Salt Kiss Quotes

“Juniper berries are a superfood, which basically makes gin a cold-pressed juice,” he says. “I’m looking out for my health.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“The stupidly irrelevant way that he would raise a gun in my chest. I gave him my fucking Pop-Tarts.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“Hold still," "I can see the sky reflected in your eyes. it's quite arresting" Mark Page 57 chap 6”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“you need only ask, and i'll give you everything. Everything I can." Mark”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“party”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“I want him always to be talking in that voice, like he has plans that should terrify the fuck out of me. Whatever has been changing inside me for the last two months has finished changing. I need to be his. On my knees, on my back, humiliated, bruised, used, whatever he wants me to be, I want it too.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“The stakes are so much lower than they were in Carpathia, but it’s like my body doesn’t understand how to calibrate danger anymore. It’s like there’s either zero danger or it’s an existential fucking threat, and here in a snoozing Maryland suburb, my adrenaline is spiking like I’m about to attack an enemy camp.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“There is something alive about the hatred at least. A breathing inside the jealousy. When I first came to Lyonesse, I felt like a puppet of myself, a collection of traits without anything deeper to animate them: alertness, discipline, longing, regret. A shell of dried sinew and bone and no heart. I feel now. Even if it’s misery, obsession, jealousy, I feel them all, and no matter how awfully things have turned out, I can’t doubt that Mark had something to do with that.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss

“The curse doesn’t care. It’s used to being lonely, to aching for what it can never have. And if I’m alone in falling for her, then she’s made me feel not alone in so much else. Grief. Nightmares. Being snared by the dark gravity of Mark’s world.”
― Sierra Simone, Salt Kiss