“Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.””
“Then tell me why every time I look at you I feel like an addict desperate for their next fix,” he whispers, his mouth almost against my own. “That I feel like I am drowning but then I see you and I can finally breathe. I literally crave everything about you, Madeline Peters.””
“She might not even know my name yet, but I know one day I’ll be making her scream it.””
“Hold on to the sink, Princess, this is going to be rough.””
“Archer watches them leave before he turns to me and smiles. “There is nothing quite like a bit of hate sex to make life more interesting, right?””
“not since the esteemed and pompous Mayor Hugo Peters decided to fuck his secretary on the side, which just so happened to be my mom.””
“Well I didn’t see your sister anywhere tonight, Peters, so I had to settle.””
“With God’s permission the enemy has sent poison and deadly dung among us, and so I will pray to God that he may be gracious and preserve us. Then I will fumigate to purify the air, give and take medicine, and avoid places and persons where I am not needed in order that I may not abuse myself and that through me others may not be infected and inflamed with the result that I become the cause of their death through my negligence. If God wishes to take me, he will be able to find me. At least I have done what he gave me to do and am responsible neither for my own death nor for the death of others. But if my neighbour needs me, I shall avoid neither person nor place but feel free to visit and help him. Luther: Letters of Spiritual Counsel, ed. T. G. Tappert (London: SCM Press, 1955), 242, from a letter of 1527.””
“Sometimes we fall in love even though we know we can never have that person, and it’s not their fault for not loving us back, it’s ours for believing they ever could.””
“He is good, the kind of man that was made for her, a true fucking angel. Yet our girl fell for the devils instead, and now she gets to live in hell with all of us.””
“Oh you’re such a good fucking girl, Bex, you come so fucking good for me, don’t you?””
“Killian owns my body, Ezra owns my mind, Aiden owns my heart, and all three of them own my soul.””
“Three deadly men who create carnage and chaos, who burn bridges and slay monsters, both better and worse than themselves, and all three of them belong completely and utterly to me.””
“All three of my Crows need to learn that I may have had my wings clipped, but I am still capable of flying, and I need to learn to do it without them.””
“Women are always seen as weak, helpless creatures. Like ants being burned under a magnifying glass, because some piece of shit decided it was their turn to suffer. Yet men could never endure the things we have to. In fact, they get angry at us for trying to do anything but submit to them, and somehow we are considered the emotional ones. They think doing that makes them stronger, smarter, but all it does is create a drive in us. A fire that starts to fester from deep within until we are the ones holding the magnifying glass, and unlike us, they scream when they burn. They don’t suffer in silence, or run away, they thrash and fight because it is their right as a powerful man to do so. That is, until they create a powerful woman. A tip in the scale they never wanted yet can’t erase because it was their actions that did it. It makes for a strange world, don’t you think?””
“I would be happy for all of us to fall if it meant that she got to fly.””
“Do you ever wonder what it would be like to just die? To just end your life and not have to endure the fallout of anything anymore? There would be no more hiding under your covers every morning to prolong another day, no more smiling until your face hurts while you pretend to be perfect, and no more pressure weighing down on your chest until you feel like you might explode. You would just be free.””
“Aiden’s fingers grip my chin, snapping my head back to him. "Don't look at them, look at me." His command forces my pussy to spasm around him as his possessive glare renders me speechless. "You may be ours, but they know deep down you are mine.””
“You take it like a good girl," he grunts into my ear. "Just like I knew you would. So tight, so fucking wet, so fucking mine.””