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Top 30 Margaret Owen Quotes (2025 Update)

Margaret Owen Quote: “There’s a saying in the Blessed Empire: Little thieves steal gold, and great ones steal Kingdoms, but only one goes to the gallows. I’m not sure I agree. I’ve little interest in kingdoms, but even less in dancing with the hangman. And I’ve gotten very good – great, you might even say – at stealing gold.”

1. “There’s a saying in the Blessed Empire: Little thieves steal gold, and great ones steal Kingdoms, but only one goes to the gallows. I’m not sure I agree. I’ve little interest in kingdoms, but even less in dancing with the hangman. And I’ve gotten very good – great, you might even say – at stealing gold.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “We all know the storm’s coming; only a fool waits for the lightning to tell them to find shelter.”

2. “We all know the storm’s coming; only a fool waits for the lightning to tell them to find shelter.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Once upon a time, there was a girl as cunning as the fox in winter, as hungry as the wolf at first frost, and as cold as the icy wind that kept them at each other’s throats. Her name was not Gisele, nor was it Marthe, nor even Pfennigeist. My name was -is- Vanja. And this is the story of how I got caught.”

3. “Once upon a time, there was a girl as cunning as the fox in winter, as hungry as the wolf at first frost, and as cold as the icy wind that kept them at each other’s throats. Her name was not Gisele, nor was it Marthe, nor even Pfennigeist. My name was -is- Vanja. And this is the story of how I got caught.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “I can’t say if you’re a good person or not. But the more I know of you, the more I understand that the world keeps making you choose between survival and martyrdom. No one should fault you for wanting to live.”

4. “I can’t say if you’re a good person or not. But the more I know of you, the more I understand that the world keeps making you choose between survival and martyrdom. No one should fault you for wanting to live.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Pa’d taught her to watch the starving wolf. When beasts go hungry too long, he’d said, they forget what they ought to fear.”

5. “Pa’d taught her to watch the starving wolf. When beasts go hungry too long, he’d said, they forget what they ought to fear.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “The only difference between a conqueror and a thief is an army.”

6. “The only difference between a conqueror and a thief is an army.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Just because you can survive without someone doesn’t mean they’re unwanted.”

7. “Just because you can survive without someone doesn’t mean they’re unwanted.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “It wasn’t that she wanted to burn the world down, no. She just wanted the world to know that she could.”

8. “It wasn’t that she wanted to burn the world down, no. She just wanted the world to know that she could.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “But I’m learning the bitter difference between independence and self-exile.”

9. “But I’m learning the bitter difference between independence and self-exile.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “To everyone whose mercy is demanded, and who dreams instead of teeth.”

10. “To everyone whose mercy is demanded, and who dreams instead of teeth.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Pa says change always has a price.” Fie stared at dawn’s edge in the eastern sky. “That even Phoenixes need ashes to rise.”

11. “Pa says change always has a price.” Fie stared at dawn’s edge in the eastern sky. “That even Phoenixes need ashes to rise.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “It was selfish. It was ugly. And it was true.”

12. “It was selfish. It was ugly. And it was true.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “There’s always a cost to helping folk. Cur knew there’s a cost to not helping, too. All you can do is decide which you want to pay.”

13. “There’s always a cost to helping folk. Cur knew there’s a cost to not helping, too. All you can do is decide which you want to pay.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “I don’t get to look away from the throats I have to cut. Why should you?”

14. “I don’t get to look away from the throats I have to cut. Why should you?”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Your ma said you were born vexed with the world, aye. And Swain said you were born vexed enough to turn it on its head.”

15. “Your ma said you were born vexed with the world, aye. And Swain said you were born vexed enough to turn it on its head.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “The only monsters she’d seen were humans with something to hide behind.”

16. “The only monsters she’d seen were humans with something to hide behind.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Always watch the crowd. Always know your way out. Never go into town alone. And on the nights you burn sinners, sleep with your sandals on.”

