The Cruelest Kind of Hate Quotes

“Loving you fucking hurts. It hurts in the best way. Every time I look at you, it feels like my heart’s going to burst out of my chest. And fuck, I’d die without a single complaint if it meant that the last thing I ever saw was you.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Dear God. This woman is probably the most terrifying person I’ve ever met.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“You couldn’t handle my bite.” Something in him changes. It’s fleeting. And thanks to being up close and personal with him, I can see how blown his pupils are, how the brown from his inner irises have somehow widened in diameter underneath the harsh, recessed lighting, drowning out the previous green. “Wanna put that theory to the test? I love a girl who bites.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Gage—” “I don’t want to see you hurt yourself anymore. But I know that’s easier said than done, so I’ll be here to help you heal. I’ll be here to hold your hand when you feel like you want to harm yourself. I’ll be here to love you and your scars on the days that you can’t.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Gage, I love you,” I tell him before the tears start to repopulate on my waterline. “I love you so fucking much, Cali. More than you’ll ever know.” It’s never just a “you too” out of convenience with Gage. It’s never anything less than him hand-wrapping and gifting me the stars, the sun, and the moon. He didn’t take my broken pieces and cover up the cracks to magically fix me. He saw them, glued them back together, then let the light shine through those incredible fissures. He turned scars into stars. His lips are over mine in the blink of an eye, tasting and feeling like home. And when he pulls back just slightly, only allowing space to whisper to me, I know I’m going to crash right back into him. “And I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“step there. Though I didn’t think I’d need to since you’ve lived here for years.” I successfully climb the last step standing between me and my glorious, non-chemical-smelling bed. “You’re really mean, you know that?” I grumble. She makes a face. “I’m not mean; you’re just dumb.” The silence ironically speaks for itself. “Ohhh. I hear it now,” she says. “As my primary caretaker now, you have to be nice to me. That includes no name calling or insults to my intelligence.” “How can I insult something you don’t have?” A roguish grin quirks up the corners of my lips. “Every time you make a hurtful comment about me, I’ll be keeping track of how many orgasms you owe me.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Calista Cadwell loooves me. She also likes my cheesy compliments. And my jokes. And my kisses. Getting head trauma was so worth it to hear her admit that.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Of course I’ll be your girlfriend.” Gage lights up like the city of Las Vegas at night, a gigantic, gum-showing smile pushing back his cheeks, dotting dimples, and forming complementary eye crinkles. He pumps his fist into the air. “You said yes! Oh my God. I can’t believe…” He stops himself after he notices the absolute bewilderment on my face, and then he clears his throat and lowers his arm. “I mean, I knew you were going to say yes.” “You’re an idiot,” I laugh, but the excitement in his voice is like a soothing balm on the scars of my heart. He’s the one shining halo of sunlight breaking through an everlasting tempest, allowing me a circle of dryness amongst an unrelenting downpour. “Yeah, but I’m your idiot now,” he emphasizes. “Hear that, everyone? Gage Arlington is officially off the market! And he’s in love with Calista Cadwell!”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“You’re my everything, Calista Cadwell. My morning, afternoon, and night. My beginning, middle, and end. My life doesn’t make sense without you in it. I wake up for you, Spitfire. I breathe for you. My heart beats for you. It’s always going to be you, no matter where we are in time. It’s always going to be you, even if we’re oceans apart. It’s always going to be you in whatever universe we find ourselves in.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“She grabs me by the shoulders, spins my back toward the bed, and throws my body onto it. Granted, it’s more like a shove, and I don’t know how she manhandled all one hundred and ninety pounds of me, but she did, and it was hot as fuck.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“My heart’s always this fucked up when you’re around. You make me so goddamn crazy that I can never think straight when it comes to you. You’re just…you’re perfect. So insanely perfect that you should come with a warning label.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Cali, I’m sorry. I’m just…I’m selfish. I don’t want this to end. I don’t want to return to a life where I don’t know you. I’ve foolishly been thinking that if you let me in, I can have you all to myself. But it’s destroying you, and that’s the last thing I’d ever want to do to you.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“GAGE: I called you. CALISTA: Yep. It rang. GAGE: Why didn’t you answer? CALISTA: I’m busy. GAGE: Doing what? CALISTA: Ignoring you. GAGE: Ha. You’re talking to me now. CALISTA: You’re right, Gage. Let me put EVERYTHING I’m doing aside and focus my full attention on you. GAGE: Thank you. I deserve it.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“HORRIFYING CONCUSSIONS AND HEARTFELT CONFESSIONS”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“The only name you’re ever going to moan is mine.” I can feel her pulse palpitating under my fingertips. The smallest, expertly placed pinch making her heart thump like a kick drum. Her life in my hands for a change. “And if he touched you, I would fucking kill him.” “Because you want me,” she finishes, staring directly into my eyes, pools of sapphire melting the very legs I’m standing on. “More than anything in this world, Spitfire,” I finally confess.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Un nom magnifique pour une fille aussi magnifique que le paradis lui-même,”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Cal, he’s hot as fuck. And that’s coming from someone who isn’t straight.” No! Argh. Why couldn’t she say that he was a hideously deformed monster? Hadley’s not one for sugarcoating, either. She’s had plenty of opinions about my exes in the past, which is why they’re exes. I avert my gaze from the haunting picture, pasting on a rictus grin. “He’s fine.” “He’s better than fine. This guy could run me over and I’d thank him.” I’ll run him over instead, free of charge.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“HERE LIES GAGE ARLINGTON: BELOVED TEAMMATE, TALENTED HOCKEY PLAYER, SELFLESS SON SIMPED TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN AND WENT UP IN FLAMES LIKE ICARUS”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“I hate that I know his last name. I hate that I hate-stalked him after our fight. I hate that he’s shoved his way back into my life even though I’ve tried to squash his memory like the loathsome little cockroach he is. It’s a cruel kind of hate too. Maybe even the cruelest.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Move out of the way, or I’ll break your foot when my car backs over it.” Dear God. This woman is probably the most terrifying person I’ve ever met.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“From the parking lot to the rink, I’ve had plenty of time to gather an arsenal of insults for the douche in front of me, and I’m ready to send those suckers flying like bullets from a machine gun.”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“Theme Song: Greedy – Tate McRae Kill V. Maim – Grimes Chrome Hearted – Jaden Hossler Shameless – Camila Cabello Hypnotic – Zella Day Sweat – Cash Cash (feat. Jenna Andrews) Effortlessly – Madison Beer Let You Down – NF Skeleton Sam – LVCRFT self sabotage – Maggie Lindemann End of the World – bludnymph Sand – Dove Cameron Agora Hills – Doja Cat Got Me Obsessed – Jade LeMac cardigan – Taylor Swift Save Myself – Ashe Ghost – Justin Bieber Siren – amelia milo Don’t Deserve You – Plumb Dynasty – Miia Out of the Woods – Taylor Swift Better Off (Alone, Pt. III) – Alan Walker, Dash Berlin & Vikkstar miss u – Josh Makazo”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate

“SIMPED TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN AND WENT UP IN FLAMES LIKE ICARUS”
― Celeste Briars, The Cruelest Kind of Hate