Jessica Wimp > Jessica's Quotes

“Sometimes there won’t be a right choice, just the best of several bad options.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Where will we go?"
"I hear hell is particularly nice at this time of year.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Ten years of shadows, but no longer. Light up the darkness, Majesty.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Dorian, we get to come back from this loss - from this darkness. We get to come back, and I came back for you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“I’m going to go back and stop your son from killing her.”
The queen’s face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she’d spent lying in a suspended state. “That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is nothing of equal value to me.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“The girl was dead. If her lifeless body had not confirmed it, then it would have been made clear by the horrible scream of the Fate who held her in his arms. The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century. The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“A tormented scream pierced the night like a blade. The sky bled, and darkness fell instead of stars, erasing lights across the Magnificent North.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I’m your monster, Evangeline.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“No one deserves to be put on a pedestal. They won’t climb down to save you, and if you’re looking up at them, you’re not looking ahead at what’s coming for you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

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

“It's easy to die for someone," I said, "but it is so much more valuable to live. I do not give you permission to fail if I fail.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“The ghost of that girl still lived inside me somewhere. She had what it took to survive, and I had what it took to live.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“So, mysterious snake man–” “Ascended above, give me a minute, demanding rot goddess.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“I am a daughter of no worlds, and all worlds. And I am not done yet.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“It is a privilege to do nothing, Max. So many people do not have that gift.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“No war can be fought with clean hands,” he said. “Not even the ones waged for the right reasons. Not even the ones you win.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Do not fear death, my daughter. We all walk with one foot in each world. There is beauty in impermanence. And what sad lives we would live, if we never loved anything we would lose.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“You are going to die. But do not fear death. Death is a door, and though none of us can follow you through it today, you will cross its threshold knowing that the mark you have left behind will be a worthy one. This is not an end.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Is it enough? Never.
But maybe it is something, to change a world one life at a time. It is something.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Perhaps we didn’t need gods to find our place in something larger. Perhaps it already existed in us.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“Perhaps our attachments are inconvenient," I said, quietly, "but what are we doing any of this for, if not for them?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“No one had told me this. That caring for others hurt so much.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“It was a gift, Max,” she murmured. “A gift to have known you. I hope that you have the most incredible, happy life. I hope you find a future worth forgetting your past. Make it worth it. Find joy. Do you understand?”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“I despise what he is doing to the world, to all of us. But I understand him. At times, that seems like cruelest part of this of all. We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“That is the bravest act in this world. To feel. I am often too afraid to do it myself.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“am a leader of a broken country and lover of an imperfect soul. And I will not let him die here. Neither of us will die here.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Mother of Death & Dawn

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic