Blood Heir Quotes

“But perhaps all monsters were heroes in their own eyes.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“You can achieve everything in this world, but if it’s for someone else, it’s pointless. Live for yourself.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“In the face of fear, one could choose to run, or to rise.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“I never meant to hurt anyone.

Perhaps monsters never meant to hurt others, either. Perhaps monsters didn't even know they were monsters.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“I suppose we are all heroes in our own eyes, and monsters in the eyes of those who are different.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Choices were for those with privilege and power. When you had none, all you could do was survive.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Only loss can teach us the true worth of things.” Linn’s clothes rustled as she knelt before Ana and grasped her hands. “There is nothing we can do but go on, one day at a time. We live in their memory, taking the breaths they cannot draw again, catching the warmth of the sunlight that they were meant to feel.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“This world was neither just nor kind nor good, and you chose to keep fighting or to surrender.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“But, in this world, life is a masquerade. Everyone wears masks.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“This isn’t one of the fairy-tale stories you read in your childhood, where the hero always wins in the end. You’ll have many battles to fight, and you won’t win them all. And at the end of every single day, you’ll always face the same choice: keep fighting, or give up.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“When you walk into a room, you have the grace and gravitas of an empress, and I swear, even the Deities must pause to look at you.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“You focused on the battle and lost sight of the war.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“If I am not the hunter, then I become the hunted.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Is that hood always part of your outfit?”
“Is ignorance always part of your outfit?”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“We are but dust and stars.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Was there a word to describe grief so deep that it cleaved you apart, carved a hole inside of you and left you hollow?”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Don’t go where I can’t follow.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“There is good and bad in everything, Ana. And it is the good of this world that makes it worth saving.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“You want me to be the monster?
I'll be the monster.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Papa had once told her, after Mama’s death, that there were two types of grief. One was the type that crushed you, that broke your soul and shattered your heart, and left you an empty shell. The other was a grief that made you stronger. You rose from it, you sharpened it, and you carried it with you as a piece of your armor. And you made yourself better. In that way, you never truly lost that person. You carried them with you.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“There was no honor and there were no rules to the game. You only played to win.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“The man he’d become believed that there was no good or bad; there were only various shades of gray.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“There is nothing we can do but go on, one day at a time. We live in their memory, taking the breaths they cannot draw again, catching the warmth of the sunlight that they were meant to feel.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Yet who was it…who had deemed the other parts of her and her empire unworthy? Who had determined that Affinites were less worthy of love, of being human, and why? Simply on the basis that they were…different?”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Your heart is your compass”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“His smile had vanished, and the warm spark in his eyes was suddenly ablaze–a roaring fire, threatening to consume her. To destroy her. 'When you walk into a room, you have the grace and gravitas of an empress, and I swear, even the Deities must pause to look at you.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Your choices, Luka’s voice whispered, but something in her brother’s words was broken now, changed with the year she had spent away from the Palace. Choices were for those with privilege and power.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“You know what they say about diplomacy. It’s the only proper way for two parties to lie to each other’s faces and be happy about it”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“But, in this world life is a masquerade. Everyone wears masks.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Only loss can teach us the true worth of things.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir