Ember > Ember's Quotes

“I’m addicted to her smile, the way she touches me. The sound of her voice. How she says my name. The way her scent lingers on my clothes when I’m not with her. Everything about her feeds a hunger that can never be satisfied. I know it, and she knows it.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“Some of us will never know defeat. Others will never know victory,” Ryat goes on. “But what I can tell you is those who don’t try will never know what they are capable of.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“The air crackles around us, and it’s clear that I don’t need to set this car on fire when our chemistry is like dynamite and burns everything around us.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“What you’ve forgotten is that the heart beating inside your chest isn’t fucking yours,” he snarls. “It’s mine. And if my heart has stopped working, then pull that trigger, little mouse. Kill the rest of me. I’m nothing if I’m not the reason you breathe.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I don’t care if I need to set this world on fire until there’s no one left but you and me. The world will burn around us, and I’ll gladly live in chaos with you as long as the only person that is a danger to you is me.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I don't like bullies. What do you kids call 'em these days? Karens? Well, she was one of them. Except I just called her what she really is, which is a defective sperm that grew too much of a mouth instead of a brain.”
― H.D. Carlton, Where's Molly

“If a man ever calls you something you don’t like, I’ll fucking kill him. I’ll always respect your boundaries.”
― H.D. Carlton, Where's Molly

“It only takes one desperate generation to change history—even erase it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“the apostasy, or secession, as the Navarrians call Dad’s rebellion. Funny how people rename everything that makes them feel uncomfortable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“We cannot stop this attack; the plan is set in motion. Al-Qaeda, in the past three years, trained and executed the first parts of the plot and its fighters, the ones executing the plan, are already amongst us. They arrived in the past years with the large streams of immigrants to Europe and to the US.”
― William Archer, Al-Qaeda 2.0: The Upcoming Attack on the United States and Europe Unveiled

“But I’m begging you, Violet. Don’t offer me your body unless you’re offering me everything. I want you more than I want to fuck you. I want those three little words back.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“She’s the sun, the rest of us are just dumb rocks orbiting her.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“I have somewhere soft to land. Somewhere I can let the worst, bitchiest, most unlikable, sock-and-sandal-wearing version of myself show and still be loved.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love

“What a funny fear response you have, doll. When I frighten you, I can smell your arousal. I wonder why that is?”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“Years of torture and solitude will have you learn that anger is the safest emotion. It’s the strongest. It’s a fire that will keep you going in the dark.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“If you live in the dark long enough, you’ll forget what the light feels like.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“You’re a light in the dark, and I’ve been in the dark a very long time.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“She’s obviously a terrible person and completely unhinged. And I one hundred percent do not find her in any way adorable. Absolutely not.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“Pretty murder bird,” Morpheus says from the garden wall. Our gazes cut toward him as he pecks the last of the morsels off the stone. “Nom, nom. C is for cookie.” Morpheus gives three knocking clucks and then mimics the sound of the diesel tractor engine. Nolan’s eyes slide to the woodchipper and then back to mine, disbelief now mixing with the revulsion that still simmers in his face. “Did you name your woodchipper after the beloved Sesame Street character Cookie Monster and then teach a raven to beg for human snacks made from the people you murdered?”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“He’s just a guy. A completely psycho serial killer guy with a decent skin suit and muscles for days and some cute dimples.” I squeeze my eyes shut and turn to lean against the counter. “You should just feed him to Cookie Monster and be done with it.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“Fuck you and your skinbook and your murder dimples and your stupidly beautiful eyes. I won’t be swayed by a hot psychopath.” Then she would have plucked out his eyeballs, slit his throat, and exhumed all the bodies by herself. She’d know what to do with Sam and how to protect Arthur without getting caught. She wouldn’t need anyone’s help.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“But I’m as powerless as the sea is against the moon.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“I remember Mead smiling at Adam in return, but it never reached the lightless abyss of his eyes.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“We might have started as enemies. Two monsters who are missing their souls. But our shadows share a likeness.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“Somehow, his shadow is warmer than the sun.”
― Brynne Weaver, Tourist Season

“I’ve struggled with emotions since I was a kid. I felt alive for the first time when I had Stacey, and now everything within me is black. I’m dead inside.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“Thank God. I’ve faked enough orgasms with you to last a lifetime.” I gasp as Kade snatches me by the throat and pins me to the wall in a flash, his chest and grip holding me in place as his heavy breaths hit my ear. “I’ll tell Base to take my sister without us and prove just how full of shit that fucking statement is.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable