The Hatter's Game Quotes

“Just that soft utterance of his name was enough. As if Malcolm hat spoken the single word needed to bind Seong-Jae to him: to strip away the last of the walls he clung to and leave him so completely open to a touch that could hurt so deeply no matter what gentleness it might intend. That was what loving someone meant, he realized.
Letting them into all the places that hurt the most.
And trusting them to handle those fragile things with utmost care, nonetheless.”
― Cole McCade, The Hatter's Game: Part II

“You get to live. You get to feel it the way I’ve felt it all these years. The loss. The emptiness. The feeling of being nothing because that one person… that one person is gone.”
― Cole McCade, The Hatter's Game: Part II

“His flesh no longer belonged to him. It belonged to the agony, the anguish, the hollowness that had been clawing to claim him for so long.”
― Cole McCade, The Hatter's Game: Part II

“As if the presence of another, their very breaths, pushed the subtle eddies and currents of air between them until their every inhalation and exhalation stroked down the back of his neck like loving, hideous, possessive fingers.”
― Cole McCade, The Hatter's Game: Part II