Voracious Quotes

“She’s like my own sunrise. Beautiful. Perfect. She fills a part of me that’s been empty and dark for as long as I can remember.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Are you going to be my forever, Freckles?”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Hey, Freckles.” I bite my lip and screw my face up as my ribs burn, taking a deep breath before continuing. “I’m so sorry. I’m so fucking sorry for not knowing what you went through or giving you a chance to explain what happened. I should have heard you out. I should have stayed. But you need to listen.” I wince and pull the phone away, so she can’t hear my groan of pain. “They know who you are, and what we were. They’re going to come for you. Please. Please, baby, you need to run. Run, and don’t you dare turn back. Get away from all of them. You… you hear m-me?” My eyes close, and my phone slides out of my hand, but I quickly grab it. “Please hide, please.” My vision goes dark, and the tremble in my bones stops. “I n-never stopped loving you.” My heart is fucking sore, but I need to get this last part out. I know I’m dying. But the only thing I’m worried about is her getting the fuck away from those evil pricks. “I will… will always lo-love you, Freckles. Go, live your life and be free. Meet someone who can tr-treat you ri-ight. For-for-forget me.” I can’t hear anything, not even my heartbeat. “Pl-please for… forgive me. B-Be safe and ha-ha-happy. I love you. I…” The phone slides again, and I have no energy left to finish my sentence, but as long as she knows I loved her, that she meant the world to me, that she is fucking special and deserves everything that makes her happy – then I’ve said all I need to. A hand touches my face, but I can’t see through the blood in my eyes from the gaping wound in my head. Stacey? Is that you? Mum? But it’s Bernie’s voice in my ear. Faint, but enough that I can make out what she’s saying. “Oh, silly me. Did I forget to mention Stacey fled the country? New phone. ID. Everything. You’ll never find her, but guess what? I will.” She wipes my eyes with a cloth, and I can just make out a medic hovering over me. Archie lowers himself beside me as I try to drag air into my punctured lungs. “I did some digging and was able to lift some messages between you both – and her nickname. Freckles?” He laughs, and blood drops from my mouth as I attempt to move, to get up and snap his neck. “I’ll carve each freckle out of her skin.” “I’ll k-kill y-you.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“It seems she has no idea how much I’m obsessed with her. Not just with her looks, but her heart, her fucking soul.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“We have an emergency announcement. Reports say that Tobias Mitchell has escaped his institution this afternoon and is currently at large. The murderer and psychopath was given a life sentence over twenty years ago.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“My soul is shattered and broken, and I lose all the pieces, unable to glue it back together.

Look at me now, my little princess. Daddy's gone, and he's
never coming back." - Kade Mitchell”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Because I love you. I’ve been in love with you for ages – it’s been all I’ve thought about. And I keep falling more in love with you every single fucking day.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“He’s the son of Tobias Mitchell. He doesn’t need help.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Kade: Run and hide. Unless you want everyone to witness me fucking you? Having an audience won’t stop me – I’ll take you in front of the entire party.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I choose who I love, and I choose you”.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“She’s like my own sunrise. Beautiful. Perfect. She fills a part of me that’s been empty and dark for as long as I can remember. Maybe I am falling in love with her. Should I tell her? Would that scare her?”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I can’t wait to see Stacey beat the shit out of Cassie.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Your cum is leaking out of me,” she randomly tells me as she takes a picture of our boarding passes. The group of grannies nearby give us a horrifying look. “No, I’m serious. When I sneezed? Boom.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Make them go away, Freckles.” “Make what go away?” I manage to ask. “The voices.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“What is forever if it’s not with him?”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I think if I ever took my last breaths outside, I’d like to be able to see the moon.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Sit next to me in the car ride home.” She hums. “Why?” “So I can hold your hand.” I shrug and press my mouth to hers. “Or your thigh. Whichever is more accessible.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I need to see her. I need to hear her voice. I need to touch her skin. I need to know this is real, that I am real. Her hair is dark. Her lips are pink. Her freckles cluster over her skin. She has tattoos that I drew for her when I was a teenager.
She is... She is...
What was I talking about again?
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Maybe if I die, I'll reincarnate into a dog. Stacey likes dogs. She'll cuddle me. I like her cuddles. Or maybe I can haunt her - make sure she doesn't meet anyone else.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Shut up.” I shut up.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them. Save him. Save her. Save them.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“My therapist said to talk – always talk. Staying silent and in your head just invites the bad thoughts inside, with no one to keep you on the right path.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“You’re doing so good, Freckles,” I say, kissing below her ear as I thrust harder. My voice is shaky, but I keep praising her. “Taking it so fucking well.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“She cried when she opened the little dancer charm for her bracelet and held my hand while we got matching tattoos – a design I’d worked on for weeks. Our initials intertwined and distorted to make them unrecognisable, with the words so small and vine-like, not even Stacey knows that they say “I choose who I love, and I choose you”.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Let’s assume Kade does get his hands on me,” he says as he follows me with our bags. “Would you help him, Stacey?” I throw my head back and laugh. “He’s the son of Tobias Mitchell. He doesn’t need help.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Barry said he can hide me – get me a new identity and a new life. I could come to America.” He’s silent, and then he says, “You’re going to annoy me by visiting every day, aren’t you?” “If I take him up on his offer, then yes.” “I’d rather spend a year back down in confinement.” I smile at his joking tone. “I think we’re becoming friends, Tobias.” He lets out a disbelieving laugh and hangs up on me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“It’s kind of pathetic how my heart skips a beat over her willingly wanting to spend time with me. The excitement I feel that she’s sneaking away from her friends, sneaking around mine and sliding in beside me in my sleeping bag is unmatched by any thrill I’ve ever had.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“She smiles and goes back to watching the movie, and I watch her. I don’t think it’s even a case of being in love with her anymore. Is there an emotion that’s stronger than love? If not, I’m creating one. It’s like a mixture of love and not being able to breathe unless she’s around – thoughts that run wild wondering what she’s doing, where she is, if she’s thinking of me. It’s the butterflies that flutter like maniacs when I know I’m going to see her soon. The Stacey Rhodes Effect.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“The Stacey Rhodes Effect.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I throw my head back and laugh. “He’s the son of Tobias Mitchell. He doesn’t need help.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“It’s moments like those – this – when I try to figure out if my dad ever felt this way about my mum”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious