A Touch of Malice Quotes

“We are all broken, Persophone. It's what we do with the pieces that matters.

- Hecate. A touch of Malice”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Grief means we loved fiercely…and if that is all anyone ever has to say about either one of us in the end, I think we lived our best life.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Oh, darling, but I have told you before—for you, I would destroy this world.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Having enemies is a universal truth. It means you have something worth fighting for.

- Hermes”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Fate does not make sense, that is why it is so easy to blame.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I am a Goddess of Life,” Persephone said. “A Queen of Death.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“But…he is the Lord of the Underworld.” “We’re all aware,” Hermes said. “Look at him—he’s the only goth in the room.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“We are all broken... It’s what we do with pieces that matter.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I only worry about what I can control”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I am not sure who you think I am,” she said. “But let me be clear—I am Persephone, future Queen of the Underworld, Lady of Your Fate—may you come to dread my presence.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Do not compare trauma”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“That is hope. The greatest enemy of man.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I have seen love – all forms and degrees – but there is something dear about this love – the kind you share. It is desperate and fierce and passionate. And perhaps it is because I know you, but it is my favourite kind of love to watch. It blossoms and blazes, challenges and teases, hurts and heals. There are no two souls better matched. Apart, you are light and dark, life and death, a beginning and an end. Together, you are a foundation that will weave an empire, unite a people, and weld worlds together. You are a cycle that never ends – eternal and infinite.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“You should have known I would find you once you took your clothes off. It is a sixth sense.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“We are all broken, Persephone. It’s what we do with the pieces that matters.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Sometimes, it is hard to explain our actions when they are guided by our hearts.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I love you.”

‘She’s said the words so often and meant them deeply, but this time, they brought tears to her eyes. Tonight, they hit differently. Tonight, she felt as though she understood love in a way she never had before – it was wild and free, passionate and desperate. It encompassed every emotion in its attempt to make sense of a world that challenged it.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“If you’re looking for someone to praise your every decision, turn to your worshipers. Friends tell you the truth.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Trust, darling, I will let no one – not king or god or mortal – stand in the way of making you my wife.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I will build temples in honor of our love, and I will worship you until the end of the world. There is nothing I wouldn’t sacrifice for you.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“War eliminates threats.”

“So does peace.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“You are my everything. My first love, my wife, the first and last Queen of the Underworld.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“You hold my heart in your hands, Persephone.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“There is always hope.”

“There is always hope. It is all we have.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

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‘This is power, she thought as her body flushed and fluttered with a chaotic tangle of emotion – the passion and pain of loving someone more than the air in her lungs and the glimmer of stars in the night sky.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“I never thought I’d thank the Fates for anything they gave me, but you – you were worth all of it.”

“All of what?”

“The suffering.”

“Gods and mortals always want what they can’t have.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“It is you now, you forever.”
― Scarlett St. Clair , A Touch of Malice

“Having enemies is a universal truth,” he said. “It means you have something worth fighting for.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“From the beginning, those who admired Hades had been deeply invested in his happiness—and the fact that she was part of that happiness made her chest blossom with pride.
He'd chosen her, and he would continue to choose her.
Even if the Fates unraveled our destiny, I would find a way back to you.
Those words filled her heart, made it beat—a truth no one could deny.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice

“Hades was the ultimate addiction. He was a glorious high, an intoxicating bliss she wanted all the time.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Malice