Dark and Deepest Red Quotes

“I would find a way to make sure we never had to destroy something of ourselves just to stop other people from taking it. - Rosella”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,” he says. “Look at this body. My body. Or stop looking. Deny it, and deny me.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to wear iron heels, or a lovely, golden-haired girl in slippers of glass. This had been about a fever, a nightmare, a dance made into a curse.
It was about women turning their own fears into their sharpest blades.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“This is a city where the story they choose to believe about you depends on how well they think of you, and that story can shift as suddenly as the wink of those stars.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“I had learned, from a girl with rage-lit eyes and a blue dress, to grasp the blade the world held to me, and hold it myself.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“They say there are as many points of light in the sky as fish in the sea.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“Now, to save Tante and herself, she must deny her mother and her father, the dead in the ground, her own blood and her aunt's. - Lala”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“My story was not a fairy tale of a cruel-hearted girl whose shoes danced her to death, or a kindhearted one who threw her red shoes into the river. This was not a story about a wicked queen made to wear iron heels, or a lovely, golden-haired girl in slippers of glass. This had been about a fever, a nightmare, a dance made into a curse. It was about women turning their own fears into their sharpest blades.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“I have been shamed out of the same church that shuns Lala from its pews (as modern of a city as Strasbourg is, it has, as every city does, those who would rather not see a girl of color and her trans husband beneath its sacred stone arches).”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“You can’t go where you want to go without knowing where you’ve been.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“Did you not hear your own words? We are your legion of demons.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“We are more than what we've survived”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“History, no matter who writes it, cannot hide the blood on its hands. But neither can it hide those who lived it.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“Exotic. The word such men use when they want to make dark-eyed women into their mistresses, or rare pale deer into their pets. A word that carries both their thrill and the sense that they are entitled to all that interests them.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“The riddle comes to her, one that would be at home amid her father's garude lava.
How can a witch who is not a witch become one yet remain not one?
And with it, the answer.
If angels could be counted as demons, so could anyone.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red