The Damned Quotes

“What I am has no bearing on who I become.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“And Gilles, menacing and aloof, rides through the deserted villages with their sobbing, shuttered buildings. His impunity seems assured, what peasant would be mad enough to challenge a seignior capable of having him strung up at the drop of a hat?

'And just as the lowly born renounce bringing him to justice, his peers have no intention of seeking to bring him down for the sale of a load of peasants whom they openly despise...

'There is only one power which can rise above such feudal imbalances and earthly interests, only one power which avenges the oppressed and the weak; that of the Church. And it is indeed , the Church, in the person of Jean de Malestroit, which challenges the monster and fells him.”
― J-K Huysmans

“In the end, the monsters did possess the better stories.”
― Renée Ahdieh - The Beautiful

“A true hero would find a way back to her. Would seek a path of redemption for his lost soul. A chance to stand one more in the light.
There is no such path. And I am no one's hero. So I choose the way of destruction.”
― Renée Ahdieh

“The coatings laid on by civilization are probably thin enough in all of us.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Damned

“Even though the reality was I was as far from the Gothic Towers of Romantic Fiction as I was to the moon, I saw no reason why you couldn't aspire to a life less ordinary.”
― Dave Vanian