Obsession Quotes

“Morally gray is not a word in our dictionary. Black is our color. Black is our song. Black is his love note to me.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“It’s okay to have a down day, sweetheart. But you must not allow yourself to wallow in your own sorrows. You let yourself feel whatever troubles you today, and then you pick yourself back up tomorrow and do what must be done.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Let’s see how deep that darkness runs, my sweet Savannah.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“I want to taste death at his fingertips.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“In this fucked-up relationship, we both know it would be the ultimate betrayal on his part to give in to his darkness. Maybe it makes no sense. Maybe it's toxic, sick, twisted, demented, evil. We're both broken. We're both damaged beyond repair by our pasts. Morally gray is not a word in our dictionary. Black is our color. Black is our song. Black is his love note to me.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Maybe it's foolish of me not to scream. But I don't. The scream that wants to cut through the night stays buried in my chest, tied down by the darkest desires of my psyche. Desires for destruction and carnage. Desires that whisper from the recesses of my mind, telling me how right this madness feels. How we're not so dissimilar, me and Robbie. We're both killers. Starved creatures of the night.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“I don't care what anyone says about Robbie or how monstrous they make him out to be; there's goodness inside him too. Goodness that calls to my broken parts like an ethereal melody in a haunted forest. So what if I lose myself? Maybe I'd rather disappear into the night than be endlessly adrift in the daylight.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“I can't promise I won't do the same to you, but I can promise to slay every fucking dragon from your past and bring their heads to you on a silver platter. I'm a monster, Savannah. So, let me do what I was born to do. Let me love you the only way I know how.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“See, that's the thing: darkness recognizes darkness. It transcends time and space to find the other half of its soul, like darkening, ominous clouds that gather over a grassy field. Sooner or later, lightning strikes and burns valleys to the ground. The evil inside me calls to hers. I'd throw away everything to coax it out of her.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“My heart slams brutal fists against my ribcage. I'm so fucking alive at this moment, and it dawns on me that I've been dead until now and never tasted the flavor of life. It is sweet and succulent, not to mention painful as hell. My chest can't contain it. I'm more scared than I've ever been-but not of him. Never him. What a fool that makes me.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“The real Savannah, the girl hiding behind those big, chocolate eyes, is anything but fragile. Maybe she learned early on to fake weakness, like certain animals who play dead to survive an attack. Though seemingly helpless, Savannah has sharp teeth. And I see through her.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Miss Knox, who was supposed to oversee this exam, turned another page in her romance novel, ignoring us all.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“I barely recognize the woman in the mirror. She’s a newborn but somehow ancient. I know her, but she’s also a stranger.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“My instincts are telling me to run toward danger.” His tongue darts out, doing a slow sweep over the swell of his bottom lip. Then before I can react, he strikes, snatching my hand.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“you lived in the shadows long enough, you soon called them your home.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Before I can stop myself, I visualize my body tied to his bed, helpless and scared, my clothes torn, while he hovers over me, covered in streaks of blood splattered across the stubble on his cheeks. “Such a dirty little girl,” he whispers, dragging the sharp blade in his hand down my chest, over the valley of my heaving tits. The knife slips beneath the torn fabric, and he slides it away from my breast, exposing my lace bra. “Dirty girls like you deserve to be punished.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“There are more ways than physical to carve open a mind. You think I don’t see you, Savannah? You think I can’t tell that a wisp of breath dances on your lips right now because you won’t dare inhale a breath.” I swear time ceases to exist when he tilts his head a fraction. His voice is a seductive whisper that trails like calloused fingers over my heart before gripping the organ tightly—both a threat and a promise of relief.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“He’s the flame I should stay away from, yet my fingers itch to reach out. My mind goes places it shouldn’t, like how his skin would feel if I traced those veins up his arm, skimming over the swirls of his tattoos and the soft hairs.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Thick and heavy silence wraps around my heart like smoky tendrils while Robbie drums his tattooed fingers on the table—fingers I imagine soaked with blood. Blue veins paint a roadmap up his forearms, the sleeves pulled halfway up. Everything about Robbie is a carefully crafted”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“How it licked across my skin like a trail of fire.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Pain makes us feel alive. More so than pleasure at times.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“It’s a big fucking deal, one our small newspaper can’t turn down. It would be foolish to.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“I can’t promise I won’t do the same to you, but I can promise to slay every fucking dragon from your past and bring their heads to you on a silver platter. I’m a monster, Savannah. So, let me do what I was born to do. Let me love you the only way I know how.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“No one gets to touch you, Savannah. No one gets to so much as imagine you naked and needy.” “You can’t slaughter everyone who fantasizes about me.” “Watch me.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“You have a choice, ma’am. I’ll gladly burn the world down for you. And I will, without a second’s hesitation. Now, the question is, do you want to burn it to the ground?”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Emotions are your greatest enemy when you’re fighting to survive. On the other hand, numbness becomes a welcome companion.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“I’ll give you my story when you trust me with yours.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession

“Not to mention her soft breaths that mix with the sour stench of death and carnage—my favorite things.”
― Harleigh Beck, Obsession