Nell > Nell's Quotes

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Magic is forgetting the world was ever other than as you willed it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“Men want power because it makes them feel good. Women want power because it lets us do things.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“You like this place?"

"Of course I do. It has books in it.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Only fools believed in happy endings.”
― Kristen Ciccarelli, Heartless Hunter

“It’s not about cruelty.” Gáspár has finally turned to face me. “It’s about power. Without power, all you have is anger and spite. Cruelty comes when you have the strength to turn your anger on someone else.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“We keep biting back. We survive, because sometimes that’s the most violent thing we can do to other people. We stay alive.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom