Intrepid Quotes

“There is no other woman for me, Sera. It’s only you … Like a fucking addiction I can’t shake.”
I couldn’t see his eyes, but I could hear the quaver in his voice, the unstable sound of a man on the edge.
“I’ll never be good enough. Not for you. But tonight, I’m going to make you feel good.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Sera and I shouldn’t have been what we’d become anyway. Like light and dark, fire and water, the moon and the sun trying to come together. We didn’t mix.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“I fucking hate you for these things you do to me. I hate that I want you again, after I've already had a taste. But what I fucking hate most is that I'll want you tomorrow, too.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“He'd undoubtedly break my heart if ever I handed it over to him. But part of me wanted that fire, in spite of the burn. I wanted to know just how hot it could get before I'd be consumed in flames, because I had a feeling I'd never know that heat again.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“You're going to destroy me, angel.”
― keri lake, Intrepid

“I see you, too, Ty.” I leaned forward brushing my lips across his in a feathery kiss. “Now I’ve seen all of you.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Y’all heard of Truth or Dare, I’m sure, but we’re going to play Drink or Dare. Here’s how it works. You either drink as much as you’re told, or perform a dare. Once you choose, you can’t go back. And if you pass out, well …” He snorted and tossed back another shot of liquor. “Let’s just say, you don’t wanna pass out.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Having her in my arms made me feel invincible. Stronger. It made me realize the risks I was willing to take for her, to be able to stare into my future again without flinching.
She made me reckless. Fearless.
Intrepid.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“I was drawn to her light. Her purity and innocence, as if I’d been buried alive in a cold dark tomb for too long, before being given one breath, one moment of warmth on my skin. I craved her as much as the air and the heat I needed to feel alive again.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“My head’s all messed up. I got this noise banging around my skull all the time, but when I’m with you, it’s quiet. It all goes away.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“I couldn’t abandon the plan, even if the final name on my list belonged to the father of the woman I’d become obsessed with. The woman who could very well be the end of me, instead.
What poetic justice.
My vengeance and the only thing in the world that could possibly redeem me.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Ty? Did you save me tonight?”
... He shook his head and stroked his hand down my hair again. “No. You saved me.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Every minute of this is a piece of my destruction.” His ragged voice sent a shiver down my spine. “You’re going to destroy me, angel.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“I’d rather have one moment with him than not at all. Even if it wasn’t beautiful and perfect. I’d date the ugly and messy just to feel it. To feel everything.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Everything is temporary, Sera. Homes. Life. Love. What’s the point of getting attached to anything, if it all ends the same?”
“Because that’s the beauty of life. It doesn’t all end the same. And even if it’s all temporary, it’s worth it.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“I’d tried to deny my attraction to Ty, to hold tight to what little self-control I could muster around him, but something about the guy drew me in. Like a suicidal moth to a wildfire, he kept pulling me into his heat. Luring me with the promise of something exquisite. Both frightening and exhilarating.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid

“Wasn’t that the way of it, though? A person could spend their life searching for some shred of meaning, some reason to explain why they were still alive, only to find it in a woman they’d vowed to destroy. The very reason they were stuck riding a downward spiral into depravity.”
― Keri Lake, Intrepid