The Devil's Advocate Quotes

“You can’t always save a person from drowning. Sometimes it’s best to throw them a life preserver so they can learn how to save themselves.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Because you can only be tethered to someone for so long before the cord begins to strangle you.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Loving someone isn’t dangerous. Falling in love with the wrong someone is.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Something ugly and painful twists my insides, puncturing the dam of anguish I’ve tried so hard to hold back. “You’re not capable of loving me the way I love you. You’re not capable of choosing me…you never will be. Even though I choose you with every single breath I take.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Part of caring about someone is accepting their flaws and their pain. Carrying bits and pieces of it with you, so they don’t have to bear all of it on their own.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Evil is merely the absence of good.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“you don’t always have to commit murder to kill someone.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“You know as well as I do, you can love someone with everything you have, and it will never be enough to make them love you back.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Damien,” I whisper, lightly trailing a finger down his back. “It’s okay to let someone in again. I won’t hurt you.” They say the Devil was once an angel. But no one ever bothered to ask the Devil what led to his downfall, or why he became so evil. No one wants to hear his side of the story…because no one cares. But I do.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Sometimes people do shitty things we have no control over, and we excuse it because we love them.” His hand slides around my waist and he lifts me up. “But that’s not a reflection of you. Her problems were just that…hers. You don’t have to keep making them yours.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“The best way to make someone pay for their sins…is to strike when they least expect it.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“The hardest part of loving someone is knowing it won’t last forever. Sooner or later, one of you will have to let the other go. Because all things, good and bad, come to an end at”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Beauty is only the outside layer of a person, but you’re more than that. And if someone tries to make you feel inferior, it’s only because you intimidate them. Because they see the same thing I do when they look at you.” His blue eyes blaze. “You shine so bright you put the entire galaxy to shame, Eden.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“There’s a reason for all the bad things we go through. Something that makes us realize the pain was worth it in the end. I found mine.   I hope like hell you find yours one day, Eden.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Sometimes what we dislike in others is the very same thing we loathe in ourselves.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Love isn’t powerful because it builds and restores. It’s powerful because it survives destruction.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“God isn’t the one eating this little cunt until it creams all over his face,” he growls low and deep. “I am.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Her smell is addictive. Like virtue and sin. As if heaven and hell had one dirty, corrupt night together and she’s the tantalizing vestige.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Because that’s all evil really is. It’s not the boogeyman or the monster under the bed. It’s not demons or hellfire. Evil is merely the absence of good.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“You’re like a goddamn bomb waiting to explode. Looking for the right reason to detonate.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“You’re not capable of loving me the way I love you. You’re not capable of choosing me…you never will be. Even though I choose you with every single breath I take.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Life is nothing but one big chess game.” I grin. “Some people are pawns…others are kings.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“They say the Devil was once an angel. But no one ever bothered to ask the Devil what led to his downfall, or why he became so evil.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate

“Because that’s all evil really is. It’s not the boogeyman or the monster under the bed. It’s not demons or hellfire. Evil is merely the absence of good. People can condemn the wicked all they want. But deep down, we’re all evil. Some are just better at hiding it.”
― Ashley Jade, The Devil's Advocate