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“it’s that the worst kind of pain isn’t what we do to ourselves, it’s what the person your heart belongs to can do when he’s learned to hate you.”
― Lily White

“Real monsters don’t wear masks”
― Penelope Douglas

“Abuse can feel like love.”
“Abuse can feel like love…Why?”
Damon remained so still it didn’t look like he was breathing. He looked at the teacher, unwavering. “Starving people will eat anything.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Fear made us feel alive.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I need her to hurt me, because pain covers up pain, and if I feel one, I won’t feel the other.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“love…love tears out your insides and leaves you hollow, leaving you destined to live an empty existence until death.”
― Pepper Winters, Third Debt

“You either have my back....”

“You’re at my side....”

“Or you’re in my way...”

“Be Lilith, Never Eve.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“The role of the villain is only determined by who's telling the story”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Because he’s the one pure, beautiful thing untainted by ugliness,” he repeated his same words from the shower. “And we love him for it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Live for your love,” the judge said, “love your life, and raise hell.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“People hide in the dark. They quench their thirsts in the dark. They build their secrets in the dark. We’re more ourselves here than anywhere else. I get to be me...” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“What do you think was the only thing that made me keep breathing?” My tone hardened as I clenched my jaw. “In my brain, I reached for you. I never stopped reaching for you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“But you’re going to be fucking mine someday,” he growled. “Come hell or high water, Emory Scott. You’re my woman, and you’re going to come home to me every day and sit at my table and warm my fucking bed.” He kissed me. “And you’re going to give me a Will Grayson IV. Mark my words.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Damon Torrance was gifted at manipulating someone’s mind. Putting the right glasses over someone’s eyes to make them see the world how he wanted them to see it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“I’m not yours, Will Grayson. And I’ll walk, thanks.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“It took everything I had not to look at him, because if I did, he’d know.
He would know that I didn’t always hate him.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Love is not a noun. Love is something you do. Something you prove. Something you work hard to create. Love is not something that simply exists because you say it. Love is not a noun. Love is a verb.”
― Jay McLean

“Some girls fall in love and a boy catches them. He waits for them at the bottom of the cliff with open arms. And then there are other girls. Girls like me. We’re the girls in love with the boys who belong to someone else. We’re the girls in doomed love. When girls like us fall, there’s no one to catch us. Least of all that boy for whom we’ve taken the fall.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“You’re the girl every guy runs away from. You’re every guy’s nightmare, Salem. Because you’re the girl with too much love inside you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“Hell, I was her demon. And now I was wiping her tears and holding her close. I was no saint. I was the darkness that chased her. I was what haunted her dreams, I was her nightmare, and yet she held me like I was the knight that had ridden in on my white horse—she was right about one thing— the horse was white, but the knight was no servant to the king —he was fallen , and she’d singlehandedly resurrected him, not realizing something was very wrong.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Scandalous Prince

“Forgive me—” I whispered into the cool night air “— for showing you the knight, when the whole time, I was the wolf. Forgive me, God. Forgive me. Amen.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Scandalous Prince

“Even as I hate myself for it, I cling to him, my enemy. This monster who doesn’t hide in the dark. The one in whose bed I’ll sleep. My monster.”
― Natasha Knight, Unholy Intent

“In spite of everything, I am weak when it comes to Damian Di Santo.”
― Natasha Knight, Unholy Intent

“Always and forever,” he whispered.
“Until the last breath,” I murmured.”
― Shanora Williams, Until the Last Breath

“You don’t love guys like that. You get eaten up by them and you love every bite they take out of you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“I fell in love with him like dead leaves fall from the branch of a tree and rain falls from a swollen cloud. I fell in love with him like tears fall when you’re sad and like blood oozes out of your skin when you step on broken glass.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I fell in love underneath a tree.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Olivia, you can have any man you want. Why him ? Why is it always about Caleb ?" "Because...because I didn't need anyone until I met him.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist