One for All Quotes

“We are not the ones who are written into history. We are the ones who ensure history exists to be written.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“Now, whenever I had a good day, people were quick to assume I felt better. It was hard enough living with the knowledge that if I felt healthy, it didn’t mean the next day would be the same. Being reminded of that fact by others was a painfully close second.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“We’re Musketeers. We are sisters in arms. We don’t let each other fall, and we never will.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“We have their reputation, their hearts, their lives in the palms of our hands … on the edges of our swords.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“There are other ways to fight for someone, Mademoiselle, than merely picking up a sword.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“And it is hard, so very hard when both heroes and villains want similar things—think they want similar things. Each and every man is a hero to himself.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“We can keep you from falling if you’re too dizzy. We can help you regain your balance. We can even offer you a hand to pull you out of the water. But if you don’t accept it, if you let yourself fall even farther in … then saving you from drowning? That’s beyond any of our abilities.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“For someone who believes everyone questions her capabilities, you do a lot of questioning yourself.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“And prettier, too. Not in the way men think is pretty, I suppose, but the way we think is pretty—”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“It’s partnership. It’s someone who can help you become a better version of yourself, both when you’re together and when you’re apart. It is someone who recognizes your strengths and celebrates them.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“Sick girls didn’t have suitors. Sick girls had to fight for what they could get. But this kind of fighting was infinitely harder than fighting with a sword.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“Words were words were words. Words were doctors shrinking away from my mother in corridors. Words were childhood promises of everlasting friendship. Aria couldn’t promise me anything. Being sick meant, at any moment, the people I cared about could decide I wasn’t worth the trouble I put them through.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“They may not be the Musketeers I’d imagined. But they were better, because they were mine. And I knew, as I looked at them and saw the cold steely resolve inside me mirrored in their eyes, that I was theirs.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“You will be a siren. A gladiator. Beauty that lures evil to its side before stabbing it through the heart.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“Cities and bodies weren’t that different, truly. Streets like blood veins. Parks like organs. The royal palace like a beating heart.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All

“Sometimes it’s as if I’m over it; I won’t think of it for weeks. But other times … if a person’s behind me, and I can’t see where the touch is coming from, it’s like I’m frozen. I’m back to that one moment. That one memory. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been. Everyone else continuing on, time continuing on, but I’m frozen.”
― Lillie Lainoff, One for All