Bad Lands Quotes

“People considered “breaking” a sign of weakness. I disagreed. Bending meant you could be molded and shaped into something else. I may be full of dents, scars, and trauma, but whatever they did to me, they could not bend and form me into their idea. They turned me rigid. Titanium. I broke; I did not bend. I snapped; I did not bow. They did not twist and cast me into something different. My broken pieces could be forged together. Made stronger.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“Before you, nothing I ate had any taste.” His mouth almost grazed mine. “All I could smell was death. Nothing but killing made me feel anything. Then you walked into my life.” His hand slid under my jaw. “And I don’t see just gray. I feel, smell, taste, and want to fuck you in every color.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“Women have always had to apologize or bend to their will. We were punished for their weak character. In doing so, we helped them keep us down like pitiful creatures they claimed us to be. When in truth, we were the dragons.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“For everyone calling me names, I bathe in your curses… with Jason Momoa.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“He was the one who had Caden and me study the Roman Games and learn how the ruler could easily dupe the masses, taking their minds off their horrendous lives by giving them a spectacle.
He understood how simple it was to get the people focused on the superficial while taking more and more from them. Getting them to fight amongst themselves and not their true enemy. Give them more show, and they'll eat it up, asking for more, while you are boldly torturing, murdering and starving them.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“Find a way, carve a spot somewhere in yourself you can retreat. Don't let them have any of your power. We'll get through this."
A sad smile hinted on her lips. "Luv, I'm a whore. Men had been degrading and demeaning me since, well, even when I was married. I have a whole world I can retreat to.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“The pain and abuse she had to live through, years of boxing it up so she could keep going on because so many men are insecure assholes who think by "putting a woman in her place", they are somehow "real" men when all they are is weak and pathetic.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“Right," Warwick growled, getting into Killian's face. "I haven't had time to thank you for drugging and almost killing my mate.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“With or without the magic, every man here is willing to fight for you, stand next to you, die for you. And it's not that bitch's power that makes us bend the knee. It's all you".”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“The wolf isn't leashed... and yet it still runs back to you.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“I stood my ground, fighting the impulse to drop to my knees and beg under the wrath wrapping around me. Most would. But with or without my powers, I would bow to no man.
Ever again.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands

“Warwick grabbed the gun with his free hand, flipping it and pointing it at Scorpion, ready to pull the trigger. “No!” I bellowed, shoving myself in front of Scorpion, the barrel of the gun hitting the middle of my chest.”
― Stacey Marie Brown, Bad Lands