Badass Heroine Quotes & Sayings

I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart. — Robin LaFevers

All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. — Sarah Addison Allen

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous. — Paul Russell

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora. — Anthony Bourdain

There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it. — Anne Lamott

You want to see compassion? Fine." I take the hand pressed against my shoulders and kiss his knuckles. "I've now kissed the hand of my mother's killer."
Before he has time to react to my chaste kiss, I bring my other hand up and slap him. His head whips to the side.
"I'm also a vindictive bitch," I say. — Laura Thalassa

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. — Patti Smith

The Magi
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depths of the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. — W.B.Yeats

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone. — Margaret Atwood

Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for. — George W. Bush

new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve their's. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good." — Lino Rulli

You like to say fucking a lot, don't you?" I muttered while adding the sweatpants to the cart.
"It's like verbal salt. I enjoy sprinkling it on everything. — Bijou Hunter

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another. — Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing. — Raymond Chandler

No one could deny that Gansey was a glorious portrait of youth, the well-tended product of a fortunate and moneyed pairing. — Maggie Stiefvater