Skye Warren Quotes

#1. There was a rare form of security with a man who had broken laws just to be with me, a surety that he wanted my body, craved it beyond normal reasoning. And

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#2. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.

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#3. Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every heartbeat, every lash of the fucking whip? When you invaded my dreams, my hallucinations. I can't stop loving you, bella. I've tried. God help me, I've tried.

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#4. What a different world it would be if we walked around with signs that proclaimed the worst thing that had happened to us.

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#5. No fear. That's what I'd been looking for, and I'd found it. "Well,

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#6. I was left with half an obsession, one side of the deviant coin. Now I needed to reach out and touch someone. I needed to be touched. Hennessey

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#7. The hardest part isn't dying; it's surviving.

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#8. How dare anyone - how dare he - question his value? He was everything she could ever want in a man.

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#9. I don't even understand it myself. Almost every myth references love, betrayal. Heartbreak. Universal truths that I've read a thousand times but still can't comprehend. No story can explain this pain that feels too big for my body.

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#10. There was no good or bad, sometimes. There was just living and not living. A person had a right to do whatever it took to survive. I

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#11. The pieces line up, so ordered and polite. The battlefield before there's bloodshed.

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#12. She could see the worst parts of him, in the ugliness of his face and the degenerate use of her body. He showed her every dirty, unkind desire and God help her, she never told him no.

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#13. I didn't know how to be what society wanted from me. I couldn't change myself, not even for him. He

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#14. What, everyone likes Kool-Aid. It's a childhood staple.

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#15. Have sex in my office because those girls insulted me.

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#16. That's the thing about a knight whose armor shines, though. It's never been in battle.

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#17. You can have my body, I think. But you can't touch my heart.

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#18. If there was one certain victim in all this, it was my sanity. My

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#19. And I chose you. I had been wrong before. It was romantic, what he said, what he did. Even while he hurt me, I had his full focus, his complete attention. His care, like worship. His love, an obsession.

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#20. He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn't see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life's tragedies when their very unfair nature meant they had none.

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#21. You're fucking perfect. An angel. A sacrifice on a marble altar. You'll

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#22. The whole world had turned against him and in a way, he had cracked. He wasn't entirely right in the head.

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#23. He didn't have to show me that side of him. He could have dated me as himself, had sex with me as himself. He even could have whipped me as himself, if he'd just told me he was into that BDSM shit. I would've done it. But

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#24. But one thing I'd figured out about labels early on: naming something didn't actually help you fix it. That was really all psychology was. It catalogued mental diseases, made neat little charts with symptoms and checkboxes. It couldn't cure a damn thing - least of all me. Lance

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#25. Like he'd been desperate for me. Like he'd taken me. "From

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#26. But sometimes we do sick and twisted things for the people we love.

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#27. But I didn't hold up my end of the bargain." He takes another drink. It looks so natural when he does it. "What bargain?" "To do bad things," I say seriously. When your life is as controlled as mine, you need to plan these things. Tonight is supposed to be the night.

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#28. The only way you could hurt me is to leave." He

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#29. I can't afford to feel sorry for myself. I can't afford to break down, not when I don't know if I'd be able to put myself back together again. "I'm fine," I assure him.

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#30. I saw you, I wanted you, I took you. You want me to fucking apologize for that?

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#31. I learned an important lesson then: criminals always make a mistake. Always. If

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#32. I want to fuck you so hard I'd bruise you. I want to make you bleed." "Are you always such a romantic?

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#33. Samantha, love. What makes you think I'd let you leave?

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#34. That was one of the things he loved about me, my resilience. And one of the things I loved about him - his ferocity. The way he took what he wanted, and he wanted me. Turning

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#35. The choice isn't mine." "You're right. It's mine. And I chose you." He

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#36. Would you rather I fuck a hundred other women the way I'm supposed to? Or would you rather I fuck one the way I want to?" I

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#37. You and me against the world,

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#38. The better question was, what was holding us prisoners?

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#39. Your mouth feels so good. I can't wait to fill it with my cock." My

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#40. Pain sounded the same, all ages and races.

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#41. I don't send people to do my dirty work. If I want to beat someone to a pulp, I'll do it myself.

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#42. Truth is, I never planned to live very long. In this job, there's always a bullet out there with my name on it." I

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#43. He wasn't an animal. He was the most intelligent, complicated person I'd ever met. He may not be good or virtuous, but he was human, flawed and powerful. And I cried because he needed me too.

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#44. of the scorpion and the frog? The frog carried the scorpion on its back as they crossed the river. The scorpion stung the frog, and as they both were drowning, the frog asked the scorpion why he'd done it." "Because I'm a scorpion,

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#45. You're innocent. And I'm going to ruin you.

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#46. I could rationalize anything, even my own murder. It was a twisted sort of love, but it was the only kind I knew. People

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#47. We're all the epicenter of our own wars.

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#48. They knew there was no innocence left to corrupt - just a hollowed out space where my soul should have been. I

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#49. My dream wasn't to be a princess in a castle. I wanted to be Persephone, claimed by the god of the underworld. Except that was the thing about getting captured; it wasn't up to me. I

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#50. Don't you see? I can't ever be normal again. Never be the kind of man who can give you a real home - " "I

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#51. he questioned the wisdom of choosing a place where the windchill sucked his dick into his body and dried out his balls.

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#52. I have to believe that I'm doing this for a reason. Have to believe that it will be enough. There's no one left to save us except me.

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#53. I'm interested in the truth, but the stories tell us so much about the people throughout history as well.

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#54. It's not only the myths surrounding chess. Chess itself is a myth, you know? A game of hierarchy, of war. It's a story that people have been using to explain complex concepts for eons. Mathematics, yes. Geometry. Business. Philosophy. Even love.

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#55. But I'd know the truth. It took more strength to stand beside someone you loved, even when they were wrong. Especially

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#56. My heart clenched at the show of protectiveness, of possession. What would it feel like to have someone love you like that? To have them know all your worst secrets and want you anyway? "We're

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#57. I love your sweet voice. I want to hear everything you can tell me. But not right now. Now I need a good little whore to use. You can do that for me, can't you?" He

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#58. I remembered once thinking how much it said about a man whether he liked to fuck a woman in the pussy or in the ass.

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#59. It felt like dying, but the part that really hurt the most was coming back to life.

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#60. Because I can," he said simply. "I don't need another reason." It

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#61. A slightly perverted adventure of questionable consent, but beggars like me couldn't be choosers.

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#62. I'm not the kind of girl who needs gentle. You aren't the only fucked-up person here, you know." "You

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#63. I succumbed anyway, drifting in an inky ocean and lulled to sleep by a killer.
My killer.

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#64. Sometimes I think history isn't really what happened. It's how you look at it." I

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#65. Sometimes you could take comfort in a lie. You could nurture it and hold it close to your heart. Right up until it turned on you.

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#66. There's only one thing I'm going to call you. Mine.

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#67. Psychologists were such voyeurs. They got off on true-life confessions, and then expected us to trust them. Not likely. Grabbing

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#68. I turned in his arms, blindly, gladly. God. All I'd ever wanted was someone to keep me. To want me, even knowing my faults. Like everything I'd ever sought out myself, with peeling paint and uneven edges and a tendency to fall apart. All I'd ever wanted was to be loved. I

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#69. I wouldn't mind going crazy if it meant I didn't have to face this choice again. This betrayal. Except I wasn't the one being betrayed. I was the one doing it, and that hurt so much worse. I

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#70. Reality was being alone and afraid. Reality was standing underneath a pounding spray of hot water but knowing I'd never really be clean. The

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#71. Did normal people secretly yearn to be deviant? I didn't know, but I could no longer pretend.

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#72. I can't give in. Giving in means living in the Labyrinth, losing, dying here. It means letting go of the string that's my only way out.

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#73. You were a priest. Of all people, you understand forgiveness." Something

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#74. Are you going to rape me?" "No. Not until you ask me to." Then

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#75. Neither my mother nor I had acknowledged it at breakfast, as if even the mention of passing time would crack the fragile votive that ensconced us. And now, I would shatter it.

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#76. Something far more intimate than sexual intercourse. We'd told each other the truth. Oh, it had been tentative and framed with doubt, but we'd done it.

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#77. You're meat when I've been fucking starving my whole life, so fucking accept it. You're mine. Mine. Got it?" I

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#78. So damn beautiful. You look like a goddess. Like a warrior. Like you could slay me and you do. Just looking at you ruins me. I love to look at you. I could look at you lying spread like this forever. Open to me, wet and flushed - forever and never grow tired.

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#79. While other children had backed away from white vans, I'd looked at them with longing. I wanted to be special enough to be taken. I wanted to matter that much. "Just

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