Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)

by H.D. Carlton

They may have made that rose powerless by clipping its thorns, but I will gladly show them a rose is still fucking deadly when it’s shoved down their throat.

That sigh. The backdrop to my entire childhood. It’s filled with disappointment and met expectations all at once. I never disappoint in disappointing her, I guess.

The narcissistic assholes never are. Somehow, they twist it in their head that the victim deserved it and whatever injuries inflicted upon them were their own fault.

God, why did you make me the way that I am? Next lifetime, can you not do such a shitty job?

God? Me again. We really need to talk about your life decisions when you made me.

When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.

"My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave.

"Sometimes the happiest people are the saddest," she says, reciting a common quote.