Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

by Ameriie

We love villains because they turn their aches into action, their bruises into battering rams.

villains are extremely important factors in young adult literary fiction. Without them, how do we see the good in a novel?

Death is awake, and so he is hungry. He is hungry, and so he is awake.

She is awake, and so she is hungry. She is hungry, and so she is awake.

They resist lacing their fingers with your bare-boned hand. They run from you, because in a way they feed on life, too. They’re fueled by moments, memories, experiences, and people. They don’t want their time to end, so they resist you. They resist their last dance with death.

You inhale life but exhale chaos.

You let him live, but you took his life. Fair trade.

You have to be in charge of telling your own story. And sometimes the princess needs to get off her ass, pick up a sword, and slay the dragon herself.

A life is a series of past moments, all of them leading you to the present one. The moment doesn’t have to be an event. It can be a sudden insight that changes how you see yourself in the world. These moments serve to clarify you, to sharpen who you really are for yourself and for others.