Rebecca Schaeffer Books & Quotes

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“I just don’t want you to ever not see me. I know so many people see me as nothing more than a tool for pain. But the other side of the coin is when people make excuses for everything I do. They blame it on a tragic past. On what I am. As though WHO you are is defined by WHAT you are.”

Evil Villain Monster Villains Stereotypeypes

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“How many secrets does it take before it's all a lie?” •pg.98 - Kovit”

Lies Secrets Kovit

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“You've picked the path you want. And I will always respect that. It's your path to walk, not mine to criticize.” •pg.381 - Nita”

Respect Paths Choosing Nita

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“Morals were nothing but things to be manipulated with. They were tools you could use against others, and weapons others could use against you.”

Weapons Thoughts Morals Nita

Book:Not Even Bones

Source: Not Even Bones

“Something inside her relaxed at that, at the knowledge that this weird, amorphous thing in her wasn't one-sided, that he wanted her the way she wanted him.”

Acceptance Resolve Slow Burn Romance

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“No one is perfect. No one is exactly who you want them to be. There is something in every person, even your closest friend, that you don't like.” •pg.374 - Nita's thoughts”

Perfect Thoughts Nita

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“Sometimes, she felt like both of them were damned no matter what they did, good or bad. That any choice they made led to ruin. But she couldn't let herself think that way. There's always a way to victory. Always a path to survival. Maybe it was ugly and painted in blood and grief, but it was there. She believed it. She had to believe it." •pg.199 - Nita's thoughts”

Choices Grief Blood Paths Believing Damned Nita Kovit

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“I am not a good person. But I am a person. I make my own choices.” •pg.181 - Kovit”

Choices Good Person Bad Person Kovit

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“She didn't ask herself what could have been, because Kovit was right. Asking what-ifs about people stole their agency for the choices they made in this life. But what could be. That was another question." •pg.89 - Nita's thoughts”

Choices What If Nita Kovit What Could Be

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“Every time someone thinks about me and imagines who I'd be in another life, they take away the choices I've made in this life. They make it seem like I was crammed into a life I didn't want.” He closed his eyes. “They take away my power in my own life. Build me up in their minds into a person I'm not. How is that any different than the people who only see me as a tool or a monster?” - Kovit “I suppose it's not. Just a different side of one-dimensional.” - Nita •pg.181 - Kovit, Nita”

Choices Monster Nita Kovit One Dimensional

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“She wondered if it was impossible to be all of yourself at the same time, because yourself was too complicated. So people broke it down into bits and pieces and wore some of them some days and others different days.”

Psychology Deep Thoughts

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“I'm sorry. I just don't want you to ever not see me. I know so many people see me as nothing more than a tool for pain. But the other side of the coin is when people make excuses for everything I do. They blame it on a tragic past. On what I am. As though who you are is defined by what you are.” •pg.180 - Kovit”

Pain Past Sorry Excuses Kovit

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“But the problem with losing your morality is that sometimes it takes other things with it. You don't realize the things that are important to you, in order to be the person you want to be, until you've already damaged them beyond repair.” •pg.333 - Kovit”

Morality Importance Damage Problems Kovit

Book:Not Even Bones

Source: Not Even Bones

“She'd been scared Kovit would crumble, and while his cracks were large, she trusted he would pick himself up and sharpen the broken edges into weapons." •pg.95 - Nita's thoughts”

Weapons Nita Kovit Sharpen Crumble

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“I won't ever say I'm a good person. I don't want to be. I like who I am - and I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose me. Because it felt like that's what happened to all of them. They'd lost themselves to their monsters.” •pg.332 - Kovit”

Monsters Good Person Inner Demons Bad Person Kovit Losing Oneself

Book:Not Even Bones

Source: Not Even Bones

“In a weird, twisted way, Nita almost felt like Kovit’s and her stories were opposite facets on the same diamond. Different, sure, but similar in some fundamental ways. It made Nita feel . . . weird. Squiggly, not-quite empathy, but sort of fear-empathy . . . something. Nita couldn’t put it into words.”

