Villains And Heroes Quotes

“The role of the villain is only determined by who's telling the story”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth.”
― T.J. Kirk

“But even an angel has to put her halo down from time to time.”
― Adam Silvera, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“I was a coward. I've been a coward. So have you. We've both got blood on our hands. We're not the heroes who saved the world, we're the villains who survived it. I've made my peace with that. You should, too, because guilt is a weight you'll never swim away from.”
― Dianna Hardy, Blood Shadow

“I'll fight them for you. I always carry a book with me, and they fucking hurt when you get smashed in the face with one." He shuts the car off and we both get out.
"You know this from experience?"
"No, just by the sound my victims make.”
― Alice Winters, A Villain for Christmas

“To put it as simply as possible, I ate a god.”
― Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus

“All of us, together, are the unlovable, the unreformable. We, the people, who are deemed incapable of existing alongside society. But, we did just that in the forming of this guild. We have done more than simply build a place to sleep and eat and plan elaborate heists. We have found a place that we, at long last, belong. All of you remember how important that feeling was the first time you truly experienced it here… This guild is more than just an organization and a council and various members. To me, from the beginning, this guild has been a family. It is a place for people like us, the ones who had no place of their own. We made it ourselves, carved out a space in the world that we could call home.”
― Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus

“Over the years, our society has become fascinated with characters who are not fully evil or fully good, but instead lie somewhere in the middle. Our obsession with antiheroes and antivillains is a result of social ideals being rewritten. We are unmaking the concept of wickedness. As the popularity of the 'heroes' in Batman, The Punisher, and Suicide Squad shows, the lines between heroes and villains have become blurred.”
― Samantha Lane, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy

“Sooner or later, they’ll realize that having one spider in the house kills a lot of the lesser insects.”
― Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus

“I'm not your enemy.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“I can be a hero and a villain all in one night.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Wrong Planet people are charismatic and attractive enough to evoke empathy even though they often recklessly defy norms and social conventions, they can get away with being villains, often with nothing more than a cheeky smile.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“But you see, my dear Guardian, everyone is the villain in someone else’s story...”
― Victoria Moschou, Guardian of the Auras

“The final complexity associated with building of a negative character lies in the fact that the image of a subject is often an outcome of parochial, ethnocentric, and orientalist viewpoints. In other words, it can be argued that historical or mythological villains might also have been treated in paradoxical manners. Their negative characteristics would have received much more attention by dominant intellectuals than their positive traits.”
― Nishant Uppal, Duryodhanization: Are Villains Born, Made, or Made Up?

“The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because it posed a question. If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meant to stop him, did that make him a villain?”
― V.E. Schwab

“Miggy sees me watching the approaching wave of dark clouds.
"Maybe it will slow him down."

The guy who's been outfitted by Survivalists "R" Us? No, he probably has some waterproof supersuit that repels lightning. I hate him so much.”
― Lisa Gardner, One Step Too Far

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― Lauren Roberts, Reckless

“In case it has slipped your notice, the vast majority of your education has emphasized survival and not getting caught.”
“I’d say you talked more about the code than anything else,” Tory pointed out.
“What did you think I meant by survival,” Ivan countered.”
― Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus

“In other circumstances, Ivan might have offered him a job. Sadly, with a few notable meta exceptions, dead men didn’t code very well.”
― Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus

“The four examples above - the term villain, the Indian caste system, national image, and a historical period - differ in their parameters of analysis. Yet, they all suffered conscious and systematic degradation of meaning and image in some aspects. Villain is a word that has suffered etymological deterioration. The Vaishyas and the Shudras in the Indian caste system systematically lost their equal stature to the Brahman and the Kshatriya classes. Similarly, while some countries such as Iraq and North Korea were subject to deliberate attempts of defamation by developed nations, the bright sides of the Dark Ages in Europe remain unacknowledged.”
― Nishant Uppal, Duryodhanization

“I really can’t tell if you’re the villain or the hero
of this story, goddess of the soul,” Seshat says.
“I am myself. Those definitions always depend on who’s telling the story and how it is told. What I won’t be again is the victim.”
― Susana Imaginário, Anamnesis

“There should be more than just a villain you can hate. There should be a side you can love, too.”
― Vance Bourjaily, The End of My Life

“Everyone has to decide how best to tell the story of their own villain.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Changing public opinion is difficult. Sometimes it’s easier to lean into the image others have crafted for you.”
― Merry Knightly, (Self-Proclaimed) Menace To Society

“The hero is always someone else's villain.”
― Adam Silvera, Infinity Reaper

“So, why didn't you? There's bound to be some gadget in your computer that would have let you get out of there." This was a question Tori had been burning to ask ever since Donald decided to stay behind in spite of being able to run. She didn't understand it, simply couldn't fathom why he'd lay down his life like that. Fighting for friends and family was one thing, but they could have evacuated with the rest of the club.”
― Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus

“Are you ready, Tiana? One last deal."
His willingness to sacrifice some innocent person's soul alleviated the last prickle of conscience she felt over what she was about to do. This snake in the grass deserved everything that was coming to him.
"Okay," Tiana said. "I'll sign it."
She followed him to a wooden desk that held a lamp, and grabbed hold of the fountain pen he held out to her. Tiana bent over the contract, turning her back slightly as she scribbled across the bottom of the scroll.
"Okay, it's done," she said. She turned and held the vial out to him. "Now, you drink half, and I'll drink half."
His eyes were bright with triumph as he snatched the vial from her free hand, wrenched the cork out of it, and gulped down the entire contents.
He threw his head back and let out a peal of laughter.
But his laughter quickly died as he clutched at his throat and staggered several steps back.
Tiana held out the contract to him, the words Goodbye, Shadow Man scrawled on the signature line.”
― Farrah Rochon, Almost There

“You’re a mage from the Aegis guilds! You’re supposed to be righteous and upstanding! What’s wrong with you?!”
“Well, aren’t you supposed to be evil incarnate? Why are you lecturing me on my bad behavior? Shouldn’t you be encouraging it?” Vere countered.
“Not when your bad behavior is a hindrance to me!”
― Merry Knightly, (Self-Proclaimed) Menace To Society

“Being supported by mainstream legacy media is scary because they never support good things, good people, or people with good intentions.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos