Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)

by S.T. Abby

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. —William Shakespeare

At such a young age, she’s seen some of the worst of the world’s depravity. There’s no magic in that. Only evil.

I could have prevented anyone else from getting hurt.

I was only 4-5, but any one of you could have helped me take him down. I see you all, and I will never forget your cowardice. You can't tell me there weren't other victims after me. That guilt is just as much yours as it is mine.

My mind is on auto-pilot, ruled by guilt and self-loathing.

“I’m so much worse and better than you. I’m the thing the monsters in the dark fear. And now I’m even the Boogeyman’s nightmare.”

She’s playing a man who has played the world. And she’s winning.

I hope they have fun with you in hell. You sentenced yourself there the day you targeted the only thing that makes me feel as though there’s still a soul inside me left to be saved. The only thing I love more than revenge.”

I watch with her as the Boogeyman dies by his own knife. At the hands of a woman. The hands of a victim. In a way, it’s poetic justice.

I’ve heard that time heals all wounds, but that’s not true. Falling in love? That’s what makes you forget your anger.

To do a great right, do a little wrong. —William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his own purpose. —William Shakespeare

“But maybe you’re allowed to give up vengeance for hope.”

Expectation is the root of all heartache. —William Shakespeare

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? —William Shakespeare

I kiss him for so many reasons, all of them tangled around one simple, innocuous little four-letter-word that holds more power than I ever imagined.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law. —William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. —William Shakespeare

It’s just…men are attractive but harder to trust than women,”

“Voltaire said, ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.’

I run my fingers through his hair, getting high on heaven. That’s what he is to me.