Piercing Crimson Quotes

“It was the man I saw in my closet. And he was... smiling”
― Maria M., Piercing Crimson

“Shane: "Our whole lives are in a mess right now, and I don't know how to fix it."
Alyssa: "It'll get better, I promise."
Shane: "You can't promise that...”
― Maria M., Piercing Crimson

“When you let your intuition go wild, it doesn't usually end well. But I only learned that later on.”
― Maria M., Piercing Crimson

“That final look into those glinting crimson eyes – so many that all I saw were numerous flashes as they swiftly approached the prey, never one in the same place – confirmed my true fear; I was a goner to the world. My life slowly descended out of me when one of the vampires reached forward with an arm, stripping me of my soul. With just one snap of his wrist, my mind went blank.”
― Maria M., Piercing Crimson

“I could hear the wind whistle behind me as someone swiftly moved away from me in a distance. I heard the autumn leaves crunch beneath his feet as the figure slowly retreated. I could have sworn that it was the red-eyed man from my past that couldn't live with just haunting my dreams - he haunted my life like a ghost lingering around me, his eyes burning like flames in every shadow he could find. But, I wondered, why me?”
― Maria M., Piercing Crimson

“I had stay alive, and if that meant pretending that I had knowledge of my ex-boyfriend’s whereabouts that would likely lead to his death, then so be it.

This was the closest I had gotten to finding Alex, and I wasn’t going to let go of this last shred of immortal in my life. Because if I did, I would likely convince myself that it was too good to be true; that it had only been a dream gone awry; and that the last three months were just a figment of my imagination.”
― Maria M., Piercing Crimson