17. “Always watch the crowd. Always know your way out. Never go into town alone. And on the nights you burn sinners, sleep with your sandals on.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “I am his puzzle and he is my lock, and it’s an arms race to solve the other first. But somewhere in all the knots and twists and trapdoors, he turned to an arsonist, leaving his embers in my veins, smoke on my tongue, a fire burning softly in my heart. And it will not die easy.”

18. “I am his puzzle and he is my lock, and it’s an arms race to solve the other first. But somewhere in all the knots and twists and trapdoors, he turned to an arsonist, leaving his embers in my veins, smoke on my tongue, a fire burning softly in my heart. And it will not die easy.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “I will follow until I must lead. I will shield until I must strike. I will fight until I must heal.”

19. “I will follow until I must lead. I will shield until I must strike. I will fight until I must heal.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “Fie remembered the first time she’d held Phoenix fire. She hadn’t wanted to burn the world down; she’d wanted the world to know she could.”

20. “Fie remembered the first time she’d held Phoenix fire. She hadn’t wanted to burn the world down; she’d wanted the world to know she could.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “She hated Tavin for his silence, for not leaving, for driving her to spew up the sickening fire in her heart instead of letting it break her down to ash.”

21. “She hated Tavin for his silence, for not leaving, for driving her to spew up the sickening fire in her heart instead of letting it break her down to ash.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “You’re what happens when an encyclopedia wishes on a star to be a real boy, if that encyclopedia was also an absolute prick.”

22. “You’re what happens when an encyclopedia wishes on a star to be a real boy, if that encyclopedia was also an absolute prick.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “There’s just so much I could be stealing right now if I didn’t have social obligations with the man who tried to poison me earlier in the week. And if it weren’t for the curse. And, I suppose, the law, though really we all know my concern for that is cosmetic at best.”

23. “There’s just so much I could be stealing right now if I didn’t have social obligations with the man who tried to poison me earlier in the week. And if it weren’t for the curse. And, I suppose, the law, though really we all know my concern for that is cosmetic at best.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “In the world I knew, there were three reasons a person could be wanted: for profit, pleasure, or power. If you could satisfy only one, they used you. Two, they saw you. Three, they served you.”

24. “In the world I knew, there were three reasons a person could be wanted: for profit, pleasure, or power. If you could satisfy only one, they used you. Two, they saw you. Three, they served you.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “No chief I’ve ever met looked down the road and wanted what they saw waiting for them.”

25. “No chief I’ve ever met looked down the road and wanted what they saw waiting for them.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “They were all short lives. She’d just wanted to spend more of hers with him. She’d just wanted more time.”

26. “They were all short lives. She’d just wanted to spend more of hers with him. She’d just wanted more time.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “And this is the story of how I am caught.”

27. “And this is the story of how I am caught.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “He won the next five rounds, played in silence but for the countdown. Fie didn’t care. The sooner the damned game was over, the better. She’d learned her lesson for digging into ugly truths with pretty boys.”

28. “He won the next five rounds, played in silence but for the countdown. Fie didn’t care. The sooner the damned game was over, the better. She’d learned her lesson for digging into ugly truths with pretty boys.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “The most powerful people in the kingdom can’t even say the problem is real.” “They know it is,” Fie said grimly, scanning the dark for torches. “Otherwise they wouldn’t be so hell-bent on pretending it isn’t.”

29. “The most powerful people in the kingdom can’t even say the problem is real.” “They know it is,” Fie said grimly, scanning the dark for torches. “Otherwise they wouldn’t be so hell-bent on pretending it isn’t.”

— Margaret Owen

Margaret Owen Quote: “And the uneasy truth was that thinking on it felt like standing at the shores of an ocean on a moonless night – something terrible, vast, and unseen roaring before her, waiting to swallow her whole the moment she stepped beyond solid ground.”

30. “And the uneasy truth was that thinking on it felt like standing at the shores of an ocean on a moonless night – something terrible, vast, and unseen roaring before her, waiting to swallow her whole the moment she stepped beyond solid ground.”

— Margaret Owen

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