This Vicious Grace Quotes

“She might be but one stitch in the tapestry, but every stitch had a purpose, and threads couldn't become art without them.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Keep your gods and goddesses on their pedestals if you want, but the rituals, the rules, the isolation? You know that isn’t really from them, right? That’s written by mortals. Men, mostly. We have a bad habit of locking up people who scare us, and the thing that scares men with power most is a woman with more of it.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Cry. Rage. You deserve to. You’re angry, and you should be, but you get to choose whether it will make you bitter or make you better.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“How cruel, that sharing someone else's grief did nothing to alleviate it for them. In physics, there were rules and forces, equal and opposite reactions, a balance. But emotions didn’t obey rules, and though sympathy settled over her like a blanket, it did nothing to help him. … Even her hands, which stole power, strength, and life itself. Were powerless to siphon off any of his suffering.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“the thing that scares men with power most is a woman with more of it.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“I supposed I’ll let you put your clothes on now.”
He snorted. “Like you could stop me.”
“I could kill you with my pinky.”
“I’m shaking.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“And you keep saying you aren't the hero."
"I'm not. You're the hero. I'm just asking a girl to hold my hand.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“She wanted to rip down the sky and shred it with her fingernails, to pluck every star from the fabric of heavens until fathomless darkness matched the void inside her.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“She thought she'd sampled every flavor of loneliness, but this one was new. She should have felt less lonely, not more, but like flame appears brighter in the darkness, her isolation cut even deeper with a stranger filling spaces usually left empty.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Justice. There was no justice in putting someone on trial for what they were, not what they’d done.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Sympathy, kindness, love, and friendship—all those precious human experiences that made for a full life—those were for other people, not her.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Ever since you called yourself stale bread, I've had wicked cravings."
He paused, shook his head, then pushed back up.
"I adore bread. Especially baguettes. Long, thick, hot and slathered with—"
He hit the ground, shaking with laughter. "Enough. Mercy. You're a champion of lewd baking metaphors.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“A poor man lacks many things, but a greedy man lacks them all.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“I can tell you, it's always better to get something unpleasant over with quickly. Drawing out the wait only makes it worse.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Her nerves vibrated hard enough to shatter her bones while she composed an elaborate mental fantasy of ripping the book out of his hands and throwing it, just to hear it hit the wall. Anything to break the silence.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“If you have no preference, how do you choose?

You ask a lot of questions.

You give insufficient answers.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“It's a lot easier to blame someone else when things go wrong than it is when your decisions have terrible consequences.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“The bridge to understanding is constructed of words.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“We have a bad habit of locking up people who scare us, and the thing that scares men with power most is a woman with more of it.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Smells like a damned orchard in here.”
“What do you have against lemons?” Alessa retorted.
His only response was to radiate curmudgeonly gloom through the wall.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“A través de la ventana divina, la luz reduce a los demonios a cenizas.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“Al final del principio,
la diosa creó las islas santuario para sus fieles
y los bendijo con tres dones:
Algunos nacerían con magia.
Un salvador, que la protegería.
Y cuando llegase el momento de la batalla,
los guerreros se mantendrían fuertes,
pues ella les dio una fuente curativa.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“When the game is over, the kind and the pawn go in the same box.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace

“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box.”
― Emily Thiede, This Vicious Grace