A Collection of Souls Quotes

“I was the perfect tool of manipulation, built for deceit and complete with a hunger for immortal souls, but I would use these tools to hunt the souls of those who were already bound for hell.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“I look back every now and then and think, I should have known. He was too perfect to be anything but evil.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“I felt electric when he touched me. I’d had crushes before; when your body melts and tingles but this was different. It was like a magnetic pull. Every cell in my body pulled toward him. It was almost uncomfortable but I found myself craving another touch.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“The cracks in the ground opened wider like hungry mouths with jagged teeth. They were eager for the soul that sat disconnected and unprotected in my meager body.
This time I would let the fire have me.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“It was a place that would normally be afraid of, but now I had no fears of the dark. I was the thing in the dark.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“I hated and admired this hunter. I once gave him my heart and soul. Since then, I had given him more and more of myself, but I never forgot his true nature and what he had done to me.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“I learned that love wasn't a magical thing. It was something more like hormones and sensations. It was tolerance and patience. It was accepting one another despite our differences and forgiving each other even when the other didn't deserve it. Love, for Beau and I, was anything but easy. It boiled down to us understanding one another and learning to enjoy each other.
Eventually, I loved him like I breathed air.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“The downside of feeling again was that, along with compassion for others came the full realization of my feelings for Beau. I truly surrendered to my love for him; I let him in completely. It was the one thing that could hurt me if it went badly and it was the one thing I couldn’t stop.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“His voice was terrifying and seemed to scrape across my skin as if it were a tangible thing. Something inside me agreed, as if it were even possible to give something like that. I didn’t even really believe in a soul, but in that moment I could feel it writhing inside me.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“I didn’t know whether it was the wine or the night air that held its sway over me, but I felt alive. I looked up at Beau’s cloudy gray eyes and wondered what he was thinking. At the time, I imagined he was thinking what I was; that I was wrong about everything.
If love exists, this is what it feels like.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“As we flew down the highway I started to think seriously about what I was doing and what would happen. I felt Beau’s hand slide over mine, holding my hands tighter to his chest. It was then I realized that I didn’t care what was going to happen. I didn’t care that we had just left everything I knew or that we’d committed grand theft auto. It didn’t feel wrong to me. I felt like those moments were what life was all about; seizing the ones that make you feel alive and never letting go.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls

“Alyssa Montgomery was damned the moment she met Evan Beauman.”
― Jessica Marie Gilliland, A Collection of Souls