Monsters Horror Fantasy Nita Kovit Market Of Monsters Not Even Bones

Book:Not Even Bones

Source: Not Even Bones

“One day,someone will have more anger then fear, and they will come, and they will kill him- and on the day, I will light a candle for the loss of a friend who could have been, and then I will celebrate the death of the monster that was.”

Gold Kovit When Villians Rise

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“But Kovit? Kovit has you. And how long he has you, I don't know. One day, someone will have more anger than fear, and they will come, and they will kill him." Gold's gaze was steady. "And on that day, I will light a candle for the loss of the friend who could have been, and then I will celebrate the death of the monster that was." •pg.49 - Gold”

Death Fear Gold Anger Kovit

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“The world isn't fair, Kovit." Nita pressed her forehead to his. "Maybe you do deserve to die. Maybe you're irredeemably evil. But I don't care, and neither does the world. And God damn it, I'm not going to let INHUP take you from me." •pg.170 - Nita”

Love Together Not Fair Nita Kovit

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“Kovit goes around doing terrible things and eventually those things will come back for him. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow,but there will always be someone out there with more hate then logic who will try to kill him.”

Gold Kovit When Villians Rise

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“Sometimes she could see the monster inside him. And sometimes he made her see the monster inside herself.” •pg.285”

Monsters Nita Kovit

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“He swallowed heavily, and just under the surface, that broken, shattered look lurked, trying to press through his thin veneer of composure. But now she could see it wasn't a fatal break, it was the kind of break that was in her own soul too. The kind of break that stemmed from too much loss and betrayal, and you could either let the world break you or you could storm through the world and fill the cracks with the blood of those who'd hurt you until you were a semblance of whole again. Maybe not the same person, but still you, still alive, still moving forward on your own." •pg.94-95 - Nita's thoughts”

Death Breaking Nita Staying Strong Kovit Losing Oneself

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“Perhaps not consciously. But every interaction you have, every decision you make, all of that is subconsciously determined by who you want people to see you as. Or what you want to hide. Or how you want people to perceive others." •pg.183-184 - Fabricio”

Hiding Interactions Perceived Fabricio

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“Damn it, Nita. If you fuck this up because of such a stupid mistake, you'll never live it down. No shit, because I'll never live.” •pg.230 - Nita's inner monologue”

Funny Self Deprecating Humor Nita Inner Monologue

Book:Not Even Bones

Source: Not Even Bones

“...taking the power she was pressing into him and drinking it in until he was as vicious as she. His fingers curled around her body for a moment, digging into her shoulders almost painfully before he pulled away. Nita blinked her mouth tingling, and her body somehow both hot and cold at the same time.”

Steamy Romantic Suspense

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“So you see, Nita, to some extent, all our interactions are manipulations of some sort or another. We're all playing a part, and how we deal with people is a trick to show them what part we want them to think we're playing." •pg.184 - Fabricio”

Manipulation Nita Fabricio

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“I can't promise I won't make mistakes again. I can't promise I won't freak out when you do something that scares me. I'm not perfect. But I can promise I'll always try, and I'll always be on your side.” •pg.381 - Nita”

Scared Mistakes Promises Your Side Nita

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“I made some mistakes. If I had a chance to do it over, knowing what I know now, I'd change some of my plans," Nita admitted, the words sticking a little in her throat. "But I don't know that I regret the choices I made. They seemed right at the time, and I learned a lot from them." •pg.80 - Nita”

Learning Mistakes Nita

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

“But the plain fact is, no matter how many ifs had changed, I'd still be me. Maybe not this me, here with you. But I'd always be a zannie, Nita. I like what I am. I like hurting people.” •pg.180 - Kovit”

Facts Hurt No Matter What Still Me The Truth

Book:Only Ashes Remain

Source: Only Ashes Remain

“But a dark, frightened part of her whispered that the most violent hate is born from the tightest love. And betrayal." •pg.213 - Nita's thoughts”

Love Hate Betrayal Nita

Book:When Villains Rise

Source: When Villains Rise

Rebecca Schaeffer Books

When Villains Rise

Only Ashes Remain

Not Even Bones

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