💬 Quotes

"The gods are not the ones who determine our fates. We are. We make our own choices, and we live with them."

"The world has ended. It's been burnt to a crisp. And we're the only ones who can fix it, or so they say."

"Hope is a dangerous thing. It can be the one thing that keeps you going, or the one thing that crushes you when it’s gone."

"They don't care about us. We're just pawns in their sick little game."

"You can't trust anyone. Not even yourself, not when your memories have been tampered with."

"We’ve been through hell, and we’ve survived. But surviving isn't the same as living."

"If you ain't scared, you ain't human."

"The world is in ruins. The sun is a vengeful eye. And we’re the ones who have to survive it."

"WICKED is good. But it’s a twisted kind of good, and it’s being done in a way that makes me want to scream."

"They were pawns in a game they didn’t understand, being moved across a board by people who didn't care if they lived or died."

"Hope is a dangerous thing. It can be the one thing that keeps you going, or the one thing that crushes you when it’s gone."

"We’ve been lied to every step of the way. Maybe the only truth we have left is the fact that we’re still breathing."

"Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured."

"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly."

"The master scolded him, but the master's eyes were not on him; they were on the horizon. He did not see the boy; he saw a crop."

"There is a hatred of the eyes, and of the nose, and of the skin, of the lips, and of the hair, and of the hands, and of the feet, and of the whole body."

"It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question."

"I talked about how I did not plant the marigold seeds too deeply, how it was my fault they did not grow. I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year."

"Along with many others, they had been taught that it was all for their own good, and they had believed it. They had believed it so thoroughly that they had eventually come to believe that it was, indeed, for their own good."

"Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl treasured."