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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“Truth means something different when it's given freely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“We are all someone's monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I know who I am without anyone there to tell me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“I imagine all wars look the same to those who die in them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“At your absolute best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. At your worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person.”
― Karen Salmansohn

“You don’t look like a monster.”
“I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

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

“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.

They would be irresistible.”
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

“Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

“If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.”
― Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

“She had always found villains more exciting than heroes. They had ambition, passion. They made the stories happen. Villains didn't fear death. No, they wrapped themselves in death like suits of armor! As she inhaled the school's graveyard smell, Agatha felt her blood rush. For like all villains, death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“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

“Villains. Stories are nothing without them. Heroes cannot rise to greatness without them. In the absence of an enemy, our beloved protagonists are left kicking rocks in the Shire or taking tea and biscuits in a mind-numbingly cheery Spare Oom. We love villains because they turn their aches into action, their bruises into battering rams. They push through niceties and against societal restraints to propel the story forward. Unlike our lovable protagonists, villains - for better or worse - stop at literally nothing to achieve their goals. It's why we secretly root for them, why we find ourselves hoping they make their grand escape, and it's why our shoulders sag with equal parts relief and disappointment when they are caught. After all, how can you not give it up to someone who works that damned hard for what they want?... Look into a villain's eyes long enough and we might find our shadow selves, our uncut what-ifs and unchecked ambitions, a blurry line if ever there was one.”
― Ameriie, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“Most heroes are simply villains who haven't revealed their true intention”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Dream

“I was a coward. I've been a coward. So have you. We've both got blood on our hands. We're not the heroes who saved the world, we're the villains who survived it. I've made my peace with that. You should, too, because guilt is a weight you'll never swim away from.”
― Dianna Hardy, Blood Shadow

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”
― Jim Butcher

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Heroes are forgettable. They try to save the world, but villains are the ones who change it.”
― Adam J. Brunner, Friday's: Bar for Supervillains

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come...”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”
― Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
― Mitch Albom