Between the Devil and the Sea Quotes

“So set on hiding behind your bravado. But that's okay. I'll strip you of that too. I'll pick you apart and leave you bare until all you have left is me to keep you warm. Until you can't recall which pieces were yours initially and which ones I've sewed into your psyche. I'm going to leave traces of me everywhere, baby. You wanted to be wanted?" He brushed his mouth feather-light against his. "Careful what you wish for.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Shadows can’t survive in the darkness, baby. You’ve tried your best. You’ve been trying. You know better than most that shadows are nothing in the pitch black. But in the light, they come alive.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“What's wrong, baby? It finally hit you you've become the property of an actual psycho? Were you just throwing that word around before to be cute? It didn't work. It just pissed me off.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Going to shoot me in the heart then?”
“Depends.” Shade tilted his head, “Do you have a heart?”
“Want me to get a note from my doctor?”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Eventually, you could escape the torment from other people, but if the bullying came from within? You were trapped.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Because I’m twisted, Detective. I intend to own you, body, mind, and soul. I’m well on the way to the first and the second. The third is a little harder to achieve but I’ll get there, I promise you, I will. And when I do, when I have you lapping at the palm of my hand, attached to my heels like my true little shadow, it’ll be all the sweeter knowing you knew what I was doing the whole time and yet it happened anyway.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“I didn’t want to like it, but I did. Kind of like how I didn’t want to like you, but I do.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“He’s a killer.”
“You’re not hearing me,” Shade reiterated. “He’s mine.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“He liked who he was.
That didn’t mean he had to be fond of how he’d gotten there.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Life was too short to waste energy worrying over what other people thought of him. It was too short for him to waste energy thinking about what he thought of himself.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“I just…I wish I didn’t want to be wanted so badly.”
“Everyone wants to be wanted, Shade.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Everyone had baggage. Nobody was perfect.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Our demons aren’t mean to destroy us,” Apollo found himself saying, voice dropping low and husky, losing the carefully crafted upbeat tone he was always so careful to keep.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“Shade Yor hated what he was, not the fact that he was a Chitta, the fact that he was a broken one. He hated the migraines and the constant fluctuating emotions that made it impossible for him to ever pinpoint how he was personally feeling.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“And if I tell you I hate your guts and want to stab you in the eye?" Shade goaded, only to grimace when Apollo's reaction was to laugh.

He bit his bottom lip, working it between his teeth as if taking a moment to calm himself down before finally replying in a smoky voice, "Gods, that's so hot, baby. Say something else."

Shade made a face. "You're sick."

"I'm a serial killer," he stated plainly.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“He’d asked him to make it feel good.
Not, “hey, let’s take this downstairs” or “no thanks, I just stabbed a man with a screwdriver, I’m not in the mood”.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea

“The last time they’d had an easy, normal conversation like this where he hadn’t needed to pull proverbial teeth from the detective’s mouth first had been before he’d kidnapped him.”
― Chani Lynn Feener, Between the Devil and the Sea