The Poison Daughter Quotes

“I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The only thing more dangerous than a man with a bruised ego is a woman with a score to settle.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“In the absence of a conscience, men need something to fear. I’ve made myself their monster.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“To err is human. To avenge is Divine.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Born to be a queen. Cursed to wrangle the egos of men.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“All these years and you still haven’t learned. You’ve never stopped trying to break me. But I do not break. I am the breaker.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I don’t think I’m better than you,” I say. “I think we’ve been speaking your language my entire life and neither of you have bothered to learn mine. I’ve been forcing myself into a family system that doesn’t fit me”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Violence came for me the way it does for all women. It hunted me”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“One moment, he’s taunting me. The next, he’s slitting a man’s throat for touching me.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The Carrenwells are the reason Holly is gone—the reason my parents lost their daughter and heir. She was always the responsible one—the one with holy fire to protect the fort.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Even in a glamour”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“We are pleased to announce that we’ve agreed to a preliminary marriage contract between their son and our youngest daughter”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“My husband chuckles. The sound is bitter. “Oh”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Spite is usually the only motivation I require.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I want it to be real, if only for now.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“some liminal place”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The doubt it casts is a knife plunged in my gut that will twist any time I doubt him again. The suspicion never leaves, and he knows it. He will tie me up in knots and I will let him. Not because I don’t know better, but because I do, and I still can’t let go of the possibility that it might be different this time.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“The surprise on their faces is so typical. Men are always shocked when they meet resistance to their plans. Comfort has made them all complacent. I have no such luxury. I was very young when I learned not to expect any softness from life. Violence came for me the way it does for all women. It hunted me”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“the only silver mask shimmering in a sea of matte black.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“who did this to you?”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“You can see me.” His smile softens the sharp lines of his face. “I can see you.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“remind the stone—like it’s a living thing—that your will must be stronger than what seems possible.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“in this”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“I hate that I could track her by scent alone—hate that I can smell the hint of my laundry soap mixed in with her floral perfume. Mostly”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Though all of us who nearly died in the Drained attack ten years ago couldn’t see color for a time”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“love is not letting the person you care for be caught with their guard down. Love is someone who helps you put your armor on”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Since the attack ten years ago”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“It’s terrifying to be understood. He knows what it means to turn a grave into a home—to live inside this hollow like a hermit—to fumble in the dark, but still crawl out the other side of the pit and rise to demand blood for your blood. I’m afraid of the way he understands the empty places in me like halls he’s been haunting for years instead of weeks.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“No matter how much I’ve hardened myself against her comfort, it doesn’t get any easier. It’s her trick, giving me a glimpse of her potential. I’ve always understood the impulse of wanting a mother, but when I’ve felt it, I’ve always imagined some alchemy of generic soft hands and tight hugs and the scent of rosebushes. What I want is the idea of a mother, not the woman standing beside me.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

“Who did that to you?” he asks.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter