Vanguard Quotes

“It was real. You were real. The only real thing I’ve ever had.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“I am falling in love with her. Free-falling, actually. I’m obsessed with her, can’t breathe without thinking about her, can’t sleep without reaching for her, can’t imagine a future that doesn’t have her in it. I’m plummeting. She’s become the axis my whole world turns on, and that should terrify me - does terrify me – but I only seem to welcome it.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“This.” His arm tightens around me. “You and me. This is the most real thing in my life, the only thing that feels like it’s actually mine.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“I see you,” she whispers. “The real you. And I’m not going anywhere.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“I don’t want careful. I want you exactly as you are.”
Something changes in his expression, something unguarded that makes my chest ache.
“You have me,” he says quietly. “God help you, but you have me.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“You can’t un-feel what it’s like to be touched by someone when you’ve been deprived of it for so fucking long.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“Beneath all my layers, all the real and all the fake, I’m just a desperate, hungry, terribly lonely girl who’s been forever denied what it means to be human.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“What do you want from me?” The words slip out before I can stop them.
He doesn’t hesitate. “You.” His voice is low, rough, meant only for me. “I want you, darlin’. With every fiber of my being.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“It’s complicated.” Just fucking stamp that shit on my forehead.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“Never wanted someone this much while wanting to destroy them.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“I’m not asking you to forgive me,” she says. “I’m asking you to fuck me.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“Mia moans on her first mouthful”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“There’s something almost meditative about breaking into a building you’re not supposed to be in. It’s like yoga…for people who are sick in the head.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“What can I say? I’m fueled by spite most of the time.”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard

“For those who make friends with the darkness while managing to find their light”
― Karina Halle, Vanguard