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1 " You would have to be half mad to dream me up.” -Lewis Carroll "
― E.K. Blair , Echo (Black Lotus, #2)
2 " He’s the one who holds all the power here. He could easily destroy me or make all my dreams come true, but in order for me to find out which, I have to let go of my control, something I’ve never done before. It terrifies me to hand all the parts of me over to him and trust that he’ll take care of them. "
3 " He's my sadist, and I'm his masochist. We're the reflection of each other's monsters. "
4 " Like I said before, the truest part of a person is always the ugliest. But I’m ugly too, so you’re not alone. "
5 " my bleeding heart. I want to crawl inside of his skin and drown myself in his blood. I want to swim in his marrow. "
6 " We’re tear-stained savages, sharing a single breath of life, death, and love. "
7 " I wish for frozen time, forgotten sins, and never-ending love. "
8 " Bruises fade. Blood dries. Scabs heal. "
9 " People are bound to get hurt in our journey for happiness. "
10 " My name, it’s Elizabeth. And I assure you, I’m no tart. "
11 " Everybody has secrets, everybody lies, and everybody cheats their way through life for self-fulfillment. We wouldn’t do it if we felt sorry; we do it because it’s our human right to seek happiness. "
12 " ...pride is a faulty wire that will ultimately burn you. "
13 " Sometimes we have to fall to know how to stand back up. Sometimes we have to hurt people to recognize our flaws and to see that we need to better ourselves. "
14 " You didn’t break me. You can’t break something that was already broken. "
15 " But I trust in my faith that we are descendants of rectitude. That each of us, no matter how bad we may think ourselves to be, the core lining of us is threaded in holy fibers. "
16 " He’s still warm, and like I’ve done my whole life, I selfishly take comfort from him. I’m nothing but rot, using Pike, even in his death, in an attempt to soothe myself. "
17 " How he’d piss on the mattress and shove my face in it, force me to finger his ass while he’d beat himself off. "
18 " Nina, I lied about one more thing. When I said in my vows that I would love you till death do us part, I wasn’t being honest, because I doubt death would be enough to make me stop loving you. "
19 " I rip myself open and let the rot fall onto Declan’s lap as I reveal my twisted childhood to him. "
20 " I’ve just sliced through my deepest scar tissue and reopened the wounds of desecration. "
