All of Our Demise Quotes

“Footsteps thudded down the stairs, and the flickering figure of Hendry Lowe appeared outside Alistair’s prison bars.

“You’re too late,” Alistair told him. “I’ve long descended into madness.”

“It’s been fourteen hours.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“The Grieves had raised Gavin to die. The Lowes had raised Alistair to kill.
Both of them deserved a better story.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Heroes are just villains with worse survival instincts and moral superiority complexes.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“And no tale was ever heard of him again.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Killing is easy,” Alistair murmured. “It’s the afterward that’s harder.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“If I'm going to die either way, I'd rather be a casualty in a good story than a terrible one. And that's what I want for you, too. A good story.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Of course what happens to you matters. Because it matters to you. Because you feel something, right now. That's enough, isn't it? Doesn't that make it mean something?”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Gavin had once agonized over whether the real Alistair Lowe was more boy or monster, but now he understood that Alistair was both. And even though neither canceled the other out, he didn’t think that made Alistair beyond redemption.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“It was never your responsibility to save him.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Truth can be buried, but it is never destroyed.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“These trials were supposed to show the truth, but there was no truth to her family’s legacy—because they’d lied to everyone, but they’d lied to themselves most of all.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Have you ever felt like a third wheel at your own torture scene?”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“I’ve been polite all day, and it was awful.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“It was hard to wrap her head around the reality of what her own family had been willing to do for power. Harder still to think of herself as a casualty in that fight.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“He had never tasted a sweeter poison. Never so happily let himself drown.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“when he did kill Gavin, he didn’t care if Gavin died afraid or angry or even sorry. Not so long as he died impressed.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise

“Briony had come here ready to tell the truth about them. But the truth was messy and complicated, and she knew the press wouldn’t care about that. They wanted a splashy headline, a brutal story. Victim or victor. Hero or villain. Today, Briony Thorburn would show the world just how villainous her family really was.”
― Amanda Foody, All of Our Demise