Dirty Angels Quotes

“You have me, my black heart and my dirty soul.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“You must feel your soul is dirty then.” He gave me a wry smile. “Oh, my darling. No,” he said, opening the French doors for me. “I don’t even have a soul.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“She needed to appreciate the art of violence, the beauty in fear, the fragility of her own life.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“My bed was where we held our exorcisms. She brought me peace. I brought her fire.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Luisa was on her knees on the bed, naked, my 9mm in her hands and aimed right at me. I automatically had my gun pointed back at her. The sexiest Mexican standoff I’d ever been involved in. “What are you doing?” I asked, taking a cautious step toward her, not lowering my gun for a second. “Leaving,” she answered, her eyes hard. She was distracting as all hell, her tits and pussy and that gun. I don’t think I’d ever been so turned on so quick and in such an untimely situation. “It doesn’t look like it.” “I’m going to ask you nicely to let me leave, and if you don’t, I’ll shoot you.” A grin broke out across my face. My god, she couldn’t be more perfect. “If you shot me, you’d kill me,” I said, taking another step. “Then who would make you come all the time?”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Sex needed to be a little rough and crude to balance out the elegance. A touch of tasteful violence goes a long way.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Because I want to destroy beautiful things before they can destroy me.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“My darling. You’re going to be my undoing.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“I’m merely branding you,” he said. “Don’t make it sound so ugly.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Your face never looks better than when you’ve got a gun in your hand and money under your ass.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“I’ve killed some of the funniest fuckers I’ve ever met.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“You’re not like a relative of hers or something?” I cocked my head. “No. Though she does carry my name.” He frowned. I could almost hear the rust in his head as the cogs turned. “It’s on her back,” I told him. “Where I carved it.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Because life is a game and we’re all just trading cards. We play the right hand to get ahead.” I studied the smiling, ignorant face of Sal as he stared at his bride. “Death stops the game. It’s too final, too inflexible. Death is viciously stubborn.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Rubbing a clit to completion and sawing off someone’s foot seemed to use all the same muscles.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their desks and give orders.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Luisa,” I said carefully, looking into her shining, desperate eyes. “You can’t save me.”
She smiled, letting out a caustic laugh. “I don’t want to save you,” she said, bringing her face closer to mine. “I want to join you.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“I wanted to break you,” I murmured against the blood. “I wanted to destroy you, ruin you. But you would not break. You will not break. Why won’t you?”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“But I saw nothing in her except this fire that burned deep within her eyes. I wanted to taste that fire on my lips, I wanted to fuck it with my dick. I wanted to feel it in every way I could. I wanted to bring the fire out of her.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“I also clung to the archaic, and perhaps slightly naïve belief that everything happened for a reason. I hadn’t cheated death so many times, I hadn’t had my heart ripped out, my soul lost, my family murdered, my future trampled all for nothing.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“You’ll have all the power. You’ll have everything.” “And yet all I want is you.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“Because the past makes you who you are. I want to know why you’re this way.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“The saying goes, if you love something, let it go. I always though it was better to just shoot the damn thing so it'd never go anywhere.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“They would not break my soul. They would not see my pain.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“There was something kind of nice about operating out of the safe house—it was basic and simple, like camping for kingpins.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“the dead make lousy deals.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“There is no pain, Javier,” I assured him. “Not anymore. I want you to finish your name. I am more yours than I am Salvador’s.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“You’re bad.” “You love that I’m bad.” She smiled serenely at me. “You know I do.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“I see,” she said blankly. “Sometimes it’s horrible to be right.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels

“He wore a mask of elegance and indifference, his unusually handsome features taking on the appearance of a sculpture. But I had no idea what the artist was trying to say: Here’s a man in denial? Here’s a man without a soul? Here’s a man who will build empires and legacies, whose pride shaped the land? Or here is a man who for once in his life, doesn’t know who he is?”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Angels