Chaos at Prescott High (The Havoc Boys, #2)

by C.M. Stunich

But people who kill other people are murderers, right? Villains. Only a villain can truly stop another villain. There is no room in this world for heroes; they only get in the way.

He who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. Anne Brontë was overlooked in her time. I’ve stolen her words. You will not steal mine. I’m not afraid of thorns; I will pluck the petals from your rose. Even if I have to pay the price in blood.

there's no use going back to yesterday; I was a different person then.

“You have to find happiness wherever you can, whenever you can, because you never know when you might be sailing into a storm.”

I don’t know how to help. That happens sometimes, when one broken person tries to lean on another. We’re too rickety to keep the other standing.

Sometimes, when you meet someone, you just know they’re going to change your fate. For better or worse.

one monster always recognizes another,”

When glass shatters, it cannot be fixed. You can collect the pieces, but your hands will bleed after. There is no putting those little shards back together. They will forever remain dangerous fragments of a thing that used to be.

It’s not as if I enjoy doing violent things. No, it’s that violent things are necessary. You can’t create order without a little chaos. You can’t stir Havoc without a little pain.

I walk through the dawn without fear because I know that I am the thing in the darkness to be afraid of. There’s comfort in that, being the monster under the bed instead of the person inside of it.

You can’t change the past, but you sure as hell can dictate your own future.