One for My Enemy Quotes

“Write me a tragedy, Lev Fedorov,” she whispered to him. “Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the pages by heart. Isn’t that a story, too?” she asked him softly.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“I will always love you, I will love you until the day I die— and if you’re the one to kill me, then by all means, you should know without a trace of doubt you will not have turned me away. I will have spent the final beat of my heart loving you, just as I always have. Only you, Masha. Only you, forever, I promise.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Hate and love were so very similar. Both were intestinal, visceral. Both left scars, vestiges of pain. Hate could not be born from a place of indifference. Hate was only born from opposite sides of the same coin.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“If I ever decide to give my heart to you, Dima, she’d said, holding his hand palm up, then cut it out of my chest and keep it somewhere safe, where no one else can get to it. Keep it locked somewhere, she murmured, repeating the old stories as she brushed her lips against the lines of his palm: Inside a needle, inside of an egg, which is inside of a duck, which is inside a hare, which is in an iron chest—and then bury it under our green oak tree, Dima, where no one will ever find it.

Keep it safe for me, Dima, will you?”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Sashneka,” Marya said, “you are not incomplete because a piece of your heart is gone. You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you are richer for it; you don't simply become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Sometimes my eyes open and I know, somewhere in my bones, that I have formed myself to the shape of waking up beside you.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“The past is nothing. We are everything.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Is it too late to love you, Lev Fedorov?” she asked him, her hands finding his, and he shook his head, pulling her with him.

“Sasha, it’s never too late for us”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“My daughters are diamonds, as Yaga so often said. Nothing is more beautiful. Nothing shines brighter. And most importantly, nothing will break them.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Dimitri Fedorov, I already gave you my useless heart. Now, have everything else that matters. Have my loyalty, my right hand. Have everything that was once my mother’s and give me everything you once swore to Koschei. Give me all of you, take everything of me, and let’s see who stands against us then.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Don't forgive me...if you can't, and certainly don't love me...You'll only make fools of us both.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Sashneka,” Marya said, “you are not incomplete because a piece of your heart is gone. You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you are richer for it; you don't simply become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“...she wore her love like a shield, like armor, and he ached for her; for what she was to him; for what they might have been.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Because nobody will deny you anything the moment you stop denying yourself. Who could possibly have sovereignty greater than yours?” she asked, insistent. “Who on earth could have the right to refuse you, if you do not permit it? If this isn’t the way, Sasha, then find another one.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“We can’t curse all the men in the world, can we?” “Not in a single day, at least,”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“you don’t become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“But by then his brother had disappeared, the bloodied sword left abandoned in a pool of crimson on the floor. Only then did Dimitri finally notice the cut across his chest; across his own heart, which for some reason did not stop beating despite the stillness where Marya Antonova’s should have been. He’d been so sure that it would, for having loved her; he’d been positive, once, that it would break, shatter, deliver itself to oblivion, all for love of her.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“I’m keeping you from death, not letting you live. There’s a difference.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Why didn’t you let me choose you?” he asked hoarsely. “I would have gone to you, Masha, if you’d asked. You would’ve only had to ask, and I would have chosen you over everything.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“I could have been enough if you had ever let me.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Marya Antonova was as mighty as a strike of lightning, and as difficult to hold. She was as captivating as fear, as undeniable as hunger, and he had loved her then—and loved her now—for all the tremor and the fury that she was.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Are you afraid?”

“I’m not afraid,” Sasha said, and as with all her daughters, Yaga believed her.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“...and you will find power in you no one else will ever dream of. You will have hunger no one else will ever feel, and it will drive you. It will push you to madness or else to greatness, and you have only to choose for yourselves what your futures will be.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Write me a tragedy, Lev Pedrov," she whispered to him. "Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the pages by heart.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“It was no whispered confession. It was no gentle murmur in the dark. It was the truth, plain and bare, and she wasn’t vulnerable for having said it. Instead, she wore her love like a shield,”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“We might have had a very dull life together- mundane, you know? And probably wonderful.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“Poor Luka, he'll never know what it is to have six sisters trying to borrow his clothes"
"Well maybe he will" Sasha joked. "Katya says she wants more, and maybe one day you'll have seven daughters of your own."
"Please, don't curse me today, Sashenka," Marya sighed. "I've had a very trying morning, and I simply cannot bring myself to imagine such a dystopian future right now.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“At best, Dimitri Fedorov was Marya Antonova’s greatest weakness. At worst, she was his.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“She was the sun, the moon, and the stars. She was fantasy incarnate, and she had chosen him.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy

“I thought I was weak for you, Dima, but I was wrong. I’m Marya Antonova,” she told him, meeting his eye, “and I am loved by Dimitri Fedorov, and for that, I could never be weak.”
― Olivie Blake, One for My Enemy