Ruin & Rule Quotes

“Words are valuable. They’re the wealth of a soul.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“You’ll see that I was right and your heart beats for me. Mine, yours—they chime to the same beat. Wherever we end up in the world, whatever you do or whoever you decide to tie your life to, we’ll never be whole unless we’re one.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“Silence is ammunition, darlin’. Don’t give it up before you’re sure of the facts and know you can win.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“Your heart has stolen mine; two souls beating in time.
Yet you push me away-rejection a cruel slay.
I beg you to kiss me. Take me. Claim me.
Make me yours and put my fears at bay.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“Innocence doesn’t matter when ignorance is what people prefer.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“Age doesn’t matter. Family doesn’t matter. Rules don’t matter. Only you and I matter. And this… It feels right. Better than right. Meant to be.” He lost the ability to retaliate as my hands cupped him harder.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“I gave him everything that I was. I gave him all my troubles and dreams and flashbacks. I let him save me. And at the same time saved him.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action—righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn’t think we’d ever find.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“Oh God." I lost the ability to speak under such glorious torture. "He won't help you, Cleo. Might as well implore my name instead.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“To love a ghost so strongly that the man literally killed himself with heartbreak ought to be romantic. It wasn’t. It was just endlessly, terminally sad. And nonsensical. Especially because I believed I had the power to relieve his suffering.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“How could I deal with this new world if I didn’t know what skills I had to stay alive?”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“His voice bristled. “I’m sorry.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule

“Because when you’re around, I never think with my head, I only think with my heart, and it only knows one thing—how much it adores you.”
― Pepper Winters, Ruin & Rule