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21 " Does my pain call to you? Or am I just lucky that you always appear whenever I'm most in need of your company? "
― Caroline Peckham , Queen of Quarantine (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, #4)
22 " Music should hurt, bring joy, resonate with memories or just make you feel. If it does that, it has value beyond all the money in the world as far as I'm concerned. "
23 " I didn't think I'd slept more than a few hours this entire week and my heart hadn't stopped pounding since we'd been forced to watch Kyan collapse in the snow, see his body fail him and were left helpless at his side while his life faded. "
24 " For two months and thirteen days, not one person I saw acknowledged me in any way. I wasn't allowed out. I had no access to the internet or a phone and no one even spoke in my presence. I existed as a ghost in my father's home, scavenging food from the kitchen at night once I managed to stomach it at all. It was...perhaps the worst punishment I have ever suffered at his hands. You cannot fully comprehend the loneliness of a little boy trapped and- "
25 " Don't make me find your granny and force her to eat the kitty litter," he mumbled without opening his eyes. "Her dentures aren't strong enough for that and she'll break 'em on the granules while trying to choke the shit down. "
26 " Really, Saint," Father replied, a sneer in his tone. "You should put your woman in her place before she continues to embarrass herself and you-" "Tatum is in her place," I growled. "And that's firmly at my side. "
27 " Though I’m pretty hopeful you didn’t get to live on as a bean. That would be a shitty fate. No one wants their afterlife to end in a burrito. "
28 " We turned and headed for the door in a close-knit group and Nash cupped his hands around his mouth, calling back before we stepped out into the cold air of the night. "Byeeee Felicia! "
29 " He gave me a flat look which made it all too clear he had zero interest in anyone other than Tatum. Which I knew, but as her husband I felt it was my duty to keep her boyfriends in line. "
30 " I’d read a book about a mountain man once though. He was a mafia prince who’d gone into hiding because of the things he’d found out about himself and he’d sure made being a mountain man sound hot. He’d found a girl up there on that mountain and had torn down heaven and earth to get revenge against the people who had hurt her. The sex had been pretty damn hot too. So maybe Saint could pull off the mountain man thing with the right bit of encouragement. If Nicoli could do it in Beautiful Savage, then why not my OCD criminal mastermind too? "
31 " I am the dark in the dead of the night," Saint said in a low voice and we all growled the response instead of yelling it for once. "Here me roar. "
32 " Who’s ready to become a savage? "
33 " Don’t worry, the only thing Tatum’s in danger of getting skewered by is my cock. "
34 " It was like that feeling you got while reading a book, glancing at the pages left or the percentage remaining and seeing that you were coming towards the end. In a way it was exciting because you were about to get all of the answers you'd been waiting for, about to find out who survived and who had to pay the ultimate price. But it was terrifying too, because you knew that this right here was when the pace was about to pick up, all the shit was going to hit the fan, and everything was about to collide in an explosion of words and pain and adrenaline that just might leave you a deranged mess on the floor once you were finished with it. And even then, there was the very real possibility that it would haunt you afterwards, the characters lingering in your mind like old friends instead of constructs of your imagination. "
35 " The five people standing here are the most important people in the world," Saint said heavily, looking between all of us to make certain we were listening. "Everything that we are doing here tonight pales in comparison to keeping us alive. Nothing is more important than that. Swear it. "
36 " People always say they won’t forget the dead, but they do. They move on. They get past it. They don’t want to face the pain because otherwise it’ll never leave. But if the pain leaves, doesn’t that mean they leave too? "
37 " But the world is full of second chances, kiddo,” he promised. “You can make things good. Any situation. No matter how bad. It can be good again. I swear it. You’ve just gotta be brave enough to give life hell. Don’t settle for less. You’re not here to bow to the world, beautiful girl, you’re here to make the world bow to you. "
38 " Because the reapers of hell are here, Jonas,” I told him in a deadly whisper. “And they’ve come to collect your soul. "
39 " Saint really did have a mini Voldemort living in his heart, but there was definitely a cute little Weasley nestled in there too. "
40 " I tried to break you. But you were the one who broke me. "