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I’ll send him a well-done card with a little note inside. A for effort. You didn’t make her come, but don’t worry, no one can. I ruined her for other men.”
fingers spread my nether lips.
“Your passcode is the date we broke up. Is that how much you need to remind yourself that you hate me?” “I do hate you,”
Scream how much you hate me. Henry didn’t hear you.”
I don’t want this from you. I’m not giving you any more from me.”
you’re an Aphrodite, Ella. Megan a Hera. And I’m a Shadow. I get to use you, and Megan gets to shut up.”
my hand will be so far inside your chest, your heart won’t beat without feeling my grip around it.”
You built a world without me and left me with no choice but to destroy it. We’ll build another one. I promise.
I prefer spring, when everything grows again. The start of something new. But fall matches my mood.
Pretending to be perfect when everyone thinks you are is doable. Pretending to be unaffected when everyone knows you’re a fraud is soul breaking.
Sometimes, the body knows before the brain reacts,
Everything terrible I do is for her own good. She just can’t see it yet. She doesn’t understand that what I’m putting her through is to help her understand that I’m the one she needs. I’m the one who will protect her from the terrible things that scare and hurt her.
I can’t have her where I want her if she has a choice in it.
“I would never hurt you. You’re my everything. You’re my heaven in this goddamned broken world. But I will hurt anyone you let near you, do you understand?
“Does it turn you on to see me hurt someone for you?”
Artificially sane separately, completely unhinged together.
“Your passion was dancing. My passion was you.”
I told you that I only—” “—make mistakes when you think they’re worth it,”
I still don’t want my heart back. Because I know its rightful place is in the palm of your hand.”
The masks we put on to survive shouldn’t fool the ones who truly love us.
“I’m so sorry for the things I will do to get you back.” “What?” “Please, forgive me for them.
of course, it’s at the kind of height people like me can’t even reach in their wildest dreams.
In a perfect world, my love for you would be easy. At least in this world, it’s worth it.
I was your secret in high school, and that is exactly what’s happening again. You just added who you’re hiding me from.”
There’s nothing like a man who knows you. Someone who knows the little things you like.
I not only watch stupid romance films, but the same ones over and over again.
No one will ever care like he does, and my heart is in trouble for it.
anxiety never sleeps.
This man fell from heaven and somehow chose to stay on earth for me.
“Go to sleep, woman.”
One pearl at a time.
The smell of love and trouble.
“This place is better than Hogwarts!”
We’re going to get found out. It’s going to be a terrible, tragic ending. But do I stop kissing him? Do I push him away as his tongue strokes mine and our hearts beat in unison? Absolutely not.
How do you ask a man who seems invincible if the woman he’s supposed to marry abuses him? It seems absurd.
“The point isn’t whether it truly hurts you or not. The point isn’t her size. The point is, she tries. She acts on her anger and hurts you.” “She can’t hurt me. I would crush her.” “But you don’t,”
I know your excuses by heart.
“Your dad was a nuisance at best, an abuser in reality.
“The things you feel can only be a fraction of my love for you.”
“When your heartbeat picks up, mine is already racing.” He looks up at me, pressing a hand against my chest. “When your lungs feel tight from the overwhelming love between us, mine are crushed.”
“When your mind begs you to let go and let it happen, mine is already far down the rabbit hole.
You will never love me like I love you, Ella. It hurts, and it gives me false hope. It drives me insane and pulls me back every time. You can’t possibly ever feel the same way. But I’ll take anything you give to me.”
I need to feel the pieces of my heart shattering and scattering into the wind.
what really gets to me is that she wants to make me believe she can live without me. It’s the delusion that she can move on. She can’t. She never will because I won’t let her. She underestimates my obsession, and she puts people in danger with that mindset. She puts herself in danger. Because the further she tries to run, the tighter her leash becomes. And the harder she tries to escape, the more creative I have to get to make her see I am her only option if she wants to live a peaceful life. She’ll tire before I do, I can guarantee that.
I have the mind of a schemer and the behavior of a saint. People trust me, and it makes it too easy to exploit them. The Circle needs someone like me.
victory is for the cunning, not the violent.
No one can win a chess game if the pawns know they’re going to be sacrificed, can they?
There’s always something terrifying about knowing who someone really is, especially someone who you have a codependent relationship with.
It’s fucked up, but it’s our kind of fucked up and that’s the way we love each other.
we all have that person, don’t we? That one individual we continuously accept back into our lives. The person we know will hurt us, but hope for the hundredth time will have changed. We all have our weaknesses, heart palpitating if we see a text from them after a long time waiting to have news. We melt when they give us attention and change our behavior to fit what they want from us in the hope that they’ll choose us this time. They come in all shapes and forms. Sometimes it’s a toxic crush. He’s not that into you, but he won’t let you go. Sometimes it’s a family member who calls only when
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