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Virtue & Vanity QUOTES

Virtue & Vanity QUOTES

1 " Please, have a little faith and I’ll give you a hundred smiles for every tear I made you cry.”

But there were so many tears. Too many. I looked at him, offering a small, sad smile. “If you did that, I’d never stop smiling.”

He brought his lips an inch from my forehead and whispered to me before kissing it with the lightness of a summer breeze. “That’s the point, angel. "

― Astrid Jane Ray , Virtue & Vanity

2 " Are you afraid?” he asked me in a steely voice.
As I nodded, my body started shivering in response to his threatening presence. Awaiting his reply in genuine fear, I controlled the urge to cry. I didn’t want him to see me broken. I didn’t want him to have that kind of power over me again.
“Good. You should fear me,” he answered calmly, still glaring at me. "

― Astrid Jane Ray , Virtue & Vanity

3 " He saw her. Not just her mesmerizing eyes, her smooth skin and curly, brown hair. He saw beyond that. Way beyond, inside her soul. Inside where he could reach and touch the pieces of the heart he had broken. Some of the pieces were so badly damaged that they could never be fixed again, but he didn’t care about that because they were his broken pieces—his to cherish, his to love, his to bring back to life. "

― Astrid Jane Ray , Virtue & Vanity

4 " i was so wrapped up in reading books...that i'd sort of become oblivious to the world around me. But that was alright, because the reality that surrounded me wasn't even a bit alluring, so it felt good to escape into the exciting world i'd created in my imagination "

― Astrid Jane Ray , Virtue & Vanity

5 " They say there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, but I felt like he was the dark at the end of my light. "

― Astrid Jane Ray , Virtue & Vanity

6 " Please, have a little faith and I’ll give you a hundred smiles for every tear I made you cry.” But "

― Astrid Jane Ray , Virtue & Vanity