Mia Corvere Quotes

...sneakier than a fart in church... ~ Jay Kristoff

My name is Mia Corvere. Blade of the Red Church. Champion of the Venatus Magni. Chosen of the Dark Mother and Queen of Scoundrels. Never call me girl again. ~ Jay Kristoff

Go, brother! If I'm not back aboard in half an hour, tell your wife I love her! ~ Jay Kristoff

I am the war you cannot win. ~ Jay Kristoff

You can keep the glory. I'm just here for the blood. ~ Jay Kristoff

So given that I'm busier than a whorehouse running a two-for-one special, do me the honour of saying thank you, and taking what you're bloody given. ~ Jay Kristoff

I'll just dance until the music stops, and see where the steps take me. ~ Jay Kristoff

For a moment, she wasn't Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea's voice echoing in her ears. ~ Jay Kristoff

The pair stood watching each other, still as statues, moments ticking by like hours as the gale howled about them.
"You have very good ears, sir." she finally said.
"You have better feet, Pale Daughter. I heard nothing."
"Then how?"
The boy offered a dimpled smile. "You stink of cigarillo smoke. Cloves, I think."
"That's impossible. I'm upwind from you."
The boy glanced at the shadows moving like snakes around his feet.
"Seems to be raining impossible in these parts. ~ Jay Kristoff

Promises are for poets. ~ Jay Kristoff

I live life by my own terms. Otherwise, what's the point? I march to someone else's orders, than I'm living someone else's life. I'm not gonna waste my time worrying about what other people think. I do my thing, they do theirs, and everyone's happy. ~ Mia Storm

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. ~ Mia Wasikowska

While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments. ~ Mia Tyler

change in his iris but she never really ~ Mia Evans

I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't ... " He sucked in a shaky breath. "I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me, Bree. Please teach me. Don't let me destroy this. ~ Mia Sheridan

For a couple hours, I was a kid, doing something simple that I had never done when I was actually a kid. For a short time, I lost myself in doing something for no other reason than that it was fun. ~ Mia Sheridan

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic. ~ Mia Wasikowska

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves. ~ Mia Farrow

My God, she's enchanting. My God, she's mine. ~ Mia Sheridan

That's how Tenleigh affected me. I wanted her so desperately I felt like some part of me was starving for her. ~ Mia Sheridan

Love can destroy you.
Love can erase you.
Love can heal you.
Love can reinvent you,
And, if you are lucky enough,
Love can make you whole again.
That's what Cathy has done to me. ~ Mia Asher

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other. ~ Mia Hamm

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. ~ Mia Kirshner

He's furious. And something else - another expression is working beneath the anger, a look of hurt so deep it makes me want to curl up and die. It's crazy how someone else's pain can do that, just take the legs out from under you" -Mia ~ Lauren Oliver

You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing. ~ Mia Moretti

I want to taste you all the time, Mia. I want the flavor of you on my tongue every fucking minute of the day. And you know it. You shouldn't tease me by telling me you're not wearing panties when I can't have my mouth on you. ~ Melanie Harlow

Life without love, without chasing your dreams, is nothing. It means nothing. It's a sad fucking empty shell, Catherine. It's so easy to drown in darkness, to let it smother you, swallow you whole, to be blinded by it. But you gotta fight. You gotta fucking fight. ~ Mia Asher

I'm a survivor. I'm strong because I've been weak. I have sharp edges because I've been broken. ~ Mia Asher

The thing about being selfish is that you don't care if someone is at your feet begging you to stay with him, offering you the world, his heart and soul. It doesn't matter. You'll do whatever you want to do. What you need to do for yourself. Nothing matters but what you want. What you think you need. ~ Mia Asher

You can sit," Maggot said in a small, shy voice.

Mia did as she was bid, holding her throbbing hand to her chest. Maggot toddled across the room, fishing about in a series of chests. She returned with a handful of wooden splints and a ball of woven brown cotton.

"Hold out your hand," the girl commanded.

Mia's shadow swelled, Mister Kindly drinking her fear at the thought of what was to come. Maggot looked her digits over, stroking her chin. And gentle as falling leaves, she took hold of Mia's smallest finger.

"It won't hurt," she promised. "I'm very good at this."

"All riiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAGHH!" Mia howled as Maggot popped her finger back into place, quick as silver. She rose from the slab and bent double, clutching her hand.

"That HURT!" she yelled.

Maggot gave a solemn nod. "Yes."

"You promised it wouldn't!"

"And you believed me." The girl smiled sweet as sugarfloss. "I told you, I'm very good at this." She motioned to the slab again. "Sit back down."

Mia blinked back hot tears, hand throbbing in agony. But looking at her finger, she could see Maggot had worked it right, popping the dislocated joint back into place neat as could be. Breathing deep, she sat back down and dutifully proffered her hand.

The little girl took hold of Mia's ring finger, looked up at her with big, dark eyes.

"I'm going to count three," she said.

"All riiiiia ~ Jay Kristoff

I've changed. I've learned a million lessons that make me a better man for you and for Cade. Not a perfect man, but you wouldn't want that for me any more than I would for you. ~ Mia Ashlinn

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus."
A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back."
Oh man, what an opening that was. ~ Richelle Mead

We don't get to choose what we carry, but we do get to choose the grace with which we carry it. I ~ Mia Sheridan

I'm not any kind of girl. I don't need man, but I don't hate romance. I think I'm kinda obsessed with romance, really, which is probably why I'm still single. -Mia ~ Audrey Carlan

Go for the Goal! ~ Mia Hamm

Mia, what is the most important thing for a soccer player to have?" With no hesitation, she answered, "Mental toughness. ~ Carol S. Dweck

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again. ~ Mia Wasikowska

Mia, I already told you I wasn't going anywhere. This is where I want to be. ~ Fabiola Francisco

I rarely meet other young actors. ~ Mia Wasikowska

You need to look the fucking sick joke that is life straight in the eye and tell it to bring its fucking A game because you shouldn't go down without a fight. ~ Mia Asher

Nature was cruel that way; giving long, dark lashes to boys who didn't appreciate them. ~ Mia Sheridan

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality. ~ Mia Maestro

Lirael didn't answer either question. She just looked at him, waiting for him to talk. He met her gaze at first, then faltered and looked away. There was something unnerving about her eyes. A toughness he had never seen in the young women he knew from the debutante parties in Corvere. It was partly this that made him talk, and partly a desire to impress her with his knowledge and intelligence. ~ Garth Nix

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. ~ Mia Hamm

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core. ~ Mia Wasikowska