Shooting Scars Quotes

“Such an angry little angel. Your wings are certainly dirty. They’re black.”

“Like your heart.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“True love doesn't have a sick desperation to it, and undercurrent of doom. People who burn that brightly still get burned in the end.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“I'd be there no matter what she chose, even if she wanted another lover, another life, I would still be there when she fell. When she wanted to run. When she wanted to come home.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“All for a girl. But she wasn’t just any girl.

She was mine.

And I was hers.

Until the bitter end.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“Will you burn with me?" she asked. "Or will you go free?"
I grabbed her face as the heat pressed in. "I'll burn with you.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“Even at her worst, she made me want to be a better man. To be good enough for the both of us.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“I know this pansy beat your f*cking @ss, American style.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“I don’t have a soul,” he said softly. “You make me feel like I do.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“There are fallen angels, too. Angels with dirty wings.”
― karina halle, Shooting Scars

“I looked like a hipster who broke his arm at a Vampire Weekend concert or some shit like that.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“Tattoos were self-expression at its rawest and most permanent form. They weren’t for one set of people or another.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“He’s made me believe that I belong with him, with this kind of life, that this is the best that I can get.”
“He’s right.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“Now how about you man the fuck up, put your big girl panties on and go get your fucking ex- girlfriend back.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“It's just, with someone like Ellie, it'll be really hard for her not to fall back into old habits. Javier was her biggest habbit of all."
The hole was opening, my heart threatening to sink in. I dug my fingernails into the palms of my hands and wished they were sharper.
"Camden," he said pointedly. "It would be Stockholm syndrome on steroids.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“He shut the door behind him and set about locking many dead bolts before finally sliding the chain across.
"Tough neighborhood ?" I asked. "I saw a girl on a My Little Pony bike outside ; she looked kind of nasty.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“I shook my head, trying to make sense out of what had happened. As before, no sense came. I completely lost every sense of right and wrong and good and bad. I became this black, suffocating thing, everything I feared in others. I became Javier. I became my father.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars

“This bullet can go straight through the couch."
He was right. Fuck Ikea for making such flimsy furniture.”
― Karina Halle, Shooting Scars