“You are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.”

A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.

People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.

Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.

Those freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.

Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.

I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.

You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.

Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.

Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.

Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.

Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.

Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.

She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.

Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.

You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Love is not full of pity (as men say) But deaf and cruel, where he means to pray.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

You call me cruel after I finally chose to love myself fully before you.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.