Quotes About Identity

they seemed like talismans that might actually keep the monsters at bay. Until she realized that she was one of the monsters.

You keep talking, but you're not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes." I can't help the small smile that's playing at the corners of my mouth. "So," I say, "how did it go over?

Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser también la cura.

And now she was sixteen and felt like she had no imagination left.

I cannot seem to contort myself back into the shape of a dutiful child. I am coming unraveled. I am coming undone.

They see themselves in you and are blinded.

Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not. Even if it hurts. Maybe being human isn't always being weak. Maybe it was shame that was the problem.

Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a magician's apprentice or a pig keeper who might or might not be a king's son or a princess with a prophecy hanging over my head. But I could, maybe, somehow, be part of a community of artists who loved magic.

If you are the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure

it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

A king is not his throne nor his crown.

Eu não quero ser um monstro, mas talvez seja tarde demais para ser outra coisa.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves something important, something so important we don't tell ourselves in a very straightforward way. Sometimes we can only do it with a new face.

You think I'm weak.' 'You are weak,' I tell her. ''You're weak and pathetic and I-' 'I'm a mirror,' she shouts. 'I'm the mirror you don't want to look at.

You'll know you're really one of us when you get your name

I always liked you. I should have said something, but I'm not a good person. I'm not even sure I'm a person at all." "Oh." Surprised, Charlie took his hand and folded her fingers through his. They were surprisingly solid. "You're a person. You're my person." He bent down to bring their clasped hands to his lips.

Midnight rolled her eyes, as though Aidan was being ridiculous. "I bet you were a good girl back home," she said to Tana. "A good girl all your life until you finally met the trouble you want to get in." "You obviously don't know her at all," Aidan told Midnight gruffly. Then he turned back to Tana. "Did he bite you?

I think he thinks about girlfriend like some kind of honorary title, like the way that every president is still 'President So and So,' no matter who's currently in office.

By you, I am forever undone." ? The Queen of Nothing

We have lived in our armour for so long, you and I. And now I am not sure if either of us knows how to remove it.

I feel the stitches holding me together as though I am a rag doll with stuffing trying to leak out.

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. If so, will I make a monster out of him"?

Cardan's face is serious, almost grave, in a way that he seldom allows himself to be. "When my father sent me way, at first i tried to prove that i was nothing like he thought me. But when that didn't work, I tried to be exactly what he believed i was instead. If he thought i was bad, i would be worse. If he thought i was cruel, i would be horrifying. I would live down to his every expectation. If i couldn't have his favor, then i would have his wrath.

No quiero ser un monstruo, pero quizá sea demasiado tarde para poder ser otra cosa.