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1 " Because I couldn’t keep away from her, that much was becoming abundantly clear. So I’d just have to keep being her villain. "
― Caroline Peckham , Shadow Princess (Zodiac Academy, #4)
2 " Because you’re in my head all the time. You pulse through my blood with each beat of my heart. I live for every scrap of attention you offer me and suffer through every moment you spend ignoring me,” he said darkly, holding my eye the entire time. "
3 " Good. Because I’m not a better man,” he said in a low growl, his eyes full of shadows. “I’m the devil and I want you. I want you like I’ve never wanted anything or anyone. And I will fight to make you mine, no matter what it takes. No force in Solaria will rip us apart. "
4 " Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine. "
5 " I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately. “You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise. “I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering. "
6 " So what?” I snapped. “So I won’t let you ignore me, Roxy,” he snarled. “I’ll have your attention even if I have to take it without your permission.” “Why?” I demanded. “Why not just go after someone else?” “Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine. "
7 " You usually just get lumped with whatever emotion your subconscious wants to kick you in the teeth with on any given day. Look at me for example, every day I go to bed deciding to wake up perky and peppy, making friends with everyone and anyone I meet. And yet when the morning swings around, I’m still the same mean bitch I was last night. "
8 " You don’t have a fucking sex addiction,” Darius snarled. “Don’t I?” she asked innocently. “What other possible reason would I have for screwing so many waste of space assholes?” Her gaze flicked from him to me for a moment and I straightened my spine. "
9 " I’m gonna prove to you that I’m the better choice. You’ll fall for me so hard you’ll break bones. "
10 " You’re what I latch onto to bring me back from the shadows. "
11 " I’ll never bow to you,” I breathed as the cold stone at the foot of the throne bit into my skin. “But if you like me on my knees then there are better things that I can do down here than kiss your feet. "
12 " She is so…everything. Does she know how everything she is? "
13 " Neither do I,” he growled. “But when I see you, all I want is to lay claim to you. I want you to be mine and I know you never will be and it’s making me even more fucked up than I was to begin with. That’s why I hate you. Not because I’m supposed to or because my father wants me to, but because you represent every freedom I’ve never been given. It’s like you were designed entirely to taunt me and toy with me and crack me open and I won’t let it stand. "
14 " That he does my bubbakanoosh,” Hamish said, nodding firmly. “You remember what your Momma always said to do with men like that though, don’t you?” “Cut off their fingers then their dingers,” they said in unison and I snorted a laugh, sharing a look with Tory. "
15 " So this crystal is a promise from me that I’m yours. For now. Forever. Or till it all goes to shit, I don’t know which yet. "
16 " Because I’m not ever going to put my life on hold for a man. Especially one who doesn’t think I’m good enough to make the cut long term. "
17 " What I’d give for the whole world to freeze right now so I could steal a kiss. "
18 " What’s it like?” I asked curiously. “Finding your one true love?” Gabriel’s gaze softened as he thought about the girl who owned his heart and he smiled as he answered. “Like, getting hit with a truck and having it back over you several times while you lay bleeding in the dirt. "
19 " I think your problem with girls, or more specifically, girl,” Seth joked. “Isn’t that she’s an enigma or any such thing. It’s got more to do with you being an asshole. "
20 " Fuck you,” she snarled, pointing right into Seth’s face before aiming her finger at me. “And fuck you.” She turned to point at Darius last. “And fuck you up the ass with a rusty spoon. "
