Twisted Pawn Quotes

“I would choose hell with you over heaven with anyone else, any daay of the week.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“I’d walk through fire every single day for you, Tierney.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Like you needed to hear it to know it to be true. It’s always been you. There was never anyone else. You completely dismantled my life, and still, the brightest moments of each of my days were knowing you were there, lurking, watching, yearning.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“To the ones who never stopped believing”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Everyone had a guardian angel. Mine just happened to be my stalker.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“What a curse it must be, sweetheart. To be such a divine creature, so utterly seductive, and yet unable to feel a goddamn thing.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Let me love you. Show me every jagged, ugly piece of you, and watch me stay anyway. I will stay. But you have to let me.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“I would choose hell with you over heaven with anyone else, any day of the week.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“To remind me that the world could be heartachingly beautiful, despite all the ugly things it harbored.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Do we have a long drive?” I prodded. “Please just shut up and let me be romantic for once in my fucking life.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“You hurt me. Not just then. Today. Tomorrow. Every day. Your mere existence makes it hard to breathe. I have to live every day with the fact you didn’t choose me. And I can’t stand it.” He flicked the visor up”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Don Vello thought Achilles would do well as the don of the Ferrante clan. But that was before. Before he found out about his son’s mortal weakness. It came in the form of a copper-haired girl. The daughter of a mediocre Irish mobster. A thoughtless, reckless, pointless thing. Tierney Callaghan. The twisted little pawn was his Achilles’ heel.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Crying felt like giving her soul a shower.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Living without you was no life at all.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“I’d saved her that day, and I would save her life all over again. Because she was mine. To control. To ruin. To obsess over.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“She didn’t know it, but it was the first time he’d felt a loving hand. Slowly, he leaned into her palm until he rested his entire cheek on it and closed his eyes.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“That no one will ever take better care of you. No one will devote their entire fucking life to you the way I do. No one will go against their family”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“I loved you long before I even met you. You came to me in a dream when I wasn’t even ten yet. With your red hair and bright eyes and indomitable spirit. And you bewitched me. When I entered your room all those years ago”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“He finally did what he promised he would all those years ago. He destroyed me.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Tell your dick to stop harassing me”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“And Lila wants my sister around," Tiernan pressed on. "They're close."
"Do you expect me to make every decision in my life with your wife's preferences in mind?" I ground my teeth together.
"Naturally." Tiernan narrowed his eyes. "I think the entire world should bend to her will.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“He was the monster from the closet I’d always hoped would sneak into my bed.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“I wasn’t prone to panic attacks anymore. I’d buried my past so deep inside my head, I no longer recognized it as a part of me. But whenever I did get them, they were bad. Achilles used to help me when we were younger. Hug me extra tight. Talk me through my emotions. “Tell me five things you see. Four things you hear. Three things you can touch. Two things you can smell. One thing you can taste.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Hold on a minute. I’m wrapping up something. Carpe DM, amiright?” Enzo chuckled at his own stupid joke. “Seize the text.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Oderint dum metuant. Let them hate as long as they fear.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Luca, my older brother, the heir apparent, and the Dick of Monte Cuntsto, stood in the foyer. “What, pray tell, the fuck?”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“I needed to remain calm if I wanted to come up with a plan. Smoke. I should smoke. Or kill someone to take the edge off. No. Enough killing for today.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“For even the greatest of warriors… Surrendered to love.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Everything turned black”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn

“Sure, she wasn’t the most talkative via text. But you could really feel the love shining through each word.”
― L.J. Shen, Twisted Pawn