Restitution Quotes

“My name is Kade Mitchell, son of Tobias Mitchell, and I will not be fucking silent anymore.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“I want your heart, every single fucking fragment that I’ve broken over the years. I have your past and your present, and I want to be a selfish asshole and have your future.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“The first time I saw you, I was yours. I’ll always be yours, Freckles. Our girl will be proud of the woman you’ve become. You’ll both always be my girls.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Because you’re going to be my wife. You’ve already taken my heart, my body, and my butchered soul, so you’ll take my fucking last name too.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“I’ll leave your hearing, so I can tell you when I win her back, so you can hear her moaning my fucking name. When I marry her. When she births my fucking children. And guess what? I’ll have all of that. You won’t. Because Stacey Rhodes has been mine since the day I fucking met her.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“No time for dramatics,” Tobias Mitchell says in a deep voice, standing above the dead body. He’s wearing the same uniform as his victim. He nods to the door. “Let’s go. The building’s on fire, if you didn’t notice.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Barry crouches down to Cassie’s corpse and checks her pulse. “She’s dead.” Tobias frowns like a child just kicked his shin. “Of course she’s dead. Are your eyes working? Her brain is splattered on the ground, you fucking idiot.” Barry mutters to himself then looks up at Kade’s dad. “I was just stating a fact.” “A useless fact,” he counters. “Any others? You want to tell me the sky is blue while you’re at it?”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“You are also my priority. I would have always hunted for you to the ends of the fucking earth, little one.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“You don’t need to apologise to me.” “Do you always do that?” he asks. I tilt my head. “Do what?” “Ignore your own demons to cater to everyone else’s? From what I’ve witnessed, you seem to run after those around you, be there for them, centre yourself in their trauma, and no one seems to do the same for you.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Our broken puzzle pieces are finally firmly in place, and they’ll never be torn apart again.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“An evil smile crosses Tobias’s face. “Because, son,” he says, raising both brows, “I have Bernadette Sawyer.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Un-fucking-hinged.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Kade Mitchell and Stacey Rhodes – the fifteen-year-olds who met by the pool twenty years ago – finally get to have their forever.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Eyes on me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Moya vechnost.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Don’t cry any more tears because of them. You’ve got it all out. Dry your eyes and keep your chin up. They don’t deserve your tears.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Even if I’m a bag full of trauma?” I smile. “I have my own bag. We can swap when they get too heavy and we need a balance”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Don’t be afraid of me, Freckles,” he calls, spitting out blood that’s leaked into his mouth. “This is for us.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“I won’t kill you,” he tells him in a bored tone. “I want you to live and know you can never see her beauty or touch her perfection. I want you to be helpless and unable to walk.” On the last word, he puts a bullet in Chris’s knee, and I close my eyes at the sound that comes from him. “I’ll leave your hearing, so I can tell you when I win her back, so you can hear her moaning my fucking name. When I marry her. When she births my fucking children. And guess what? I’ll have all of that. You won’t. Because Stacey Rhodes has been mine since the day I fucking met her.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“They want a war?” he says. “Well let’s give them one.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Little princess, this is for you.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“He’s like the sun shining into a ditch full of dead bodies.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Before anyone else, love yourself. You cannot give your all to someone if you aren't doing the same for yourself.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Survivors deal with abuse differently, and not everyone can speak up.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“She carefully takes my face between her hands, her pupils dilating more with every second. “I love you. I’ve loved you since we were eighteen. And I’ll love you until we’re old and grey and we’ve lived our whole lives together.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“You see that gun there?” he says quietly so the guard doesn’t hear, and I nod, frowning as he grabs it and shoves it into my hand. “If I hurt you, shoot me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“You should be scared of me. I might worship the ground you walk on, but you don’t have the faintest idea what I’m capable of.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Make it stop,” he says, begs, pleads with me. “Please make it stop. Please, please, please. Do you have my gun? Can I have it? I need to kill them.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“She’s pregnant,” Kade says, making it worse. “Congratulations, you’re going to be a father – if we get out of this.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Killing yourself isn’t going to make it all go away. If you jump, then it might be done for you, but everyone who”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution