Top 60 Marie Montine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We are all monsters.”

— Marie Montine

2. “I don’t know how much more of this I can take,” Ryan said. “I don’t know who or what I am anymore. How can I help and heal people when I am drinking their blood!”

— Marie Montine

3. “You humans destroyed my life, my family’s life, everything I loved and treasured. It was because of your ancestor that my kind fell. And then, the one thing I could still love in the shadows of the Night Realm was Oliara. When that was taken away from me, I became empty. So do not tell me you love me; even if I could give it back – which would never be given to a human – I could not: I no longer know how to.”

— Marie Montine

4. “Not even her lover’s embrace could penetrate the chill that founds its way deep into her soul.”

— Marie Montine

5. “Night Realm. He is the one who had the power to change the Empians: the Dark Descent.” She turned to him. “The fact he’s beckoning you means a lot. For one: you are not on his side, and he wants you to be.”

— Marie Montine

6. “Come on, Wind Dancer, it’s time to go. It’ll be just you and me asking for the night’s companionship.”

— Marie Montine

7. “The gems are worth more on the island than off it.”

— Marie Montine

8. “Pain seared through Cassandra as if the Gods answered by slicing her belly with a serrated knife, wanting to extract the horror from inside of her before she could let it loose into the world.”

— Marie Montine

9. “Dear, my life is just as confined as yours, but I am all right with it. Who knows what’s out there. We are all meant for different things. But if something piques your interest, then perhaps you are one of those to find out what can still your heart.”

— Marie Montine

10. “The truth had always been there, but he had been afraid to delve into his past. It only eventually caught up to him anyway, like a relentless monster, gobbling up his entire life, the bones having been spat out, leaving behind a pathetic existence.”

— Marie Montine

11. “You are a difficult woman, Cassandra. I should give you back to the humans. They deserve you.”

— Marie Montine

12. “So it is time for you to face it and accept it. I am ready for this battle, Cassandra. The question is: will you be?”

— Marie Montine

13. “I’m not sure if I visited someone in the spirit world or if someone visited me. But I know I saw the scariest person in my life. And she’s after me.”

— Marie Montine

14. “The world rumbled around them. The Kins walked away from the long line of sand that rose into the air. An extensive tunnel emerged like a ginormous serpent, shaking off the desert as if it was done its play.”

— Marie Montine

15. “The heart belonging to the man of my dreams still belongs to a woman who died decades ago.”

— Marie Montine

16. “Raesha was of great wonder and irony; she did not need the Dark Guardian’s help to become like us. She became worse than us. I am certain that somehow the Guardian knew of this, and that was why he did not change her in the first place; why diminish something that was already so potentially dangerous; what is worse than someone being changed to darkness? Someone who on their own free will becomes darkness.”

— Marie Montine

17. “I know you yearn for him, and for one last time you shall have him. But please, let go of him after this.”

— Marie Montine

18. “I just worry you may pay too much attention to what you’re running from to see what you’re running to.”

— Marie Montine

19. “You’re the one who said nothing is over yet, that nothing has been determined, so don’t say we can’t! We didn’t write that prophecy with our hands; we didn’t put down on paper what we will do! We have a choice!”

— Marie Montine

20. “I am sorry, Lharkin told them, but I cannot: I no longer have the power of the Light. To bring Spyrel back, Cila, would mean to lose my own life, as that would be the price a Night Empian would now pay.”

— Marie Montine

21. “Never say that you’re useless! I’ve seen more courage tonight from you than I have ever seen in someone in my entire life; you were ready to fight those Kins to certain death! Now get up!”

— Marie Montine

22. “Yes my sister left. But she didn’t truly come back.”

— Marie Montine

23. “You should have come the minute you suspected anything. You tell me you would not betray me, and yet your actions challenge your words.”

— Marie Montine

24. “Your realm? This is the Guardian’s and you’re just playing in his. You are nothing but a fragment of his world. A piece of it.”

— Marie Montine

25. “I am torn by duty and desire.”

— Marie Montine

26. “Blue light streamed out from her hands and pounded into the desert. An enormous mass of sand flew into the air, leaving behind a gaping hole. The officers closest to it fell back on the ground from the energy pushing up into the air as if the earth was exhaling a breath held for hundreds of years.”

