Will

“This is because we don’t need love for an artificial creation, a mask. What we need, what we desperately long for, is love for the only thing we will never show anyone: the ugly, scared kid inside.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Fury

“That was the distasteful thing about villains, really. Not the manner in which they went about their business, which was certainly gruesome and morally corrupt, but the fact that they desired things so intensely. The heroes were always reluctant, always pushed into their roles, martyring themselves.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“If she could kill people like this, then manipulating him into believing she felt something for him would have been all too easy. Making an ally of him—making him love her enough to face his father on her behalf, to ensure that she was appointed Champion”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight