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41 " All emotions are dangerous. Especially when they involve other people. "
― Sophie Lark , There Are No Saints (Sinners Duet, #1)
42 " I keep waiting for it to go away, but it doesn’t. Because scars don’t heal -- they’re there forever. "
43 " obsession is not the same thing as affection. "
44 " So I take one last glance at the girl’s beautifully tortured body. Then I step over her and carry on my way. "
45 " I don’t know why you always want to fight me,” he says. “It’s so much more pleasurable to give me what I want . . .” “More pleasurable for who?” I gasp. “For both of us. "
46 " Tell me you’re mine . . .” he hisses. “Tell me I can do whatever I want to you . . "
47 " Because I’m not a good guy,” I tell her. “Not even a little bit. "
48 " I barely have time to turn before I’m struck across the back of the skull. "
49 " You’ve been watching over me. Protecting me. Helping me. You might have told yourself it was for your own enjoyment, for your own fucked up reasons. But you care about me, Cole, I know you do. I’ve seen it. Maybe you don’t want to care. Maybe you’d like to kill me right now to stop it. But I don’t believe you will. Too much has happened between us. You’ve changed too much. "
50 " I wanted you. Genuinely. Because I admire you. And you attract me, I won’t deny it. I wanted to fuck you. But you don’t own me, Cole. And you never will. "
51 " As I make my preparations for Mara’s arrival, I go back and forth a hundred times on how I should kill her. "
52 " What I do feel, I feel intensely: rage, revulsion, and pleasure. "
53 " I drag him into the empty offices next to the gallery. My mouth is all over him, my hands too. "
54 " She trained me from the time I was little,” I say. “She was always the victim, everything bad that happened in her life was someone else’s fault—especially mine. And the thing that makes me angriest is that it fucking worked—I still feel guilty. Every time I ignore her emails or block her calls, I feel guilty. Rationally, I know she’s the fucking worst and I don’t owe her anything. But the emotion is still there, because she conditioned me like a rat looking for pellets. She pressured me and manipulated me and fucked with me every day of my life until I got away from her. "
55 " Never mind my lingering suspicions he might be a murderer "
56 " In that moment I realize this whole thing has been a performance. She knew I would watch. She’s been fucking him for me, at me. To get revenge on me. "
57 " And yet . . . not all of us were drawn to Prince Charming. Some little girls ate up the stories of ball gowns and castles and knights who slayed the dragon . . . While some little girls read the stories of a dark pathway into the woods . . . a twisted mansion with black windows and fog covering the grounds . . . That’s where we wanted to go. No matter what we might find inside . . . "
58 " It’s unlike me to fixate on a woman like this. I find most people horrifically boring. "
59 " This is me being kind. Being merciful. You need to understand that—because if you try to crack me open, you won’t like what crawls out. "
60 " I want to fuck him, not date him. I can’t imagine being his girlfriend. He just told me he doesn’t support the concept of love. What’s that saying? When people show you who they are . . . believe them. "