Hostage Quotes

“It’s like catching fucking sunlight in a jar. I don’t want to let her go.”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Any dress that makes you choose between breathing and eating isn’t worth wearing”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“But here’s the thing about an egg: when you break it, you get everything you want, but then it’s not smooth or perfect anymore. It’s just this dead thing”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“She’s the rivet, taking away the darkness. But without the darkness, there’s nothing left inside me. I’m hollow.”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“How much is it worth to feel alive? A little fear seems like a small price to pay.”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“I lie there, naked beneath him. I want him to touch my naked skin, but not because he’s dirty or he’ll ruin me. Because I love everything about him. I trust him”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“I’m growing inside this box, growing in this completely wrong shape plants aren’t supposed to be in, because I can’t see the sun. It’s like I don’t know anything of what I want. I think I would know what I wanted if I was out of the box”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“We don’t have anything between us. Not promises or nice words. This is all we have. The naked truth”
― Skye Warren, Hostage

“You don’t really know somebody if you don’t know their name, right”
― Skye Warren, Hostage

“You never let them take everything. Some people don’t get that”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“You always hang on to what you can”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“I always thought of the world as a kind of lush garden I was being kept secluded from, but it’s more like a jungle—dangerous, wild, and fiercely beautiful.”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Clinging to your killer, that’s a powerful and horrible kind of intimacy.”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Fake news”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Not that I plan on strapping on a necktie anytime soon—or ever—but maybe I don’t need to go killing everyone I hate. Baby steps”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“She’s the rain, soothing the fire in me, washing the rage”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Maybe I just don’t know how to feel okay. Maybe that’s what they took away from me”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“My heart swells with so much love, I don’t think my body can contain it”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Justice instead of vengeance. Preventing future crimes instead of retaliating”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Grief tastes like the ocean”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“air like fire in my lungs”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Only an asshole refuses to let his mind be changed by new information”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Loyalty means everything to him”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“It doesn’t make any sense, but that’s what happens when you’re a virgin. Even your fantasies are a little confused”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Because love doesn’t have to be complicated and hard. It doesn’t have to hurt. This feeling inside me, something large and expanding, a lightness—it’s love. As ordinary as a speck of dirt. As magical as moondust”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“All of these things are lies”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Is that what love means to him? Suffering”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“It’s a position of supplication, but one of strength”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“Every single one of us has our demons. Whether it’s sex or blood or drugs. There’s something we use to numb the pain. Or, worse, something we use to relive it. What happened back then fucked us up so we’re not really human anymore. We’re animals with damn-near unlimited funds and access to the world’s worst vices”
― Annika Martin, Hostage

“She has a way of making these things bearable”
― Annika Martin, Hostage