We Set the Dark on Fire Quotes

“In a battle between two men trying to control her, she'd chosen herself.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Maybe this was trust ... Giving someone the power to ruin you, betting your life on the belief that they wouldn't.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“The bad stuff will be there ... If we want to fight it, we have to find joy where we can. We have to find beauty. We have to take our moments to be happy. Because the joy is what keeps us strong and reminds us we have something to fight for.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“You have a big heart, a strong mind, and you will find a way to make a life you love. No matter how different it is from the one you left.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“On the outside, she was frozen, but inside her, whole cities were being razed to the ground. Explosions were shaking the walls of her stomach. People were screaming in her throat.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“It's a viper's nest, child. I'll not deny it. See that you have the strongest venom.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Think about all the crimes your precious government condones, not just the ones they punish. Then you can talk to me about who the real criminals are. If we're not all free, none of us are free. You remember that.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“You were a criminal the moment you were born, and surviving every day has multiplied those crimes a hundred times.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“A hundred shades of a girl”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Freedom has a price. People who want easy and pretty stay in their cages.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia , We Set the Dark on Fire

“If we're not all free, none of us are free.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Dani's father always told her that secrets made her strong. Her maestras had told her restraint made her strong. But Dani knew now that to crack open what you thought you knew, to allow it to scar with truth, that was what made you truly strong.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“But I want to live in a world where love doesn't mean fear. Where we can survive without forgetting who we are”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“I just need to get out of here. I'm doing what I have to do to survive. I'm not signing up to set things on fire.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Mateo thought she was powerless. That he could reduce her to a trembling victim with some harsh words and the scent of his breath on her face. But she wasn't powerless. And if she played her cards right, she would never have to be again.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Mama Garcia thought she should be able to tell. Like they all had scarlet marks on their foreheads to brand them. Like they were so decidedly other that even a glance at one would reveal them for what they truly were.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Kissing was a kingdom all its own, with a million secret places to be explored”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“The past may comfort us, she said to the fire. But it cannot feed us”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Her restraint was her strength”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Even still, the oratory looked hopeful inside-hundreds of tiny candle flames, standing against the night. In this corner of the world, if nowhere else, light was winning.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“If we’re not all free,” she said, holding out a palm, like she’d seen the protesters do in their chains, “none of us are free.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“So strange, Dani thought. That the world can still be beautiful, even in the midst of all this.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“But even with her eyes closed, Carmen’s curves pulled on the tide of her blush like a honey moon.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“You wouldn’t mind?” she asked instead.
“Not a bit,” said Jasmín, a hint of that carefree, midnight smile on her lips.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“Dani slid into her lies like a second skin. It was part of survival.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“The way you slip into a lie like it’s a whole new person. You’re a hundred shades of a girl. You hold those shadows and bring them to life when you need them, and they’re flawless. Look how far you’ve risen, how many people you’ve fooled.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“You must have a pretty low bar for friendship. What does she know about you? And I mean the real you? What does anyone? This world has made it so you can never have a friend, Dani; doesn’t that bother you? Don’t you hate them for it?”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“...and Dani drew the persona that had gotten her through five years in this place around her like a shawl. She was calm, collected, in control. Her restraint was her strength.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“It’s so easy to join up, so easy to forget the harm being done every day. Even when you’ve seen it firsthand.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire

“In a battle between two men trying to control her, she’d chosen herself.”
― Tehlor Kay Mejia, We Set the Dark on Fire