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Rebecca Schaeffer QUOTES

Rebecca Schaeffer QUOTES

1 " Sometimes freedom comes at an ugly price."
•pg.246 - Nita "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

2 " He swallowed heavily, and just under the surface, that broken, shattered look lurked, trying to press through his thin veneer of composure. But now she could see it wasn't a fatal break, it was the kind of break that was in her own soul too. The kind of break that stemmed from too much loss and betrayal, and you could either let the world break you or you could storm through the world and fill the cracks with the blood of those who'd hurt you until you were a semblance of whole again. Maybe not the same person, but still you, still alive, still moving forward on your own."
•pg.94-95 - Nita's thoughts "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

3 " I won't ever say I'm a good person. I don't want to be. I like who I am - and I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose me. Because it felt like that's what happened to all of them. They'd lost themselves to their monsters.”
•pg.332 - Kovit "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters, #1)

4 " I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices.”
•pg.181 - Kovit "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

5 " You've picked the path you want. And I will always respect that. It's your path to walk, not mine to criticize.”
•pg.381 - Nita "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

6 " She didn't ask herself what could have been, because Kovit was right. Asking what-ifs about people stole their agency for the choices they made in this life. But what could be. That was another question."
•pg.89 - Nita's thoughts "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

7 " But the plain fact is, no matter how many ifs had changed, I'd still be me. Maybe not this me, here with you. But I'd always be a zannie, Nita. I like what I am. I like hurting people.”
•pg.180 - Kovit "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

8 " Sometimes, she felt like both of them were damned no matter what they did, good or bad. That any choice they made led to ruin. But she couldn't let herself think that way. There's always a way to victory. Always a path to survival. Maybe it was ugly and painted in blood and grief, but it was there. She believed it. She had to believe it."
•pg.199 - Nita's thoughts "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

9 " Perhaps not consciously. But every interaction you have, every decision you make, all of that is subconsciously determined by who you want people to see you as. Or what you want to hide. Or how you want people to perceive others."
•pg.183-184 - Fabricio "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

10 " I think, more than anything, people like to feel superior to others. Canadians like to feel that they’re better than Americans. Americans love to feel they’re better than the whole world. And when people feel superior, it makes it harder for them to see the problems just beneath the surface. They don’t want to believe them, to face them, because if they did, can they really claim to be superior anymore? "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

11 " She'd been scared Kovit would crumble, and while his cracks were large, she trusted he would pick himself up and sharpen the broken edges into weapons."
•pg.95 - Nita's thoughts "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

12 " No one likes to be wrong. So sometimes, when something proves us wrong, it just makes us more fervent in our belief of it. But it's okay to be wrong.”
•pg.226 - Adair "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

13 " ...not even bones, only ashes remained when Nita rose. Not even her mother could put herself back together after being blown to literal smithereens. "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

14 " Every time someone thinks about me and imagines who I'd be in another life, they take away the choices I've made in this life. They make it seem like I was crammed into a life I didn't want.” He closed his eyes. “They take away my power in my own life. Build me up in their minds into a person I'm not. How is that any different than the people who only see me as a tool or a monster?” - Kovit

“I suppose it's not. Just a different side of one-dimensional.” - Nita
•pg.181 - Kovit, Nita "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

15 " In a weird, twisted way, Nita almost felt like Kovit’s and her stories were opposite facets on the same diamond. Different, sure, but similar in some fundamental ways. It made Nita feel . . . weird. Squiggly, not-quite empathy, but sort of fear-empathy . . . something. Nita couldn’t put it into words. "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters, #1)

16 " Morals were nothing but things to be manipulated with. They were tools you could use against others, and weapons others could use against you. "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters, #1)

17 " Looking at Fabricio meant facing her own part in his screams. It meant facing that she didn't actually feel bad about what she did. "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

18 " I can't promise I won't make mistakes again. I can't promise I won't freak out when you do something that scares me. I'm not perfect. But I can promise I'll always try, and I'll always be on your side.”
•pg.381 - Nita "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)

19 " I made some mistakes. If I had a chance to do it over, knowing what I know now, I'd change some of my plans," Nita admitted, the words sticking a little in her throat. "But I don't know that I regret the choices I made. They seemed right at the time, and I learned a lot from them."
•pg.80 - Nita "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , When Villains Rise (Market of Monsters, #3)

20 " Sometimes she could see the monster inside him. And sometimes he made her see the monster inside herself.”
•pg.285 "

― Rebecca Schaeffer , Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters, #2)