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“A man without respect for the law is not a man without respect for anything. All that intensity, that devotion, is channeled toward other things, mostly their people—the brotherhood, family, their women. You can’t experience anything like it until you’ve had it.”
“Pretty like a fuckin’ princess but smart like a queen.”
“Skittish one you got there, King,” he rumbled in a deep rough-edged voice. King chuckled. “She’s new.” “Yeah, to Entrance?” “To livin’.”
“You are such a rebel without a cause,”
“I got a lotta sweet to give if you promise to look at me like that every time I give it.” “Look at you like what?” “Like I’m worth somethin’ special. Don’t get that much and babe, I gotta tell you, it makes me feel like I’m king of my own fuckin’ castle.”
I just gotta corrupt you a little and, just sayin’, I’m lookin’ forward to that part.”
“I’m gonna show you how to live, if you let me in to do it.”
King was a man who could change my life, throw me into the deep end when I’d only ever kept my feet in the warm waters of the shallows.
“People judge everyone based on shallow crap: how hot they are, how rich and academically accomplished. It’s bullshit, because at the end of the day, the one thing everyone can relate to is the grind to get to that place. We all suffer, we all fucking grieve and sin every damn day. It’s that dark stuff that makes those characters real to us.”
Don’t push a man when he’s on the fence about somethin’. He’ll keep clinging to it ’til his dying breath if he feels he might land on the wrong side with the right push.”
“Never met a woman like you. Know I won’t again. You find somethin’ worth keepin’, you find a way to fuckin’ keep it. Not gonna stop, and just so you know, I got it that this could get you fired, that this could cause you embarrassment, but what I got to say to that is this: whatever pain and ugliness I bring you by bein’ with you, I promise I’ll bring you double that in sweetness and beauty. You hear me on that, because I may be a man without a normal moral compass, but I’m a man who makes a woman a promise, and I’ll die before I break it.”
“You’re a King who makes her want to be his rough-and-tumble Queen,”
“You are the king of all the fears that ruled my life, a man of ferocity and passion and balls-to-the-wall determination and endless, boyish enthusiasm. You crack the soul of life open in your palms and drink your fill. A man like that needs a queen by his side,”
