Forbidden Flesh Quotes

“I first saw her at a party my sophomore year, trying to beat up her cheating boyfriend, I was amused. I wanted to kick his ass, but I wanted her more. I was filled with guilt because she was sixteen. I shouldn’t want a girl that young.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“In the quiet shadows of our solitude, we found each other, seeking the part of us that was missing. I vow to be the keeper of your secrets and the partner of your soul. I vow to love you beyond the final breath of stars, in the spaces where darkness whispers its truth. When night falls and the world sleeps, you are my love, and I promise to love every part of you. Where you forget, I’ll remember for us both. If you get lost, I promise to bring you back so I can love you harder and longer until we both rest peacefully on earth.” He slides the ring the rest of the way. “Forever in your embrace.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“I tracked Rose for you because she is your only living family, and I got her a scholarship after she applied ten times when she was seventeen. Rose has an ugly past, Melody. She was sent to foster care and then got a break with a family, but they all died on a trip to visit her here. Rose was adopted like you were, but in her case, it happened twice. The sister Rose thinks graduated, died, and she was sent to foster care at seventeen.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“Rose is your biological sister, but the sister she thinks graduated died.” My heart breaks. “How?” “She was in a car accident with her parents, and none of them survived.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“way to deal with the trauma.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“You were pregnant, Melody. You lost the baby, and the younger you took over.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“He wants the younger you to fall in love with him the way the older you already is.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“You have DID, or multiple personality disorder. You have an alter. I’m not an expert, but in a nutshell, you have a younger version of yourself and an older version of yourself. The problem is you don’t remember what the younger one does when the older one is present, and vice versa.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“You were with all of us the other day. You don’t remember because the Melody that was with us was the older version of you.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“She doesn’t know her brother sent her to a school full of predators. He thinks convincing me to grant her a scholarship is based on his being part of the outer ranks of the consortium. He thinks it grants her immunity. He doesn’t realize you have to be born into one of the founding families or promise to be a member of the Order. He thinks she is safe here.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh

“After Zack and his friends orchestrated my expulsion from Ohio State two weeks ago, falsely branding me as the "crazy ex-girlfriend" who stalked him, I knew I had to leave.”
― Carmen Rosales, Forbidden Flesh