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1 " And I didn’t want to think about that. I didn’t want to exist inside that hopelessness. I just wanted to sink into this stolen moment with him and keep our doomed reality at bay. "
― Bianca Scardoni , Iniquitous (The Marked, #3)
2 " It was false hope, and I didn’t want any part of it. "
3 " I was done with trying to fit into everyone’s preconceived box of who I was supposed to be. I was going to live my life my way, however short-lived it may be, and I wasn’t asking for permission anymore. "
4 " I’m bonded to Dominic. "
5 " The cruel world slipped away from me, and with it went all the other bad things in my life; "
6 " Trace "
7 " I could handle the truth. I would listen to its heartbreaks and I would mourn the world as I knew it because that’s the kind of girl I was, and then I would pick my pretty self off the floor and do what I was supposed to do. Just like I always did. I "
8 " The blur of looming evergreens zipped by me so quickly it was as though they were never really there at all. Sometimes I felt just like those trees, rooted in mud with no escape, while my life sat in a car and passed me by. "
9 " INFERNAL GLOSSARY ANAKIM INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR For there to be light, you must first suffer the darkness. "
10 " Sometimes I felt just like those trees, rooted in mud with no escape, while my life sat in a car and passed me by. "
11 " And when we were alone, I…I asked him to kiss—” “Stop. Stop.” His hands came out in front of him. “I’ve heard enough. "
12 " Problem, Romeo? "
13 " Somnium! "
14 " I’m an ass.” I shrugged "
15 " There was something to be said about the quietness of night. About the stillness. Everything was tranquil and unmoving as though the world had come to a temporary stop in its rotation—ceased its constant spiral of madness. "
16 " damn words, but my mouth refused to tell the lie. My body wanted him the way the desert wanted rain, the way a lonely heart ached for love. Every inch of me hungered for him to devour me. "