Girls of Fate and Fury Quotes

“Storytelling is a wonderful kind of magic, don’t you think? It is how we keep people alive in our hearts long after they are gone.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts.... Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“But my love, that isn't all you are. Your blood and upbringing aren't everything. You make your own power. You are your own strength.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“Even demons are no match for Paper Girls with fire in their hearts.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“When a place holds power over you, it looms large. And once that power is stripped away, it appears how it really is. Just a room, or a courtyard, or a house, or a palace. Walls and floorboards and gates and archways. Building blocks. Pieces of a place, but not the heart of them.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“Like faith or hope, love isn't a substance we can take in our hands and hold out to someone and say 'look, I told you it was real.' It exists, purely within our own hearts. If anything, that makes it all the more powerful. If we could measure it, set it out on a platter for weighing, it make so many things easier.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“It is easy to spot a coward. Shall I teach you how? A coward is the one who uses force when a gentler hand would be more effective. He is the one who lets his nation suffer while he bathes in their blood. The one who hides within walls while sending others to die for him. Who dresses in armor and masks, thinking it will intimidate his enemies when it only proves how fearful he really is.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“Why was it truth hurt more than lies? She supposed there was at least comfort in lies. Truth forced you to stare at yourself in the mirror, bare in every sense of the word, and acknowledge the person looking back at you as your own doing. Truth always caught you in the end, and it was merciless.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“...souls are messy, imperfect things. Even the most beautiful of them have the capacity to be cruel, uncompromising, and unforgiving. Fair and merciful. Hearts are all of these things and more. And no matter how complex, how contradictory they might be, that doesn't mean they do not deserve love, or forgiveness, or a second chance.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“You don’t know me, Lei‑zhi,” he sneers. “You’re not as clever as you think. None of your kind are. No matter how hard you fight, it will be in vain. Paper can never triumph over Steel and Moon—you are too easily broken. You are weak, and we... I am strong. You will see. I will burn all your hopes and dreams to ashes, Lei‑zhi—along with everything you so proudly, foolishly love.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“They can take and steal and break all they want, but there is one thing they have no control over. Our emotions. Our feelings. Our thoughts.… Our minds and hearts are our own. That is our power, Nine. Never forget it.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“Hearts are all of these things, and more. And no matter how complex, how contradictory they might be, that doesn’t mean they do not deserve love, or forgiveness. Or a second chance.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“If you carry the full weight of your responsibilities all the time, even the strongest person would be crushed.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“When a place holds power over you, it looms large, and once that power is stripped away it appears how it really is.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“If you carry the full weight of your responsibillities all the time, even the strongest person would be crushed.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“How fitting that a pathway the King thought himself so clever for creating—in a place where Wren and Lei had fallen in love, right under his nose—would lead to his downfall.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“It strikes me that now Wren and I are truly on our own. Yet it feels right in a way. We came to the palace alone, only to find each other. Now, we will destroy it on our own. The two of us. Together. The whole way.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“A frustrated growl escapes my throat. “Your father made you believe you’re only special because of your magic. Your whole sense of worth has been built on the fact you’re the last remaining Xia and Ketai saved you for this one purpose. But, my love—that isn’t all you are. Your blood and upbringing aren’t everything. You make your own power, Wren. You are your own strength. You faced the King a hundred times alone when we were Paper Girls. Those nights took far more bravery than any of this. We can face him one more time.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“The girls gasp, but I only watch in horrified silence as the dog-woman—Mistress of the Night Houses, ally to the Hannos, protector of Kenzo and Lill, my friend—is lifted off her feet, Commander Razib’s half moon blade buried so deep in her torso its hooked tip sticks from her back. She grips the blood-slick handle where it’s embedded between her breasts with both hands, her face ashen. A crimson line trails from one corner of her mouth. She doesn’t cry out or whimper—she won’t give the Commander the satisfaction. Instead, with what must be a supernova-level of effort, she looks to me. “Go to Kenzo,” she breathes. Then her head slumps.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“Though she looks slightly stunned, she gives me her trademark smile: small, grim, determined. “I’m fine,” she says. Just as, from behind her, a pair of talons grasp her head— And twist. The crack shoots through the room. There is no blood. No gore. Only an abrupt dimming of light in those astute, tawny eyes, and the off-kilter tilt of Chenna’s lovely head on her broken neck. Blood pumps in my ears as I lift my gaze to meet Madam Himura’s piercing yellow eyes. She’s incensed, her feathers sticking on end. She drops Chenna unceremoniously—and comes for me.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury

“If you carry the full weight ofyour responsibilities all the time, even the strongest person would be crushed.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury