Caleb Quotes

“Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“You better have had a baby, killed someone, or slept with a pure. Those are your three options. Anything less is unsuitable.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”
― tarryn fisher, Dirty Red

“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind..... you'll see that. -Caleb”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“I'll do whatever I have to do to protect you. I'll lie, cheat, and steal to make you okay. I'll share your suffering, and I'll carry you when you're weighed down. I'll never leave you, not even when you ask me to. Do you believe me?”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“I cry a lot.'
'Yeah? Well I'm gonna change that.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“Let me carry you out. I'll never let you touch the ground. I was made to carry you, Olivia. You're fucking heavy with all of your guilt and self-loathing. But, I can do it. Because I love you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.”
― Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

“Maybe our souls touched underneath that tree. Maybe I decided to love her. Maybe love wasn't our choice. But when I looked at that woman, I saw myself differently.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging”
― CJ Roberts, Epilogue

“No, the next time i kiss you it'll last a long, long time. And then when we're done you're gonna realize being turned on is not about experience”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“She's mine. She always has been, she always will be. We've been running in opposite directions for the last ten years, and we collide at every turn. Sometimes, it's because we're looking for each other, other times it's fate.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I was not crying - eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry. - Caleb”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“We make love every single day — no matter what. She is the only woman I’ve seen that gets more beautiful with age. She is the only woman I see.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Olivia. I've lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn't work our way through it, and the third time - this time - I've lost her to Noah.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense."
"Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.”
― Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

“I’m sorry, Livvie, I really am. You kill me. Pepper spray? I’ve tracked you all over the world and that’s what’s going to stop me―pepper spray.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.”
― Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

“Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now he'd taken the last of it, the last of me. But who did that make me? An extension of him? Someone new? I didn't know. Didn't want to know.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“Stop your bitching, Nick. You should try being an immortal demon who’s lived since the dawn of time having to sit through this crap when English is not my native tongue, and if you think you’re fluent in it, buddy, I actually know what a gerund is.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

“People think what they want. That's what I've had to accept," he says. "I can fight it, but that's exhausting. I can feel hurt about it, but that's torture. Or I can decide it's their loss.”
― Jay Asher, What Light

“...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Calm down. I’m a demon, Nick. Hematite doesn’t like my genetics. It doesn’t mean anything other than I have really bad parentage.”
“Then why am I having flashes of you killing me?”
“What’d you eat this morning?”
Nick didn’t care for that answer. Not one little bit. “I saw it happen. You were choking the life out of me.”
Caleb rolled his eyes. “Oh yeah. That is definitely a figment of your overactive, over-Hollywood-stimulated imagination. I assure you. I don’t kill people that way. Takes too long. I’m not into torture. I prefer a quick death so that I can move on to something more satisfying.”
Strangely enough, that he believed. Patience wasn’t a virtue Caleb practiced. “You sure?”
“Dude, look at me. You think I’d have let the demons pound all over me last night so that you could escape if I had any intention of killing you? Really?”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

“He’s supposed to look out for you.”
“I do!” Kieran sounded offended. “You should be proud of her. Hart requested her presence personally at the Drake coronation.”
I closed my eyes briefly. We were doomed.
“You went to a vampire ceremony?” Grandpa asked evenly.
“He didn’t know?” Kieran asked.
“No, he didn’t.”
“Sorry.”
Grandpa vibrated with rage. “I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in my family!”
“It’s different now,” Kieran tried to assuage him. “I’m dating Solange Drake. They’re a good family.”
Grandpa went red, then purple. Kieran took a step back. I whacked Grandpa between the shoulder blades.
“Grandpa, breathe!”
― Alyxandra Harvey, Out for Blood

“I feel like you're always trying to sneak into my mind. You're like Peter Pan - always climbing in windows and causing trouble."

She scrunched up her nose. "Did you really just call med Peter Pan?"

"I've called you worse." I eased the car into traffic.

"A llama," she said. "I loved that.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“He'd learned the hard way that there was no future when all he could see was revenge. The only thing revenge had ever given him was a brief moment of satisfaction, followed by an empty abyss. He was through with revenge. He wanted to feel full instead of empty, loved, instead of feared.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark