💬 Quotes

"We are all monsters to someone. The trick is to be a monster that protects rather than destroys."

"The past is a ghost that doesn't just haunt you; it sits at your table, eats your food, and demands you acknowledge its existence."

"There are no heroes in the land of the Fae. Only those who survive long enough to become the villains of someone else's story."

"I’d spent my life trying to be perfect, only to discover that perfection is just a mask worn by those too afraid to show their scars."

"Hope is the most dangerous weapon of all. It makes you reckless. It makes you stay when you should run."

"To love something is to give it the power to destroy you, and in this world, destruction is the only currency that never devalues."

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money."

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

"People who are dead are not dead; they’re just living in my head."

"People are more easily seduced by the prospect of pleasure than by the reality of it."

"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they talk. They want you to know *all* about it. They want the satisfaction of the kill. And that's when you can get him."

"Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!"

"There are times when you have to do what's right, even if it breaks all the rules."

"Being pretty is just a state of mind, but being beautiful is a state of grace."

"The bubbly is the best part of being a Pretty, but the emptiness is the price you pay for it."

"You aren't you anymore. You're just a version of yourself that everyone else wants to see."

"It’s not enough to be pretty. You have to be perfect, or else they’ll find the crack in your porcelain skin."

"Every secret is a weight, and I've been carrying a mountain for a long time."

"We were made to be beautiful, not to be human. That was the mistake."

"The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why. I wish they did. God knows, I have so many questions."