A Song of Sin and Salvation Quotes

“a perfect loop. Never experiencing anything outside of the pink paper walls. She’s the picture of perfection to everyone looking in, but she’s alone. Now, as I watch her pretty pink tulle tutu spin around and around, I wish I could set her free, because then at least one of us would be.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“I’ve always wanted to be like the little ballerina inside the music box. Beautiful, graceful, delicate . . . everything I’ve ever been told I should aspire to be. So, it never made sense to me why the music she dances to is so sad. It wasn’t until I grew up that I realized it’s because she’s trapped, spinning endlessly in”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“To all the girls who were told they were to blame for the sins of boys, and to all the boys who showed them that’s bullshit.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“When this is all over, don't forget me and all the things we did. Please.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“Time passes as the party continues on behind me. Continues as if the world didn't just fall apart. I suppose that's what it feels like when a heart breaks. Like so does the world - a crack in the earth so deep it creates a chasm to the underworld.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“So I won't tell her. Then when this is over, I'll cry my broken heart out into a case of beer and I'll make sure that one day I record that song. The one I said I reminded me of her. But that's not entirely true because I wrote it for her. I'll record it and one day when she's done college or even ten years from now, she'll hear it on the radio. Maybe then she'll think of me and what we were for awhile.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“He's a sinner. He's turning me into a sinner. And I can't help thinking wildly that if James is going to Hell, maybe we can carpool.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“Maybe I want to be ruined.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“I finally know what I would say. What it is that I want. And that’s for someone to not demand anything of me.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“There was also talk of you stabbing someone. That—” I glance at the metal rings on his hands, the leather cuff on his wrist, the muscles that flex under the skin of his forearms and I have to swallow the saliva that pools in my mouth. “That you have a knife collection.”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation

“Eyes of a Stranger”
― L.H. Blake, A Song of Sin and Salvation