“I don’t need anyone to tell me he will protect me. I already know, my body, my heart and my soul are safe with the man the world calls the king of the underworld.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“Your daughter has my soul.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“Yes, Sole Mio, we have a long life together, a long time for you to teach me how to love and for me to keep learning, and loving you endlessly.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“And isn’t that how the world works? The prince gets his princess and devils like me don’t even deserve the thought of it.”
― Noyar Cecil, Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance

“Dally didn’t die a hero. He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he’d die someday. . . . But Johnny was right. He died gallant.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“I could have the world’s best painter try to recreate what I’m looking at right now,” he began, those soulless eyes looking across my face, unbothered by whatever I had to say, “and he could never truly capture you as beautiful as you are right now, my little mouse.”
― ANSA Reads, GODLY OBSESSION: How badly does she want her freedom?

“The Ballad of Harry Lime by Stewart Stafford

Harry found existence overrated,
And its shadow, morality, so outdated,
Scurrying rats down here in the sewer,
Porcine gluttons in punished manure.

Grand aspirations from primordial slime,
Lifting up the rock from time to time,
Samson, destroying a temple of hypocrisy,
And every pillar - hope, faith and charity,

They'd had him from baptism's font,
Trapped before wording his wants,
A heel dipped in brackish liturgy,
Silent collusion in mass duplicity.

For those who remained in smoky rubble?
Rudely awakened from a cocoon bubble:
An obelisk erected to grotesque finance,
Charon’s fee for a Stygian dance.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I mouth along as Taylor Swift sings about how everyone agrees: it's her that's the problem.
Same girl, same.”
― Sophie Stava, Count My Lies

“This city doesn't want saving. It wants control. And magic... magic always picks a side.”
― Bugsy Jones, Warlock: Volume 1

“Nothing Man by Stewart Stafford

I return to plague night's wanderers,
Dark hours and thoughts personified,
Driven by this scorching crusade,
Agitation flooding my skewed brain.

Many have tried to kill me and failed,
They think material weapons can work,
I am immaterial and absorb punishment;
An elemental fire they cannot extinguish.

No targets are off limits to me, I fear,
Aye, I am an equal opportunities predator,
Praying for my victims as I prey upon them,
Then am I consumed, at one with darkness.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I take it back," he said grumpily. "I don't like feisty women. More trouble than they're worth.”
― K.X. Song, The Dragon Wakes with Thunder