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21 " I know you can’t be broken. I’m still testing if you can be tamed …” Mara catches my thumb in her teeth, biting down. “You’re not tame yourself. "
― Sophie Lark , There Is No Devil (Sinners Duet, #2)
22 " She’s out of her fucking mind, and so am I. "
23 " It’s like he hates me, and I don’t know why. I don’t know what I’ve done. He used to kiss my fingertips and tell me I was the most exquisite thing in the world. Now he snarls if I even touch him … "
24 " Maybe because no one knows better than Mara what it feels like to be young, frightened, and deeply alone. "
25 " In so many things, there is no better or worse. Just differences. "
26 " Understand this, though,” I tell her, my voice low and cold. “I’ll do what I have to do. No one is going to take you from me … and no one is taking me from you. "
27 " I love you,” I say. "
28 " I will never tear you down to other people. I will never degrade you in their eyes. I want to build you up, do you understand that? "
29 " Now, instead of Christmas trees and decorations striking me as tacky, I want to find the most beautiful ones possible, so I can surprise Mara when she walks through the door and finds the house bedecked in soft, silvery lights. I want to see them reflected on her skin and hair, echoing the smoky color of her eyes. "
30 " We’re not negotiating. You need to learn to drive.” “What if I crash it?” “Then I’ll buy another one. It’s a hunk of metal, I really don’t give a shit. "
31 " humans don’t learn things all on our own. Someone has to teach us. It might be necessary for someone to believe in us before we can believe in ourselves. Unloved children are crippled because no one shows them the way. "
32 " At first it was against my will,” I tell her. “But now I’m all in. I have to have you. Even if it blows up my life. "
33 " Everything I do for her binds her closer to me. I want her dependent on me, so she can never leave. So she never even wants to. "
34 " I have to be around you. I’m addicted to you. You fuel me, you light me up inside. Just knowing you’re in the house enlivens me. I can’t go back to the way I was before. I’m afraid of it. "
35 " I think to myself that humans don’t learn things all on our own. Someone has to teach us. It might be necessary for someone to believe in us before we can believe in ourselves. Unloved children are crippled because no one shows them the way. "
36 " He saved me, and I saved him. Not just from Shaw, but from everything else in this world that wants to destroy us—the demons outside, and the ones within. "
37 " We’re wrapped together, twisted up. Not one snake but two, the black and the white. We are the same. And I like what we are. "
38 " I may not be Doctor Frankenstein, but I helped flip the switch on that particular monster.” “We’re the only ones who can stop him,” Mara says. “We’re the only ones who will. "
39 " Give me a little credit,” he scoffs. “Whatever else I may be, I was never a man who had to tear a woman down to shine bright beside her. If you’re not as good as me, then you’re no good at all. And when I saw you, Mara … I thought, this girl is really fucking good. I don’t want to hold you down, chop you down, diminish you in any way. I already know I found something special. Now it’s time for everyone else to see it. "
40 " It hits me so hard that I let out a groan. Mara touches my face, tilting it so I look right in her eyes. “I love you,” I tell her. “I know,” she says. That’s what makes me cum. Not the physical act of fucking—the emotion of it. Finally being known. Finally being understood. "