Apprentice to the Villain Quotes

“Sometimes family isn’t a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes”—Evie smiled—“the people who love you most in your life are the ones who choose you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“She was afraid, but she knew now: fear usually meant you were standing on the edge of something new, something self-altering, something potentially good. Fear was not something she would shy away from ever again.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“It had occurred to her many times over that "impossible" was merely a word people used to describe limitations they wished for you to adhere to, so you wouldn't upset the balance.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“There was no emotion in his voice when he said, “Does your mind live in the gutter?” She shook her head, tapping a finger against her lips. “No, but it rents there on occasion.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“She breathed, “It’s so beautiful.” Her boss had been silent beside her, but now he replied hoarsely, still gripping her hand, “Yes, it is.” And when she turned, he was looking at her.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“The Villain didn’t miss light. He missed color.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“I do not lack equilibrium,” she argued. “The ground merely lacks the courtesy of letting me know when it is coming closer.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“He would follow her off a cliff without question. And Evie knew she was in love with him. Right then, right there.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Because we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Of all the foolish, horrific things he'd ever accomplished, falling in love with a woman he so completely didn't deserve made the top of his list. But he did love her. It wasn't a question or eve a sudden realization. He'd known, hadn't he? It was like a tether was between them, wrapped directly around his heart, that she had the power to push and pull at her leisure. She was woven into his being; in the blink of his eyes, in the crinkle of his smile, in his rusty unused laughter, she was there. From the moment he'd met her, he thought of her like the sun. Bright and vibrant, untouchable. But he was wrong. She wasn't light; she was color. Every single one, dancing otherworldly and bright over his unworthy eyes. She was the explosion of the vivid gleams and glows of the world around him, like a constant rainbow, shining not after the rain but during. She was everything he never deserved but longed for anyways.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“She’s in big trouble,” Evie said grumpily.

“Go easy on her—she’s young,” The Villain said diplomatically.

Evie turned toward him, planting her hands on her hips, a look of mock outrage on her face. “Aren’t you supposed to be evil?”

“Encouraging children to neglect their education fits under that bracket, does it not?”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“You laughed.”

“I know,” Trystan said, shaking his head, hoping to knock the building ache out of it.

“You’re fucked”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“I think I am very sad. But I won’t be forever.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“He wished to find Sage. He wished to tell her he was sorry. He wished to be better about revealing how he felt, bit by bit. And perhaps, most importantly—he wished to have a godsforsaken tea party with her little sister, Lyssa.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“But she had one powerful and far more ridiculous tool in her arsenal. Spite.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Losing someone didn’t mean the end; it merely meant the beginning of the life you’d lead without them, the beginning of letting in the people you’d gain in their stead.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“There is nothing written in any text, gods-created or not, that says we cannot be more than one thing. You’ve been told for a very long time that you are made for destruction, but there is nothing that says you cannot be more. You can be capable of bad and do good. You can do good things and still be bad. Nothing is set in stone, and if it helps, I’ll stand by you no matter who you choose to be.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“I can say with the utmost assurance”—his eyes raked over her, and she stopped breathing—“when given the privilege, I have no issue performing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“demonize what they cannot understand. It isn’t our job to educate them, just to live the way we’re meant to with the knowledge that being called a monster does not make you one.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“She took each moment of her life with a natural good humor, no matter how painful, no matter how tragic. She trekked on with nothing but her will. No magic to protect her. Just faith and optimism and belief in her survival.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“When one spent their entire life feeling weak, it was quite thrilling to be viewed as a threat”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Emotions didn’t always know right or nuance; they just knew to be hurt when someone caused pain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“This woman was unraveling him like a bloody ball of yarn.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“The destiny creature is searching for any ounce of goodness worth saving," Raphael called down to her. "It will test his resolve, his soul - and judging by his screams, he will not be saved. The creature will consume him and his soul. What can you possibly do?"

She shrugged against the panic trying to consume her and reached Trystan in three long strides, hovering her hand over his. She closed her fingers around destiny and its overwhelming light as she said with a sureness that was absolutely faked.

"I'll give him mine.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“It is fiction for a reason, you menace. By the gods, what if you carried out every impossible act you read about?” It was a rhetorical question, but she couldn’t resist the urge to slip into the normal ease of their cadence, like no time had passed. “Oh, I suppose that I would need to become very, um—flexible.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“You think I do not care? As if thoughts of you and your well-being don’t plague me daily. Nightly. Every second we are apart! I watched you die! I thought I’d never see you again! I have never known such darkness, and I never wish to again. If you think that makes me overbearing, so be it. But do not ever claim I do not care about you. You are wiser than that, Evie. Do not be a fucking fool.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“we are always expected to plaster a grin on our faces even when we don’t wish to. I used to do it so often, I stopped being able to tell when I was smiling for me or for someone else. So now, I don’t smile unless I’m one hundred percent sure it’s something I want to do, not something someone else wants me to do.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“Move on, her mind begged her. Nope, her heart said with a wild laugh.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“A tragic inheritance- seeing your mother’s flaws pop up in yourself and having the awareness to know it but no idea how to stop it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain

“She’d agreed to work for The Villain to escape her chaotic life, to have order. Instead, she had been handed a healer who dressed in frilly pinks, a boss’s assistant who was the human version of a cannonball, and a filthy dragon trainer who smiled so brightly at her it burned her corneas.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Apprentice to the Villain