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1 " You’re the most colorful fucking thing I’ve ever met, Gwyneth. "
― Rina Kent , Empire of Desire (Empire, #1)
2 " Maybe safe is what I should choose. Because who wants to be ripped apart with no hopes of ever pulling themselves together again? "
3 " You know when you’re happy but feel like everything will eventually turn into an epic clusterfuck? Yeah, that’s me right now. "
4 " I’m her husband. Put your hands on my wife again and I’ll break them. "
5 " And holy shit, if I thought his fingers were weapons of mass pleasure, his mouth is in an entirely different league. "
6 " I’m taking away your little angel, King, and she won’t be pure and innocent anymore, because I’m taking that away, too. I should say I’m sorry, but I’m not. I won’t apologize for what I’m about to do. I don’t know what exactly she is to me or where we’ll go from here. But I know one thing for sure. Gwyneth is now mine. "
7 " Are you going to let it rule you or are you going to bring it to its knees in front of you? Because those are your only two options, Gwyneth. It’s up to you what you decide to fill it with. Strength or weakness. "
8 " Fuck the way she looks at me. As if I'm a god with all the answers and solutions. As if I’m the only one who can make everything right. "
9 " For someone so smart, you did something so fucking stupid, King. You should’ve never entrusted her to me. "
10 " The thing about ambition is that it can’t be stopped, measured, or contained. There’s always something to do and a power to pursue. No matter which direction I take, there’s a goal to reach and a situation to conquer. However, ambition can’t be blind or else it’ll become destructive. "
11 " Isn’t it said that no worthwhile benefits come without sacrifices? "
12 " If you don’t stop flaunting yourself around, if you keep provoking me and don’t stay in your lane, I’ll be inclined to take action. I’ll swallow you down so fast, there’ll be nothing left of you, let alone your sarcasm and naïveté. You’ll stare in the mirror and not recognize yourself anymore. This is my last warning and the only courtesy I will give you. Stop, Gwyneth. You don’t know what the fuck you’re dealing with. So go back to college, to your safe boys and vanilla milkshakes and boring little life. "
13 " But I don’t want safe and boring.” I want you. I almost say that. Almost, but I don’t get to, because his next words knock the living breath out of my lungs. “You’re well and truly fucked, baby girl. "
14 " Once upon a time, I thought I’d gotten over him. Turns out, I’m still waiting for him to kiss me back. "
15 " Who the fuck are you?” “I’m her husband. Put your hands on my wife again and I’ll break them. "
16 " You told me once that reason is subjective. That means what you see as reason is entirely different from what I do. "
17 " vanilla milkshake "
18 " She has a way of worming herself into any armor, no matter how solid and apparently impenetrable it might seem. She doesn’t even use brute force. Her methods are soft, innocent, uncoordinated even. "
19 " touching her means walking through fire and knowing exactly how I will burn. "
20 " But what I like the most is him, and I want to engrave him in every cell of my body, take everything he has to offer, and make him all mine. A mortal trying to trap a god. Don’t all of those stories end in tragedies? "