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#1

“He knows I am not the monster he wanted. I am the one he made.”
― Amelia Hutchins, Ruins of Chaos

tags: villain

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#2

“But a villain who despairs of his villainy has not become a hero. A hero is something positive, not just the absence of evil.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

tags: change, evil, hero, villain

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#3

“You look like Snow White killed the queen and stole the mirror.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

tags: queen, snow, villain, white

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#4

“I just don’t want you to ever not see me. I know so many people see me as nothing more than a tool for pain. But the other side of the coin is when people make excuses for everything I do. They blame it on a tragic past. On what I am. As though WHO you are is defined by WHAT you are.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

tags: evil, monster, stereotypeypes, villain, villains

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#5

“I think villains are not those who are blinded by their judgment and believe the acts of cruelty are justice. Those are just victims to darkness. True villains are fully rational – the ones who commit cruelty for the sake of it.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

tags: cruel, cruelty, darkness, evil, rational, victim, villain, villainy

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#6

“They often say an idea is not as important as its execution, and that the judgment comes according to perspectives. I confess this be the truth of life. Well then, I should also calculate, that if I have an utterly cruel idea but execute it properly, people will judge me as a saviour, while if a heroic person like you fulfills his idea with the utmost sincerity, he shall be accused of villainy since he goes on extremes just to bring his idealistic vision to life. Aye, amigo – sincerity is rarely rewarded. Foxiness and hypocrisy win the hearts of the multitude, especially if one craftily hides their true intentions and desires with an innocent, hearty smile.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

tags: cruel, hero, heroism, hypocrisy, judge, judgment, kind, perspective, villain, villainy

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#7

“There was nothing that fascinated the public quite like a beautiful man with an ugly soul.”
― Nenia Campbell

tags: beauty, cruelty, dangerous-men, evil, handsome-men, ugliness, villain

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#8

“Richard III's monologue is not unlike Adolf Hitler's speech to his General Staff on 23 August 1939, in its utter lack of self-deception. The lack of self-deception is striking because most of us invent plausible reasons for doing something we know is wrong. Milton describes such rationalization in Paradise Lost in Eve, both before she eats the fruit of the forbidden tree and afterwards, when she justifies inducing Adam to eat:
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
I could endure, without him live no life.
(Pl, IX. 832-33)
Eve makes this profession of love for Adam at the moment when she is, in effect, planning to kill him.”
― W.H. Auden, Lectures on Shakespeare

tags: rationalization, villain

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#9

“In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth.”
― T.J. Kirk

tags: evil, society, truth, villain, villains-and-heroes

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#10

“It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: hero, villain

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#11

“These minor, natural flaws did not explain why hers was but the deceptive beauty of the poisoned apple. It was not merely that she was shallow, a creature of simple malice: within her tiny skull a storm raged, hectic, vicious and vengeful. The depths of her character were murky and she herself, had she made the attempt, would struggle to rationalise her behaviour. In morals she was well-versed, for they had been imparted to her through fables as a young child, yet she could find no trace of villainy in her own actions. In her skewed world-view she was set apart.”
― R.D. Shanks, A Reverie of Brothers

tags: evil, morals, princess, villain

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#12

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

tags: katsa, monster

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#13

“I’ve been nothing but kind to you. I’m not some sort of monster.”
“No, you’re the man who sits idly by, congratulating yourself on your decency, while the monster eats his fill. At least a monster has teeth and a spine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

tags: doing-nothing, inej-ghafa, monster

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#14

“My mother always told me
No monster lived beneath my bed,
But she had failed to warn me
It laid on top of it instead.”
― Erin Hanson

tags: monster, self

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#15

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

tags: beauty, delusion, goodness, lies, self-deception, wisdom

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#16

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

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#17

“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami

tags: agenda, bad-influence, compulsive-liar, controlling, craftsman, deception, destruction, dishonest, influence, lies, manipulation, media, mislead, slander, speak, true

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#18

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

tags: lies, paraphrased

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#19

“Every angel is terrifying.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

tags: angels, elegy, poetry

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#20

“I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, couple, date, dating, disguise, facade, fall-in-love, fool, foolish, games, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, look, looking, love, love-games, love-quotes, lover, mask, one, play, player, quotes, relationships, search, seek, seeking, soulmate, together, trick, trickster, true, truth, wild

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#21

“He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: charm, fairy, sue-bridehead, trickster, unrequited-love

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#22

“Learn tricks from others, Become a trickster”
― Matt Thomas

tags: become, learn, others, tricks, trickster

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#23

“A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

tags: cheating, con-artist, deceiving, false, falsehood, liar, liars, lie, lies, trickster

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#24

“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
― Harold Pinter, Old Times

tags: false, falsehood, memory, recollection, truth

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#25

“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: achiever, attention, attitude, believe-in-yourself, character, confiding-in-yourself, estimation, eye-cany, eye-service, fake, false, ignorance, impress, impression, journey, michael-bassey-johnson, notice, pretence, pretending, pride, real, self-realization, show-off, the-real-man, what-you-are

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#26

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#27

“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

tags: heroes, humans, monsters, villains

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#28

“All Eli had to do was smile. All Victor had to do was lie. Both proved frighteningly effective.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

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#29

“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it's not the truth and sometimes I don't know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don't believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.”
― Lydia Davis, Break It Down

tags: deceiving, deception, lie, lying, truth

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#30

“Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

tags: belief, believing, deceiving, magic, seeing, sight, truth

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