Cruel Malady Quotes

“The curious thing about emotions is this: they allow us to judge from a morally gray perspective that places matters of the heart and our deeper connections and values above banal laws.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Disempathetic - where a psychopath has a restricted circle of empathy for those closest to them. In other words, it's possible to develop, a deep emotional bond or connection for another person, if only limited.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“We accept the choices that wove our fate together. Alex chose to love his monster. And I chose to stay in my Wonderland with my dark prince.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“There is a little depravity in us all that craves to wander into the darkness.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“We are lovesick villains.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Friends, like enemies, can rarely be trusted, and plotting against the couple helps Alex and I stay ahead of them. Everyone needs a rival, after all. Rivalry keeps us sharp, prevents tedium.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Given the right motivation, we can justify almost anything.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“And fiends like Alex and I are in fact detached from the larger world. We had to create an existence of our own, governed by our own logic and rules, an existence we share only with one another.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Loneliness is disease that will wither your body and mind far more ruthlessly than any physical illness. Alex was alone. That was truth of his incurable malady.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Loneliness is a disease that will wither your body and mind far more ruthlessly than any physical illness. Alex was alone. That was the truth of his incurable malady.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“The greatest love stories are born of fire.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“I'm the man who burned his life down for you. I'm the man who will take a life without question if it means keeping you safe, and I will have no measure of guilt or regret, because I'll stop at nothing to keep us together.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“There is no one else like you, Blakely. You're that rare. You'll never be able to live an ordinary life, simply because you're extraordinary. That kind of significance is isolating. But we don't have to be alone.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“This is what it feels like to be loved by the villain.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Because that's what she's suggesting. That I'm some sort of enchanted psychopath and Alex is my Prince Charming. We are not a fairy tale. We're a horror story.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Gray matter is psychopathic or non-psychopathic. There are varying shades along the spectrum.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Passion is a complex beast" she says, her voice resolute. "It can present in many different forms. Anger, fear, desperation, vengeance, obsession. Love." Her gaze traps mine. "And the tricky part is, it's usually a combination of all.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“I am a god. And she is my creation. She is my beautiful monster.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Giving a person power over you to break you. This is what I find to be the truest measure of love. Utter surrender.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Some look for love in flowers and sweet professions of adoration and devotion. Ours is not sweet. Ours is not naive. Ours is sick and cruel love born in a lab. Violence and obsession are only a measure away from passion, and our depraved passion owns us wholly.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“I've never understood the big privacy deal in relationships. The understood rules carved in stone. I feel like it was an invention of men . . . A way to keep us complacent, ignorant. Because before that rule, there wasn't a woman on the planet who didn't have her privacy invaded by every man in her life.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“There are two kinds of empathy: cognitive and emotional. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand what others are feeling. Emotional empathy is the capability to feel what others are feeling.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Vengeance has a scent, and it smells like Blakely.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Blakely is a Justice Dealer.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“A person with a psychopathic disposition doesn't have the same kind of fears as the average person.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Hybristophilia . . . a paraphilia where one is attracted to dangerous men, such as serial killers.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Dirty Dozen scale - a psych eval of the twelve most prominent traits to determine if a person fits the dark triad. Machiavellianism. Narcissism. Psychopathy.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“The world is full of my kind. Check your top CEOs and entrepreneurs. Chances are, they're a psychopath. They're at the top because they have little empathy for others to hold them back.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“Vengeance is my ethos.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind

“I'm a shameless hedonist. Maybe partly due to the nurture aspect; my mother is a hedonist who raised me with nice things. Maybe partly due to the nature aspect; I have a thick shroud blanketing my feelings.”
― Trisha Wolfe, Cruel Malady: A Necrosis of the Mind