49 Quotes by S.J. Kincaid

It’s terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.

Everyone believed Diabolics were fearless, but in my earliest years, all I knew was fear.

But then, I’ve always believed love is the most volatile substance in the universe. It erupts, it incinerates, and then it simply flames out. . . .

People spoke so reverently of affection. For me, it seemed a torment. I couldn’t believe people enjoyed these feelings. How could someone relish this excruciating need to secure a claim on another human?

Love. Comfort. I didn’t know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man’s neck.As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.

That was when I realized for the first time that Sidonia Impyrean—meek, fearful, shy, and gentle—could be indomitable.

If he was her murderer, I had a lifetime to figure it out. I could avenge her tomorrow if I learned he’d done it. I could avenge her in ten years if I learned in ten years, and I’d have ten beautiful years before that. I would always mourn Sidonia, but I had survived this loss once and I could survive it again.

I had only two goals going forward: to fool people into thinking I was Sidonia, and of course, to try not to die.

I looked at the stone, fragmented and cratered by my rage and jealousy. So this was a visual representation of a Diabolic’s affection, then: an ugly, broken, blood-spattered stone.