— Marie Montine

27. “It was a limbo of an existence; he couldn’t have what he once had, and he was never able to move on. His memories were his only company.”

— Marie Montine

28. “Feast upon your enemies to give you life. This, too, shall give me mine as I savor the destruction of flesh and blood off the children of the Light. Their souls will cry out to me, my own soul singing with its tune until one day the true power of my Realm will exist in all dimensions.”

— Marie Montine

29. “It enables me to survive and to think of tomorrow. You cannot survive in my world if you will care too much for the ones today who could perish tomorrow. I only speak of experience. You still have time before it is too late. Just consider the consequences. Do us all a favor by not letting us all suffer from it.”

— Marie Montine

30. “When she was a young girl, you remarked how beautiful she was, how special she was. Why couldn’t you say by the way, she’s to lead an army of men to those monsters? And that she is being set up as bait!”

— Marie Montine

31. “I don’t think we know what kind of enemy we are really dealing with.”

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32. “But I’m not going to as long as I can help it, as long I’m breathing I will not stop the breath of another, Kins or humans or whoever. Words don’t make us do what we’re supposed to do. My actions are my own, I don’t care who wrote them. So I’m going along with this journey to find my own path.”

— Marie Montine

33. “These walls breathe with a consciousness fueled by the powers of the Empians.”

— Marie Montine

34. “I was born into wealth, so I wouldn’t be. Anyway, the treasure I seek is not for greed.”

— Marie Montine

35. “Ryan’s passion towards Stephanie surged around the restaurant like lightning from the love-gods and re-ignited her own dormant feelings for Lharkin.”

— Marie Montine

36. “I cannot go about killing people that do not know me or know of me. I do not kill for pleasure, or on impulse, but for survival and for necessity. That is what the wolf has taught me, and that is the way of all living things.”

— Marie Montine

37. “What am I doing here? The same thing all of you men are: getting prepared for the final war with the Empians.”

— Marie Montine

38. “The longer you live by the dark, the better you come to understand its dark nature. It takes darkness to see darkness. Maybe they are suspicious for a reason, or for no reason other than they know what the Dark has a tendency to be. Maybe their human side trusts you more than their dark side trusts him.”

— Marie Montine

39. “The Dark Guardian wants to become the sole Guardian of all existence, in all realms. He wants to claim dominance and bend all to his will; the darker the world and its inhabitants become, the more alive and powerful he will feel.”

— Marie Montine

40. “Over the years, the rough edges of torture hardened her soft face and dimmed the brilliance of her eyes. In her trials of fighting to have his father regain the Light, she had in turn lost her own.”

— Marie Montine

41. “Only pay attention to your own silence, nothing around you exists. And then, listen.”

— Marie Montine

42. “A perverse sensation glided across his skin. It wanted to search deeper until Ryan understood that this presence wanted to do more than that: it wanted him. Normally he was the one that could touch and get to know objects or people. But this temple was also exercising the same gift on him.”

— Marie Montine

43. “Be careful with your visions, Ryan; that the nightmare doesn’t consume your reality, where you begin to live in that nightmare, and can only dream back your reality.”

— Marie Montine

44. “You are looking charming yourself. I’m quite surprised, actually.”

— Marie Montine

45. “I called you a fool for a reason: it would probably take an eternity before the temple stops playing with you and another eternity before you realize it.”

— Marie Montine

46. “He will lead us all to hell.”

— Marie Montine

47. “I know a little more about you now, Audray, or whoever you really are. The New Year is near, and my son’s resolution will not include you. Or I could make your life very uncomfortable after I tell James about you.”

— Marie Montine

48. “How can you help me and protect me when you lie to me? How can I be a good man when you don’t have faith that I will be one?”

— Marie Montine

49. “Well, we are still the created, no matter how dark we’ve become. We are no more trespassers than the jaguar that had been trailing us. We all belong, because we all live, as simple as that.”

— Marie Montine

50. “The commander stopped in front of Audray. “Well, isn’t this a special day. We have the temple, this chamber I never knew about, and the woman who stole my husband!”

— Marie Montine