Eva Chase > Quotes

“I’d like to tell you that I died in epic fashion, guns blazing in the middle of a vast street brawl, or at least something scandalously hot, like falling off a balcony during the most incredible sex of my life. The truth? My death was cringingly mundane.”
― Eva Chase, Claimed by Gods

“You can't always be fine. But when you're not, I'll be there for you.”
― Eva Chase, Twilight Crook

“It might make you feel better to know that from what I've seen, love doesn't come all that easily to anyone.”
― Eva Chase, Twilight Crook

“We are the things we say and do, not the things we don't.”
― Eva Chase, Dusk Avenger

“The only person whose condemnation I’d have to deal with was my own. With that lovely thought swimming through my hangover-addled head, I drifted back to my bedroom.”
― Eva Chase, Crooked Magic

“Maybe some of them were monsters. Maybe we were all monsters. But that didn't mean there was nothing good in us.”
― Eva Chase, Dark Champion

“Hope shouldn’t be as distant as the stars.”
― Eva Chase, Lies of Murk

“We don't always appreciate our history.”
― Eva Chase, Dark Champion

“If wielded properly, a fact could be a sharper weapon than any blade.”
― Eva Chase, Falling for Gods

“A prickle of apprehension quivered down my spine. You know the feeling when you realize that the thing you’re in the middle of doing might actually be a horrible idea—but you’re so committed already that stopping would feel even worse? Yeah. I lived there so often I might as well have made it my permanent address.”
― Eva Chase, Shadow Thief

“I don’t think bullying sleep into arriving has ever worked out well for anyone.”
― Eva Chase, Chosen by Villains

“I giveth, and I taketh away.”
― Eva Chase, A Study in Seduction

“To the mad, wouldn’t sanity look like madness?”
― Eva Chase, Wicked Wonderland

“Having you in my life, loving you—it makes me stronger. Every challenge is easier to meet. Every setback easier to face. Never doubt that you have made my life better in every possible way.”
― Eva Chase, Ravens of Winter

“Sometimes it takes a monster to fight monsters.”
― Eva Chase, Dark Champion

“No, I think it’s good to have some kind of dreams. Even if I’m too scared to really hold on to them just yet. I’m glad… I’m glad that we’ve gotten to a place where we can have dreams like that.”
― Eva Chase, Fearsome Dream

“I don’t have much conscience to go around—I’d like to keep any weight off it that I can.”
― Eva Chase, A Study in Seduction

“I smiled. Complacency was a thief’s best friend.”
― Eva Chase, Shadow Thief

“Physicality wasn’t just about what you could do with your own body but creating solid things too. What kind of figurines could I create with magic as my clay?”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“I was Jemma Moriarty. I could play the world like Sherlock played his fucking violin. Why not?”
― Eva Chase, A Study in Seduction

“I do. I want you.”
― Eva Chase, Royals of Villain Academy: Books 1 - 4

“Declan stopped at the sight of me, his eyebrows rising. “Are you okay?” he asked, with just a touch of that gentle concern I’d heard in his voice that morning in my parents’ house.
The last of my patience disintegrated. I looked at him, letting all the frustration running through me burn in my gaze. “If I’m not, are you actually going to do anything about it?” He opened his mouth and hesitated, his hand twitching at his side.
That was all the answer I had to see. “All right then,” I said, and marched on past him without a backward glance.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“Sometimes the right thing hurts.”
― Eva Chase, Dark Champion

“I'd never forgotten I was a monster.”
― Eva Chase, Dark Champion

“To begin with, you could focus on your breathing. Feel it traveling into and out of your lungs. Let it fill your chest fully before you expel it. Get a sense of control over it, and of how by moderating it, you can moderate your emotions.” Apparently he could tell that my emotions were in severe need of moderation. I sucked in a breath, shaky with frustration. My hands balled at my sides. No, that definitely didn’t fit the exercise. I had to give this a real try. Maybe there wasn’t some artificial block inside me that was keeping me from my dragon. Maybe I was the one holding it in, holding myself too tight and tense around it. I inhaled more slowly, letting the air flow into my lungs. My ribs expanded. The breath”
― Eva Chase, The Dragon Shifter's Mates: The Complete Series

“I wanted to be a woman who could...handle the hearts of those who cared about me with the care they deserved in return.”
― Eva Chase, Twilight Crook

“The types of magic we do are divided into four major domains: Physicality, Illusion, Persuasion, and Insight.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“She wasn’t just beautiful. I’d never seen the kind of determined ferocity with which she’d pushed back at Malcolm before. She had principles, and she was willing to fight for them, hard. It made me want to fight for her.”
― Eva Chase, Cruel Magic

“As far as I could see right now, it wasn't Rory breaking up the pentacle of scions. Malcolm was doing that all by himself.”
― Eva Chase, Vile Sorcery

“You know that if you bail him out, it just gives him more chances to screw up, right? At a certain point, helping becomes enabling.”
― Eva Chase, Wicked Wonderland