Ash on the Tongue Quotes

“If you want to burn the entire world to the ground and leave it as nothing but ash, I’ll start the fire. If you want to kill every person who ever hurt you, I’ll be your weapon. Wherever you go, I’m with you.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“I would have killed him for you, Aubrey. I would have torn his throat out with my teeth.” Phoenix gently bit against the curve of my back, and I squirmed, my breath hitching in my chest. “Our first kiss would have tasted like his blood, and you would have known that he was dead. I…” He paused and pressed a kiss where his teeth had just been. “I would never let someone hurt you and live.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“I’d split him open and carve out every memory in his chest until there was only room for me. I’d eat his heart while it was still beating and give him mine to fill the hollow in his chest.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“This could still be ours. And fuck—” He grinned as he stepped forward, looping his finger around the edge of my collar before tracing my lower lip. “If you’d really wanted it then, I would have taken it for you. I would have taken this entire place. Now… then… The rain doesn’t matter, Aubrey. I’d still burn the world down to get you whatever you wanted.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“It was the first time I knew having a heart wasn’t worth it, because having a heart meant knowing what it felt like for it to break.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“Bishop pulled his tags from around his neck when he saw the rabid, dropping them over my head with a smile that should have warned me something was wrong. His eyes were sweet when they looked at me, and his lips were soft when they pressed against mine. It was probably because he knew there were so many of them we weren’t getting out of there—probably because he knew I’d die to keep him safe.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“Hard from chasing me? Hard from biting me? Hard from catching me?”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue