Runaway Queen Quotes

“The only thing I’ve ever wanted in my life… was you, prom queen, and now, I’ve got you. There’s no escape.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“He pulled me close and kissed my cheeks. “Don’t forget, prom queen. It’s better to die than do nothing.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“Sometimes we don’t have a choice in these things, Leo. Believe me when I say I wanted to come. If I could have come, I’d have run the whole way here. Also believe me when I say that I will never, ever leave you and your mom again. I’m here to stay. I missed you before I even met you.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“Your name is inside mom’s ring. She said that ring was for my dad. So… you must be my dad.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“I didn’t know what to say to that. Like always, he stole my words and my heart at the same time.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“To friends, old and new. To good health and many more dinners to come. To family, wherever you find it, no matter the distance or time apart.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“Okay. Turn off the lights and turn on the stars,” Leo said, his favorite sentence to say, as he snuggled in his comforter.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“It’s better to die than do nothing.” – Nikolai Chernov.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“His hand went around my mouth at the same time as his hard arm clamped across my stomach. Then, we were moving backward. It was Nikolai, I could tell. It was the way his strong hands held me effortlessly but didn’t hurt. It was the scent of him. Like coming home after being lost for years. Was there a twisted sense of relief in that? Yes, as fucked up as it was, I’d prefer the devil I knew.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“She hesitated. She was thinking so hard, I could practically hear it. It drove me crazy that she was full of secrets and I had no way to pry them out of her. If I couldn’t threaten them out, or scare them out; I had no idea how to find out what had really happened in the past. Had her father threatened her? Had she just decided to make a clean break from all the devilish men in her life, and my name was on the list? Had she stopped loving me? Had she ever really loved me in the first place?”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“The ring on her finger caught my attention, winking in the late afternoon sun. “Are you married?” No one had come home to save her from me last night, so I thought it unlikely. “No.” “Have you ever been?” “No.” “You better not be lying, prom queen. I’ll find out if you are. It would be easier for us both if you told the truth and gave me his name. Save me the trouble of hunting him down myself. I’ll only be angrier then, and he won’t go peacefully to the afterlife.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“Sofia De Sanctis. My ghost. My love. My greatest triumph and biggest failure. Her skin was like cream under my fingers. I couldn’t stop running my hand up and down her bare arm. It was dangerous. It might wake her. I didn’t care. Let her wake up to a dead man, dressed in black, with empty eyes, looming over her bed. She shifted in her sleep, rolling onto her back and throwing her arm over her head. I couldn’t stop staring at her. My hand fell to her face, and then lower, circling her neck. All the times I’d held her right there, her precious pulse fluttering against my palm, flashed through my mind. Now, I needed it more than anything. I needed the visceral proof that this woman was real. Alive. I circled her neck. Her pulse pounded against my hand with reassuring regularity.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“Sofia De Sanctis had turned her back on her rich, privileged life, and everyone and everything she knew, to protect our son. My son. She had let me torture her, bury her alive, and chase her down in the woods like a demon, to protect our son. She was no longer just the woman I loved and my obsession. She was something else entirely. Something so high above me, I could only worship at her feet, and I would do that, but first, I had to make sure I could protect my family.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen

“I have no other way of being, prom queen. Loving you is in my bones.”
― Mila Kane, Runaway Queen