Bane Quotes

“Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!”
― Christopher Nolan , The Dark Knight Rises

“The moon shows the truth of things.”
― Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane

“Can you be there for me? Just in case I need someone to hold my sword for me?'
I did a little bow with my head.
'Why, my princess, I thought you'd never ask.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“The princess' sword was bloody.
But she refused to tuck it back in. She wanted to leave a trail of their misery behind her, so they could always find her.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Roman 'Bane' Protsenko was beautiful like a Pushkin paragraph. You could read his face from a thousand times, and each time, you'd find something new to admire.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“What's the antonym of hate?
Jesse.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Where have you been?'
'Gail's, Pam's, Mrs. B's. Just...around?'
'No, Snowflake. Where have you been before? Where have you been all my life?'
'I was right here. Waiting for you.' I pressed my palm against his heart, smiling.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“And I couldn't help but feel that justice had been served.
That the princess had won.
And that, somehow, she'd even gotten herself a prince.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“She actually smiled a real smile for the first time, and holy fucking shit, Jesse Carter needed to smile for a goddamn living. She could very possibly bring about world peace, and I wasn't even entirely exaggerating.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“The queen is the most powerful piece,' he hissed. 'Don't let the powns bring you down.'
I wanted to ask him if he was my king.
Because I knew how to play chess very well.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“The queen is the most powerful piece,' he hissed. 'Don't let the pawns bring you down.'
I wanted to ask him if he was my king.
Because I knew how to play chess very well.
But the answer was crystal clear to me.
Roman 'Bane' Protsenko was my knight. The piece of the chess that needed to be moved sooner than the pawns, the bishops, and the queens.
The piece that could have saved me.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“We'd helped each other tear down the walls, and I hoped, with every fiber of my body, that what we'd find underneath them wasn't rotten.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I swallowed hard and realized that I was looking at the man I was in love with. The man who was set to ruin me.
It was in that moment that I realized that I'd survived many things, but Roman Protsenko was probably not going to be one of them.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I love you, Roman 'Bane' Protsenko. Not because you take away my loneliness, but because you gave me strenght.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I'm here for you, Snowflake. I'll be sitting on the sidelines cheering for you because you're the strongest girl I know, but I'll also be there if you need me. Needing someone wouldn't make you any less strong, Jesse. It would just make you human.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I was blessed in so many ways.
Finding Gail.
Finding a job.
Finding literature, and words, and sentences that inspired me to be better, both to other people and to myself.
Finding Bane.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I've handed you everything else I own, including my heart, which I don't want back.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I would spread, and conquer, and be remembered, so that other women would not end up like me.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I think we need matching ass tattoos.'
'Why? Do you have another cool story?'
'Yeah, you.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“No one was pretty the way Snowflake was. Everything around her faded, like a poem with burned edges. She was the lyrics inside it, so focused and sharp.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“You make me feel brave. Powerful. You make staring at myself in the mirror without flinching slighty easier. And I want to, Bane. I want those things I read about in the books.
So, by all means, kiss me.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Every time I saw his face it felt like someone punched my heart from the inside. I wondered if it was a normal reaction when you loved someone, before realizing that yes, I was in love with Roman 'Bane' Protsenko. All of him. The thief, the con, the whore. He was cracking my heart with every touch, shattering it with every smile, and it didn't make any sense, because how could he break something that was already broken?”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Now I was present. I was feeling. My heart was an animal, caged and suppressed and angry. It was hungry. Restless. Out for blood. And I was going to feed it, because new Jesse died. Her quiet, submissive corpse was left on the cool sand of the beach the evening I'd had the flashback. I realized that I wasn't old Jesse just then. I was an even newer version, a stronger version, a version that was not to be messed with. She would make everyone pay. Everyone,”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“The bane of my fear is that it compels me to avoid everything that I fear, which means that I’m going to avoid just about everything in life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I used the word fuck as a verb, adverb, noun, and a simple decoration in every other sentence. If I could marry it, I most likely would. Yet I hated that it left his mouth, and hated it even more that it was directed at her. Mostly, I loathed that the tool was wearing a hoodie so I couldn’t even see the goddamn face I was about to smash with my fist.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“Hey, now, old man. Chill your calcium-deprived bones and stop treating her like crap, or I’ll have to kick your ass.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“For what it’s worth, I think you don’t have it covered, and if you need a helping hand, you know mine is good for more than fingering.” “Disgusting, but thank you.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“You should have seen the stare down between him and Vicious. Vicious straight up asked him if he was his Made-in-China version.”
― L.J. Shen, Scandalous

“Maybe love wasn't about feeling happy and whole. Maybe love was about breaking so the person you cared for would feel a little more whole.”
― L. J. Shen