38 Quotes by Melissa Bashardoust

Very well, then. Be angry. Be violent. But not for his sake. Not to do as he commands. Be angry for yourself. Use that rage to fight him.

There are worse things in the world to be than delicate. If you’re delicate, it means no one has tried to break you.

You were the only person who ever made me feel like I was the one worth protecting.

I was always afraid the poison would make me a monster, but what if trying to get rid of it makes me more of a monster than I was before?

Once hope was gone there was no point in fighting, and so she had no need for anger anymore.

Stories always begin the same way: There was and there was not. There is possibility in those words, the chance for hope or despair.

I don’t think you’re small or insignificant,” he said. His gaze softened, solemn rather than fierce. “I think you have so much power within you that it scares you, and that you make yourself small on purpose because you don’t know what you’ll become if a story than you ever stop.

He knew that if he raised his daughter without love, and that if he told her often enough that she wasn’t capable of it, she would soon start to prove him right, if only because it was all she’d ever known.

There’s something restless growing within you. We’re all very curious to see what happens when it breaks free.