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“Revenge is living well, without you.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“The Darkling just stared out into the waves. I considered shoving him over the railing. Sure, he was hundreds of years old, but could he swim?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost

“We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost

“There were some people you had to stay
away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then there were people you
wanted to stick with, the ones with silver tongues and golden touches. And then,
there were people you stood beside, because it meant you weren’t in their way”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.”
― Peter J. Tomasi

“Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shadow Throne

“Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile.

And I relaxed. I knew. My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d never got before upon meeting a man. When I’d had it from women, the upshot ranged from disappointment to attempted murder. Understand me, Professor James Moriarty was a hateful man, the most hateful, hateable, creature I have ever known, not excluding Sir Augustus and Kali’s Kitten and the Abominable Bloody Snow-Bastard and the Reverend Henry James Prince. He was something man-shaped that had crawled out from under a rock and moved into the manor house. But, at that moment, I was his, and I remain his forever. If I am remembered, it will be because I knew him. From that day on, he was my father, my commanding officer, my heathen idol, my fortune and terror and rapture.”
― Kim Newman, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

“We’re happier when the assholes are villains.”
― Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

“I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“We were all here to learn. He was the one who had a problem, not I. Perhaps it was time for fathers to teach their sons how to behave around young women. They were not born superior, no matter how society falsely conditioned them. We were all equals here.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula