Heavy Crown Quotes

“There’s no pleasure quite like reading, is there? Sometimes it’s the only thing that eases my mind.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I'm a mafia daughter too, she says, I know how little power you have in your own life...until you rip it out of a man's hands.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Fire doesn’t always mean death and destruction. Sometimes it clears away the old and rotten brush so that new things can grow.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Revenge is for people who have only themselves to consider.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The face of a warrior princess... the body of an amazon... the spirit of a wild wolf... surely I can find that again in a girl whose father doesn't crush skulls and break spines for entertainment.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“That’s what I’m expecting when I pick up the heavy envelope with its expensive slate gray stationary.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“the night I met Yelena was a turning point. A singular event that altered the course of my life.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“There was always a monster in me. Yenin just let it out.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I don’t give a damn about traveling,” she says. “This is my home. You are my family. Not sometimes—ALWAYS.” I shake my head. “I can’t protect you. I couldn’t protect Papa or anyone else. This is a war, Greta. There’s no possibility of a truce anymore. We eradicate the Russians now, or they’ll pick us off one by one. One of us will destroy the other. It’s win or die.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Don’t you dare cry for him. It’s your fault he’s dead.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The weight of it. Of all of it. It’s heavy and it’s relentless.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Your mistakes aren’t your own,” Nero said. “They affect everyone. And that’s terrifying.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The thought of waking up to her every morning, seeing her every time I come home, makes me happier than I can express. I wouldn’t give a fuck if we were moving into a cardboard box if she was going to be there.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I feel a rush of warmth so strong it frightens me. I can’t believe that Sebastian remembers all these little things I tell him. I never expected anyone to get to know me like this. To care about my interests and preferences.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“This is a first for me, too,” he says, throwing a quick glance in my direction. “The first time I . . . the first time I’m falling in love with someone.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Whatever happens after this, Sebastian will be my first lover, now and always.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“What impresses me is his height. I’ve never seen a man who made me feel small. Even in my heels, Sebastian towers over me. I have to tilt up my chin to look in his face.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“It’s you and me now, Yelena. Thank you for saving my brother today. But I want you to know . . . your safety is more important to me than anyone’s. I love you more than anyone. I’ll love you and protect you and adore you all our lives. I’ll never stop.” “I’ll”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“a pair of filthy old sneakers are jumbled in the corner. Oddly, one sneaker is much dirtier than the other.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I close the card and slip it into its colored envelope. Then I seal it and write the address. I don’t really expect Adrian to respond. Sometimes you have to reach out. Even when you know you’re only reaching into empty air.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“. . we are who we are. You never wanted the crown, but it came to you. I never wanted to be a Bratva’s daughter, but I killed Rodion and I’d kill again if I had to. I want choice in my life . . . but I’m not afraid of the darker side of myself. I hated it when I thought I was split into two halves—good like my mother and evil like my father. Now I think . . . they’re both just me. And they always have been.” I thought something similar. I thought I was a good man until a switch flipped inside of me and the monster was unleashed. Now I wonder if Yelena is right, if she and I are simply a shade of gray. I wonder if we could be comfortable in a straight-edge life, law abiding and upstanding, never making use of that other part of ourselves.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“. we are who we are. You never wanted the crown, but it came to you. I never wanted to be a Bratva’s daughter, but I killed Rodion and I’d kill again if I had to. I want choice in my life . . . but I’m not afraid of the darker side of myself. I hated it when I thought I was split into two halves—good like my mother and evil like my father. Now I think . . . they’re both just me. And they always have been.” I thought something similar. I thought I was a good man until a switch flipped inside of me and the monster was unleashed.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“In our world, there’s always another enemy. Always another threat. Yenin is gone. But who will take his place?”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“My family’s house is going up in flames like a tinderbox. Everything is burning—the pictures of my great-grandparents in their dusty frames. The posters on my bedroom walls. My mother’s piano. I never could have let this happen if my father were still alive—it would have killed him. But like Yenin, I’m willing to lose something I love to get my revenge. I sacrificed a piece that had great value to me to lure him out of his car.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“He’s trying to make me lose my temper. Maybe because he doesn’t want to be used as bait against his father. Maybe he thinks I’m stupid enough to untie him so I can beat the shit out of him better. What he doesn’t realize is that all my wild emotion has been burned away. I’m finally taking my father’s advice—the last piece he gave me. Play the endgame like a machine. I’m a fucking android now. Nothing will stray me from my course. Rodion dies. Yenin dies. Adrian dies. There will be no loose ends this time. No forgiveness. No enemies left alive to seek their revenge on me and my family.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Yelena turned her back on us. She proved herself to be exactly what my father always said she was—a woman, with a woman’s weakness.” “You and your father have a man’s arrogance.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The survival of each of our families depends on destroying the people that the other loves. No amount of conversation can change that. And the more time I spend next to Yelena, the more I can’t bear to do what has to be done. I wish I ran away with her the day I met her. In a game of winners and losers, the only happy ending was not to play at all.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“We can’t leave Seb alone in this. You owe him, Callum, you know you do. And so do I. The night that brought us together ruined his life. He’s never blamed me. He’s never complained. And besides that, Cal, Alexei Yenin is a fucking psychopath—no offense, Yelena. He is coming after all of us. If we’re going to join World War II, let’s do it now and not after Pearl Harbor.” Callum frowns. “Don’t use the History Channel against me, Aida.” “CAL!”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I’m still wearing the tattered Converse, pajama pants, and a ripped Van Halen t-shirt. To make matters worse, my shoulder is bleeding again, and it’s soaking through the bandage, spotting the front of the shirt. “You know, those shoes saved my life once,” Aida says cryptically. “Or at least, one of them did . . .”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“As I look down on the baby, I feel the strangest rush of emotion. I never particularly wanted a child. I felt like I’d barely lived my own life yet. But the thought of having a baby like this, with soft dark curls like Sebastian’s, and maybe his autumn brown eyes, too . . . I didn’t know you could want something so suddenly and so hard.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown