Riot Quotes

“You are in my heart. You are in my scarred soul.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“He placed his hand over his heart and said, “You have made me feel, in here. You have made me want things I never dare let myself want. You have made me want to fight for survival, not pride. I no longer want to die on the pit’s sand, like a warrior. I no longer I want to die at all … You make me want to live.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“Inessa,” he said in a husky voice, “without you here with me, I’d rather be dead. With you in my heart, and me in yours, I am alive.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“I had a choice,” he argued. Then, with a surprising tenderness, he pressed three light kisses along my neck. When he raised his head, he said, “I chose to take you. I chose to hold you close.” He inhaled. “I chose to make you mine.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“Through tragedy, we were both stronger.
And through distance, our love was stronger.
She was mine.
I was hers.
Her, the girl, whose soul matched mine.
And I, the boy, who was made perfectly for her.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“Together, we make happiness.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“I knew I wouldn’t fail. This was my family now. And we would all survive. We had to, there was no other choice.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“We didn’t have names. Our numbers weren’t welcome in this moment. Right now I was his beautiful, and he was my brave warrior.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“When it is me and you alone, there is no Master. When we are here, in your cell, there is no Blood Pit.” A smile tugged on my lips. “There are no matches to the death. There are no quarters where I am held captive all day. There is your heart beating in sync with mine. Speaking the language of our old home, in the company of the male that is becoming my new home.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“My head ached with his constant change of moods. But more than anything, my fear of him grew minute by minute. In the short time I had spent with him, he had shown many versions of himself—none of which I liked. All of which were terrifying.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“Our bodies will ache, we will tire, but we don’t stop!” I”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“This day would bring only one of two possible outcomes: liberty or death. I faced both with a smile on my face. The”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“We are nothing to these people. If my life is in danger anyway, I would rather die in the cause of something good than under the hand of someone’s anger.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“We don’t ask questions about anything, we don’t rise up. We only know this life. And we accept it.”
― Tillie Cole, Riot

“The real world isn’t ready to handle our reality. How could they accept that the gulags, the drugs, and the Blood Pit are real? It is the stuff of nightmares. How could they believe that males are being raised as killers, for sport and greed?”
― Tillie Cole, Riot