Adversary to the Villain Quotes

“If Evie hadn’t already fallen in love with the man ten times over, she may have just done so again.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“You promised there was no world in existence in which you wouldn’t come for me. Did you mean it?” His eyes were boring into hers. Anger, frustration, and fear were all emotions she read there, along with tenderness, unfailing love, and devotion. “I did.” “Then find me in this next one. Would you?” She dragged his face down toward her and placed a desperate kiss to his lips, one born of all the pain in her he’d healed, all the parts he’d mended, how vital he was to her, like air or water. He was her life.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Evie had almost died in many different ways since her employment with The Villain began. Strangulation, poison, drowning, falling…the list went on. She could accept death by fire if she must. But dying at the hands of a weak man and his fragile ego? She fucking refused.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“When you smiled, it would, uh—” Gods, he was bloody bad at this. “It would make my chest ache. I could only attribute it to the acidity in my food. When I cut out oranges, I ascertained it was in fact because I was in love with you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“There is no world in existence,” Trystan whispered into her ear as he dragged them away from the burning stage, “where I do not come for you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Well, of course I want it. How can I expect to have a working heart without a small piece of it always wanting a parent’s love? But I’m an adult. I have my people. I don’t need to wish for anyone’s love when I’m freely given it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Evie always believed her imagination could take her to incredible places. Magical places where anything was possible and she could be anyone. But imagination was a double-edged sword”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“None of this has anything to do with how much I want you or love you or desperately need to be with you all the time. Thinking about you the moment I wake up, the moment I go to sleep. When I’m so sad I feel like I cannot stand it, I still want you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“I’ve never wanted anything,” Trystan rasped, kissing her in a slow show of affection, “more than I want you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“It was a mistake, in any circumstance, to make an adversary of The Villain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“I swear, all those in power do is distract you from the wrongs they’re committing until you forget.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“«Evie mi diceva sempre che piangere è il modo in cui il corpo dice addio al dolore».”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Destiny writes what it expects to happen, while Fate is what will naturally occur in the end.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Why do you say such morbid things?" Keeley gave her friend an exasperated smile as she stood as well.

"Because there is liberation in looking at what you fear and simple having a good laugh.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“But know that who you are and what you do are always choices you have. They cannot be taken from you, no matter how badly the powers that be might want it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“All right, now do me.” She scrunched her nose, ogling his forearms like a character from The Cunning Corset Society. “In what respect?” “Sage.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“A life without love is an empty one, Trystan.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“But dying at the hands of a weak man and his fragile ego? She fucking refused.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“If you never listen to me again, Clarissa, remember this: joy can be given by others, but it must live within a person for it to truly grow.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“You know,” he rumbled. “Say it.” The command was firm, calm, grounding her where she stood. “That no matter what I do, no matter where I go, whatever heinous acts I commit or pain I turn to humor, you will never care if I’m the worst person in the world.” Her heart pinched as his dark stare bore into hers. “You won’t leave.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“What? You want me to say I’m scared? Fine, I’m scared! I’m trying to be this new version of myself, and I don’t know how. I have dark magic and I have a destiny I never knew about, but I’m still who I’ve always been! I don’t know how to reconcile them, and I don’t know how to reconcile that a man I had to fight tooth and nail to acknowledge his own feelings hasn’t already given up on me.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“You came.” “There is no world in existence,” Trystan whispered into her ear as he dragged them away from the burning stage, “where I do not come for you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“But right now, they were merely Evie and Trystan. For as long as Fate allowed.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“You were the one who told me that we get to decide who we are. Not magic, not Fate or Destiny or anyone else. You and me. We decide.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“There you are, little tornado.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“So You’re being labeled the kingdom’s doom. Who cares? You’re a woman in possession of great power being torn down by some insecure men. I know you’re traumatized and all, but that doesn’t actually make you special. That happens all the time.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Beautiful,” Trystan murmured, glancing sidelong at her. “That’s what you’re seeing, Malcolm. Someone beautiful.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Her light eyes glanced down, and she appeared to collect herself before she looked back at him, this time in hapless wonder. Amusement shone through her when she said quietly, “You had me at ‘we’ll need you.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“I never would have survived as a teacher. The patience they must possess.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain

“Two months from now, Evie thought. Everything will change. And it will be our greatest victory…or our greatest loss.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Adversary to the Villain