Kill Switch Quotes

“Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“This is black,” he said. “Fear, falling, release. Excitement, risk, danger.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Our life is a series of plans,” she finally said. “Days, weeks, months, years… And then, there are moments. Moments you don’t see coming and you don’t plan, but everything you need, all the things you want to feel, are in that moment.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“People assumed I behaved strictly on impulse, when actually, it required quite a bit of strategy being this fucked up.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Your body can only feel one pain at a time.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“What’s your tattoo?” I asked quietly, remembering how my friend noticed he had one.
He didn’t say anything for a moment, or ask how I knew, but then he answered, “A decaying snowflake.”
I raised my eyebrows. A decaying…
“Why?” I asked.
“Because of Winter by Walter de la Mare,” he replied softly. “Something still beautiful, even after what I did to her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The world respected people who didn’t crave approval.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“the beauty in life is what we live for, and it’s everywhere. You just have to look closer.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“He made himself the cure, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t also created the disease.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“How I’d never hated anyone as much as I hated him, but how I loved what I felt with him more than I loved anything I felt with anyone else, either.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I’m stronger now,” I whispered. “I won’t let you fall.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“We’re going to rule the world, Rika.” I held out my hands, grinning. “You, Banks, and me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“that’s what red feels like. Anger and fury and heat and need so strong you’re a fucking animal, Winter. It’s primal.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“If she left me, I'm going to burn the whole fucking world down until I find her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“To dive and fall.

To have a lifetime of searching for something.

Or to have five minutes of everything.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“You teach your daughter to hide in everyone else's world," I shot back, "and I'll teach mine everyone else exists in her. Go fuck yourself, and leave the kid alone.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Your place is at my side,” I told her. “Say it.”
She whispered, “My place is at your side.”
“Louder.” I shook her gently, but my tone was firm. “My woman doesn’t ask permission. She’s a force. Say it louder.”
Her chin started to tremble, but her voice burst out strong. “My place is at your side.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The secret of life that everyone knew and everyone forgot was that we weren’t alone. We thought we were unique. We thought we were the first. No one has been through what I’ve been through. No one else is feeling this. No one knows what it’s like to be me. This is the first time anyone has endured what I’ve endured, right?”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“There’s always a reason why things are as they are.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Having Damon around was the only time I ever felt solid in my life,” he told me. “He’s powerful. But painful.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Words were shit. They didn’t mean anything. What we did mattered, not what we said.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I might kiss you again when we're older," he says. "Just so you know.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Enjoy your freedom while it lasts, Winter Ashby, because we’re not done,” Damon warned in a low voice that snaked through my ear, taunting me. “Grow up, learn things, and have fun in high school, but don’t change the little girl who loves it ‘in the black’, because I like you there, too. And I will be back for what’s mine when you’re old enough for bigger things.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“I rolled my eyes so far back in my head I almost saw my brain.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“One pain at a time.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“It is an art how quickly you can make everyone want to kill you.”

I shrugged, hearing the smile in her voice. “I just can’t help myself.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“This was a game to him, and that was fine. He just wasn’t the only one playing anymore.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“People come together, and for a tiny space of time...it’s beautiful and raw, because you can’t think and you don’t want to. You just feel... The moments are what we remember.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“It all fucking disappeared when you were dancing, though. It made the world prettier. I liked it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch