CaLee Beard > CaLee's Quotes

“If you thought that was your threshold of pleasure—imagine being worshipped by the real thing.”
― Kaylie Smith, Phantasma

“His father has beaten him to death here.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at these contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they’ll break themselves trying for what they’ll never achieve.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“No need for guards when you can convince people to collaborate in their own internment.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“But by choosing to protect their peace”
― Harper L. Woods, The Damned

“Kell froze. “I never told you it was a stone.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“I’m on an intergalactic game show”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“there is a time for grief”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire