The Demon King Quotes

“It was easy to blame one’s problems on someone else. It was easiest to blame them on everyone else. It took a bit more courage and a lot more strength to own up to your own decisions, your own mind, and climb out of history’s tired grooves and onto a fresh path.”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Demon King

“You could do one of two things. You could reveal your scars as angry and red, still smarting despite the separateness of life, the individuality of experience and time, and you could share that scar with all the honest world. Or you could reveal it for the wound of the past that it was. You could reveal it as something that is done and finished, and you could learn from that scar, treat it for the lesson it had the potential to be, and make certain not to repeat history’s mistakes.”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Demon King

“There was no such thing as an absence of dysfunction. There was no such thing as a perfect childhood, a spotless familial resume. Every single person on the planet was scarred by something. What made the difference – all the difference in the world – was what they chose to do once they’d been scarred.”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Demon King

“Dahlia was sure some wise person somewhere must have been quoted as saying that every person has a reason for doing the things they do. By that way of thinking, every criminal is there because of cause and effect. The violent alcoholic was an alcoholic because his father beat him. His father beat him because he was beaten as a child by a crazy mother. The mother who beat him was locked in a school closet for every wrong-doing during the school week and had become a manically anxious sufferer of claustrophobia. The teacher who locked her in a closet had lost her daughter when her daughter wandered off one day after being disciplined and was never seen from again. Every fault blames another, on and on through the generations until you were left with a caveman writing something hurtful on a cave wall in bison blood. The first abusive human. The root of all evil. The source of every wrong-doing the world would see in the countless years to come.”
― Heather Killough-Walden, The Demon King