The Oath We Take Quotes

“Shame on you for making us both feel like we were doing something wrong. Shame on you for keeping us from five years of happiness, and shame on me for letting you. I’ love your daughter. I’m a good man. I’m a loyal brother. I’m wealthy in my own right. And in your eyes, I’m not good enough for her. So, fuck you.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“I love her, brother,” Atom says. “Always have. But for the last five years, I’ve tried to live up to my promise to Butcher. Tried not to lay my hands on my president’s daughter like he asked, but she’s always been my queen.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“I don’t know if I can watch you in a relationship with another man, Ember.” The words come out more gruffly than I intend. I have to swallow deeply once they are out.
A tear spills over her lashes, and that single trail breaks my heart. “Then pick me, Hudson. It’s not hard.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“Both of us are torn. Stuck in this place where we can’t push each other away hard enough for it to be final, nor can either one of us step forward into the other.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“Reading about those men who’d burn down the world for their women, while the man I want won’t even talk with my father, hits a jealousy nerve so strong that I want to throw the book at the wall.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“Ember Deeks just offered me her heart, and breaking it broke mine too.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“She’s come home a woman.
A woman I could see myself building a life with. If she were anyone else’s daughter, I’d fight for a chance to make it happen because we love so many of the same things. Have since we were kids growing up in the shadow of the club
But, unless I’m no longer an Outlaw, something I’ve dreamed about being my whole life, I can’t be the man for her. And in no world would I ever be worthy of Ember.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take

“Fate can’t be fucked with. It’s predetermined before you’re even a twinkle in your old man’s eyes.
Destiny, on the other hand, is the sum of all the twists and turns and decisions you make in life.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Oath We Take