A Dream So Wicked Quotes

“Very well.” Minka leaps out of Angela’s arms, shifting into her seelie form by the time she lands on her feet. She rises on two legs, smoothing out the ruffles on her black-and-white dress. “I’ll make tea. It’s going to be very, very good tea, so you better be finished with this private conversation by the time I return. Come, you can help me.” She says the last part to a wide-eyed Angela, who seems enthralled at having seen her shift. I suppress a grin. It seems Minka’s feline sass is invading her persona in seelie form too.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“I left my family to save Briony. I’m not sure what that makes me. A good man would have stood against my family long ago and never would have done what I did at Briony’s birthday party. An honorable man would have stuck with my family at all costs, holding promises of family and duty over matters of the heart. But as I’ve already surmised, I am neither good nor honorable. Nor do I have any intention to be on a grand scale. All I want is to be a better version of myself. The one Briony sees. The one she deems worthy of forgiveness, of love, and to stand at her side.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“It’s strange how a place that felt like a prison for most of my life now carries such bittersweet nostalgia.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“The story is over. It’s time to forget, my pretty nemesis.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“Within these walls, I’m content. But contentment isn’t the same as freedom.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“What a shame reality must color what was once a lovely fantasy.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“Now I know that goodbyes hurt whether they’re given or not, and the one that cuts the deepest in this moment is the farewell I didn’t get to say.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“You’re out of luck there, Thorne,” she says, voice soft. “I’ll never be done being angry at you. I’m sure you’ll enrage me a thousand times more after this. But that doesn’t lessen my love. I love you, Thorne. I love you in all my anger. All my rage. All my passion. I love you fiercely.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“... I just need you to know—no matter what happens—that you never have to earn anyone’s care. Not Monty’s. Not your family’s. Not mine. No one’s.You deserve to be cared about. You, my enemy. You, my friend. You, the girl who haunted my dreams. You are worthy as you are in every form.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“I was named for vengeance. My beautiful nemesis must lose everything I’ve already lost.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked

“Hope is something I’ve learned to smother, to shove aside in favor of sensibility when I’m really made for dreaming.”
― Tessonja Odette, A Dream So Wicked