Long Live Evil Quotes

“She curled her fingers in under the blood-slick straps of his armour.
His cracked leather gloves caught on her hair.
'You don’t have to kill if you don’t like it,' Key promised. 'I’ll kill them for you.'
'Kill who?'
Against her hair, she felt his mouth curve. 'Everyone.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“I love you as a knife loves a throat,” he murmured as the dead overwhelmed her. “I crawled out of hell to fall at your feet.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Finding your favourite character was discovering a soul made of words that spoke to your own”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“In real life, people let you go. That was why people longed for the love from stories, love that felt more real than real love.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“An anti-hero was just a villain with good PR”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Is my mother right?” Rahela murmured. “Are men useless? They don’t take out the trash, they don’t rescue the damsels. The only thing a villainess should do at a party is make catty remarks and spill red wine on the heroine’s dress! I never get a moment’s peace to make catty remarks.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“People say, I’ll give anything. The universe listens. But the universe doesn’t listen when you say, Wait, not that.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Key shrugged. “If you ask me, she’s too good for him.”

“He’s the supreme monarch of our land, and she’s a treacherous witch whose sins scream to the sky for the gods to strike her down.”

Key nodded approval. "I do like her.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“This man was so vain, he probably thought the troubadours’ songs were about him”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Consider this. A witch who curses you is just telling the future you don’t want to hear.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Let me be your favorite story. Let me be the greatest story you ever heard.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Only heroes cared about honour. Villains were allowed to be practical.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Book characters were dangerously attractive in the safest way. You didn't even know what they looked like, but you knew you liked it.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“She was nearly killed by royal assassins. Burn down the palace until you smoke out who ordered it, then have their hearts and eyes torn out. Give them to her on a plate." Key sneered. "What's the point of power, if you never do anything worthwhile?".”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Head high, neck long, think murder.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Alcohol is a crutch.” “Useful things, crutches,” drawled the Cobra. “Ever see anyone using a crutch they didn’t need?”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“The story wasn't real, but love made it matter.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Characters turned useless when they were pining.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“In that moment his sharp luminesescence seemed blurred into more gentle brightness. He was always a riot of rapid movement and more rapid thought, animated sound and light. Marius understood what he meant. A city boy. A boy like a city.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Perishing for love of Lia was one of the major causes of death in Eyam, up there with being eaten by monsters, torn apart by ghouls, and plague”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil