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Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1) QUOTES

Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1) QUOTES

1 " Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil you know.” I felt her growing inside me, bringing with her the insane idea that I actually wielded power with Caleb. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

2 " People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

3 " People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. Underneath, the whole world is drenched in darkness.

The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close, so that you could no longer discern where they ended and you began. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

4 " People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

5 " Somehow I'd still managed to go all retarded at the sight of some handsome asshole with a nice smile. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

6 " The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

7 " Like a Falcon, she needed the dark to understand who her master was. She would learn to trust him, to rely upon him, to anticipate what he wanted from her. And like any master with his salt, he would reward her for her obedience. He would be exceedingly firm, but he would also be as fair as he could be. He had notchosen the instrument of his revenge at random. He had chosen a beautiful submissive. And what was a submissive if not adaptable -if not a survivor? "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

8 " This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

9 " I wanted to cry for wanting to cry. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

10 " He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

11 " Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now he'd taken the last of it, the last of me. But who did that make me? An extension of him? Someone new? I didn't know. Didn't want to know. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

12 " the only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

13 " I was as real to him as he was to me and it struck me just then that I meant something to him. In whatever capacity he was able, I meant something. The irony of that epiphany made my gut twist. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

14 " For the first time in recent memory, Caleb wanted something other than revenge. He wanted the girl. He wanted Livvie.

He knew her name now, but it was the least of what he now knew. He knew all kinds of things about her--too much maybe. She wore shapeless clothing to school because she wanted her mother to love her. Her eyes were sad because she knew her mother didn't.

She had brothers and sisters. She felt responsible for them and jealous of them.

She was funny, and shy, but also fierce and brave.

Her first kiss had been a disaster.

She'd grown up without anyone to protect her.

And no one but Caleb had brought her physical pleasure.

Livvie was a survivor. That much he'd known, but what he hadn't known was what she'd had to survive. She deserved better. Better than them and certainly better than him.

He'd seen it in her eyes and her manner, but he had tried not to know why. He had wanted her nameless. He wanted to forget she had ever had a past, a history, dreams and hopes and all of those other things that made her ... Livvie. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

15 " Caleb was a strange person, cruel and inhuman; a monster, and yet, at other times, he seemed so capable of something like caring. He made me cry and scream and shake with fear and nearly a split second later he could make me almost believe he wasn't responsible for any of it. He could hold me and make me feel safe. How was that possible? "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

16 " I wrapped my arms around him and held on as hard as I could. He was my tormentor and my solace: the creator of the dark and the light within. I didn’t care that he would undoubtedly hurt me at any moment, right now; I just needed somebody to hold me… To tell me these exact words. Its going to be okay. It wasn’t of course, I knew that. But I didn’t care, I needed the lie. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

17 " For what it's worth Livvie, I never thought of you as a whore. And you are...the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

18 " If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

19 " You'll always be Kitten to me...Livvie. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)

20 " There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been attracted to that imaginary world. Each piece of work was attempting to describe the human condition, in all its good, bad and ugly glory. At first, it’d been an extension of my own life, strangely mirrored in this world of ‘fiction’. Each story wanted, no— needed—to reveal a human fragility, a human bondage which tied people to the things they did and to be the person they held in their heads. Those stories were something true and sometimes horrific but people were people and the parts didn’t just tell the whole story. "

― C.J. Roberts , Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)