The Damned Quotes

“What I am has no bearing on who I become.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“But never is a long time, when you have eternity to consider.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“Real love may be a choice, but I plan to choose someone who steals the breath from my body and haunts my very dreams. That is the only kind of love worth having.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“She walks in beauty like the night...”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“Because of everything that happened, I've learned to love myself more," she said. And is that not the best gift any trial in life can give you? The power to love yourself today better than you did the day before.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“Men were the worst kid of heroes. Riddled with flaws they refused to see.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“What you are has no bearing on who you become, Sebastien. Man or demon, that is entirely up to you. It is never too late to chase the better version of yourself.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“I have loved you in both my lives, I will love you in the rest to come.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“There is a moment that forever marks your life as before and after.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“One must die so the other may live.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“Then why have you given me the choice, against this inclination?” “Because I should not make your story about me.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“A true hero would find a way back to her. Would seek a path of redemption for his lost soul. A chance to stand once more in the light.

There is no such path. And I am no one's hero. So I choose the way of destruction.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“I want to love and hope and die with all the limitation that make such a life worth of living.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“The gentleman offered her a fond smile. "I apologize, mademoiselle, but we are closing our doors soon. What you ask is simply impossible."

"Improbably perhaps. But not impossible. I will wait outside all night if need be. It is a sad state of affairs when a girl must resort to threats in order to be given the attention she is due."

She folded her ungloved hands in her lap. "If I'm outside all night, I hope it weighs on your conscience."

"Rather uncompromising of you, mademoiselle," he said.

"Hmmmm. Rather like looking in the mirror, I'd wager.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“As you wish."

Pippa hesitated. "I wish I believed you would do as I asked."

"If wishes were fairies.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“I learned something in the time I lost sight of my memories,' Celine said. 'I should not be looking to others to uncover my truths, no matter how dark or twisted they may be. I need only look inside myself. Everything I need is here.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“It always struck her as odd how people believed exciting things were bound to happen at parties... Odette thought the most exciting space was the one within her own mind.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned

“Another moment. And another. My life is reduced to nothing but these stolen moments.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Damned