Ravage Quotes

“The female wrapped herself around my heart like a warm blanket. It beat with the hope, with the surreal feeling, that she knew what it felt like to be me. She knew loss and grief. She too harbored a scarred soul.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I love you unconditionally, and I will not break. You can be who you need to be with me. You can dominate me, possess me, and own me. Because I want you and accept whatever that comes with. I want to love you and want you to love me back, so that we both are never alone again.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I have never before been free to choose.” He paused; then, with a deep flush to the apples of his cheeks, he added, “But I chose to share my very first kiss with you.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“He watched me, his breathing heavy and strained, when I whispered, “You have stolen my first kiss.” A flurry of feelings swarmed in my stomach. Loss and pain warring with delight and lust. I didn’t know what to feel, I didn’t know whether to feel happiness or betrayal, until Valentin threaded his fingers between mine and countered in a hushed voice, “And you have stolen mine.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“You are not nothing. You are everything to me…”
“You have stolen my breath,” I whispered.
… “You have stolen my heart.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I’m going to steal another kiss.”
A wave of heat crashed over me and I replied, “Good.” Valentin went to move in when I stopped him with a hand on his chest.
He immediately stilled and frowned. “Zoya?” he questioned.
Swallowing back any nerves trying to creep into my heart, I said, “I want this with you.” Lifting my head to move into his personal space, I added, “I want you, Valentin, to steal the rest of me.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I was content to lie in his arms.
I was content to comfort the monster.
Because this monster deserved my care.
He needed to be loved.
By me.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“Ice-cold chills ran through my body as I stared at this little soldier beneath me, slight but with a heart of steel.
Lifting her head, she pressed her forehead to mine and said, “We are different. Me weak and you strong. Me a Georgian and you Russian, but our broken hearts are tired and old. Our spirits are low, though not broken. But our souls, though thoroughly tested and hardened through pain, are resilient.” Her lips twitched, and she added, “They are the same.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“My skin pricked at the understanding in her voice. She’d spoken to me. She hadn’t talked at me or through me or commanded me. She’d talked to me. Like I was someone worth talking to. Like I was human. Not a killer beast.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“You have me, Valentine. I am not going anywhere. I’m here for you, with you…in love with you.
…”You’re mine? You belong to me?”
Smiling though the emotions wrapping me in their hold, I nodded my heart. “Yes, I am yours.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“Valentin’s forehead rested against mine, and inhaling a shaky breath he confessed, “I feel alive.” I stilled at these heartbreaking words; then he added, “I feel like yours.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I believed you to be a monster … But now I see you are just like me … You are in pain. Your life has not been your own, is still not your own … Just like mine.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“Then he whispered, “I have lived eighteen years not as my own. I have had no choices, no free will. I have tortured, and I have been tortured in return. I have given pain, and I have had pain thrust upon me.” He paused, then added, “I have been fucked, and I have been forced to fuck until I could barely stand. But I have never given a kiss, nor had a kiss given to me.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“My life has been one of hardship. When you too have walked through a thunderstorm you understand, through perspective, how another soaked by familiar gray skies can feel desperate, too. Desperate people do desperate things.” I”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“We’ll slaughter, we’ll maim—” “And we’ll fucking kill,”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I was torture. I was pain. I was the fucking nightmare that no one ever saw coming …  … until it was too late.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“He calls himself an ugly scarred beast, but I also see the beautiful man beneath. Even if you don’t, he’s there. And he’s the other half of my soul. Whether it is rational or not. Whether it’s wrong or not.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“Change the things you can control, and let go of the things you cannot.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I have no more memories, I believe, from that age. I think it is because I lost them all to trauma. I think when a horrific event has tarnished your soul all the lighter days prior to that event are the brighter for it.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“We are different. Me weak and you strong. Me a Georgian and you Russian, but our broken hearts are tired and old. Our spirits are low, though not broken. But our souls, though thoroughly tested and hardened through pain, are resilient.” Her lips twitched, and she added, “They are the same.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I will lead my people. Just as you will lead yours. And we make the decisions for our people together.” Narrowing”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“She thought me beautiful. No one ever looked beyond my scars.”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“I would not betray this family. I am a warrior; if I were to cross your rule, I would face you head-on, not hide in the shadows.” I”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage

“My name is Valentin Belrov. I have a sister called Inessa Belrov. I have a love called Zoya Kostava. They are being held captive. I have to set them free!”
― Tillie Cole, Ravage