Home > Work > Up in Smoke (King, #8)
1 " You went to college?” I look at her with disbelief. “In a year and a half?” She wrinkles her nose. “More like half an hour. Just for enough time to threaten the dean into giving me a degree. It’s real pretty, too. I framed it. It’s hanging in my room at the MC. Come by. I’ll show you sometime. "
― T.M. Frazier , Up in Smoke (King, #8)
2 " I’ll love you with everything I have and all that I am. It ain’t much, but it’s yours if you’ll let me give it to you. "
3 " Because you belong to me. Your fear, your anger, your fury, your fucking defiance. It all belongs to me. And nobody fucks with what’s mine but ME. "
4 " I am loved by him in a way that no one else on the planet could ever love me. "
5 " You’re right,” I whisper. “I am a monster.” Roughly, I grab her chin, forcing her to look me in the eye. “I’m your monster. "
6 " You two conspire to take out an entire criminal organization by yourselves and fail to include me? "
7 " Kids, you can’t live without them and you can’t leave them alone with the household items they can create explosives from.” “Is that what the saying is?” “How the shit would I know? "
8 " It’s all done. It’s over.” Rage announces, pulling away and clapping her hands together. “Now let’s kill something and string its intestines up like Christmas lights. "
9 " I imagine that in this moment he's not my captor and I'm not his captive. He's just a beautiful hard man and I'm just a lonely girl starving for human contact. "
10 " Shit, Rage was right. You really did name the bacon. "
11 " Smoke isn’t the problem he is the motherfucking consequence. "
12 " She’s my victim, and I’m her tormentor. She’s my prey, and I’m the predator. She is mine to do with as I please. "
13 " You wanna know what the really fucked-up part is?” I sigh. “You’re still the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. "
14 " This man is a walking billboard for both terror and lust. A human thunderstorm. He’s beautiful. "
15 " I see that look in your eyes,” he says. “It’s best you put an end to that shit right now.”“What look is that?” I ask.“Hope. It ain’t gonna do you no fucking good. Not with me. It’s best you stick to fear. Hope may feel like the beginning, but it will gut you in the end. “His lips brush my ear. “Trust me on that one. "
16 " I took you, hellion. You’re all mine. Only I get to say whether you live or die.”“You’re a monster,” she whispers on a shaky exhale.You have no fucking idea.I withdraw the blade and tuck it away. I brush a lock of dark hair from her eyes, tucking it behind her ear, my fingers lingering on the delicate curve of her bruised and sliced neck.“You’re right,” I whisper. “I am a monster.” Roughly, I grab her chin, forcing her to look me in the eye.“I’m your monster. "
17 " There ain’t many people out there who have my respect. Respect needs to be earned. Preppy’s got mine. The man might have a case of verbal diarrhea there ain’t no cure for, but he’s been through hell and back. He’s been tortured and brutalized the likes of which most folks can’t begin to imagine. Most men, the strongest of men, in both body and spirit would’ve caved after that.Not Preppy.Not Samuel Motherfucking Clearwater. "
18 " I’m desperate to give my body to the man who may very well be the one who takes my life.And right now, I don’t fucking care.Because in Smoke’s arms, I’ve come alive. "
19 " I wish I could hate you,” I whisper, feeling the world around me closing in more and more with each passing hour.“Me, too,” he responds, his lips kissing the back of my head. "
20 " It’s only fair that I break you,” Smoke groans, seating himself fully inside me. He looks me in the eyes. “Since you’ve already broken me. "