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The Villain (Boston Belles, #2) QUOTES

The Villain (Boston Belles, #2) QUOTES

1 " The thing is, you can't really rely on love. Which is why I intend to offer you something far more consistent. Commitment, friendship and loyalty. I promise to give you my protection, no matter the price. I will never turn our back on us. We will fall in and out of love many times, but I promise to always find my way back to you. To put us back together even when the temptation to break things off is too much. And when loves feels far away..."

He presses his forehead to mine, his lips moving over mine.

"I will bring it right back to our doorstep. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

2 " But what are villains, my dear wife, if not misunderstood heroes? "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

3 " You drive a hard bargain. Welcome to the dark side, Persephone. Leave your heart at the door. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

4 " Listen to me. The two most important decisions in our lives are not ours to make. Our creation and our death. We don’t choose to be born, and we don’t choose when or how we die. But everything in-between? That’s our jurisdiction. We can fill in the blanks as we please. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

5 " I wish you’d fall in love with me so hard you won’t be able to think about anything else. To eat. To breathe. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

6 " The angel on my shoulder was…well, currently duct-taped and gagged in the devil’s trunk. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

7 " I may have saved you from a bleeding heart, but your bleeding heart saved me. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

8 " Peopling was by far more exhausting than running a marathon. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

9 " But his ears were small, like my wife’s, and he had that look—the look that could make empires fall—that only Persephone Penrose had ever managed to hone. A look that disarmed me. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

10 " I died. The end. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

11 " He took my hand in his. Such a simple gesture, yet it felt as though he plucked the stars from the sky for me. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

12 " Hate is just love with fear and jealousy thrown into the mix. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

13 " …will break every bone in his body and reassemble him to look like a Picasso painting if he as much as touches a hair on her head… "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

14 " The Fitzpatricks have enough fuck-you money to build a dick-shaped statue the size of Lady Liberty. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

15 " She scooted next to me, wrapped in a gown that clung to her curves like I would if I wasn’t a hundred and one shades of messed up. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

16 " the pigs called—they wanted their chauvinism back. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

17 " Maybe something got stuck in his teeth." Hunter tapped his cards against the table. "Like, you know, feelings or something."

"Zip it." I warned.

"No. They're right. You're beaming." Sam frowned at me in abhorrence. "It's disgusting. People are trying to eat here." He dropped his sandwich onto his plate.

"Leave him alone. I think is cute." Hunter took a pull of his beer. "Kill caught a case of the feels, and there's no vaccine for what he's experiencing. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

18 " You're handsome when flustered."

"I swear, Persephone, I'm going to relocate you to your precious Namibia if you don't stop grating on my nerves."

"So now I annoy you constantly." Her blue eyes shone. "That's one, steady emotion. Twenty-six more to go! "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

19 " I know women are fond of battery-operated devices, but they’re never as good as the real thing. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)

20 " We are not Hades and Persephone, Flower Girl. Never were. I didn't drag you down a dark path.You pulled me into the light. Helpless, I followed. Blindly, I got burned. I am Icarus. I love you as he loved the sun. Too close. Too hard. Too fast. "

― L.J. Shen , The Villain (Boston Belles, #2)