Blood Always Quotes

“If there was ever a time someone could accuse me of being OCD, it would be because of how clean I keep my guns.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“How old were you?” “Sixteen. He was just twenty-six, so it wasn’t gross or anything. I mean, it was good. That’s the same age difference between us.” I was rambling, trying to brush away the tension I could sense was mounting. “That’s a fucking pedophile, Maria. You were a child, and he was in a position of power. That’s not a relationship, it’s rape.” “You don’t understand. I was the one who seduced him, not the other way around.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“When I had agreed to an arranged marriage, I had expected a wife, not a social services project.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I told you not to show up at my place unannounced. Do you have some kind of learning disability or something?”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I spun her around, gripping her arms with bruising strength, but only for a second.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“If she thought a little alcohol in her bloodstream was going to deter me, she was sorely mistaken.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Maria wasn’t just complicated; she was nuts.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Yes, some of my retribution was in moving on with my life and not allowing his actions to continue harming me, but there was a lot to be said for good old-fashioned revenge. Karma was a bitch, and her name was Maria De Luca.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“They say a man who wants revenge should dig two graves—that the harm to your soul isn’t worth the final outcome. I called bullshit. I hadn’t experienced a more rewarding, euphoric high in my life”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I love you more than my own life. This wasn’t supposed to happen, but now, I can’t imagine life without you.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Sal Amato was going to die, and I would be the one to send him to Hell.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“He wanted to slay my demons for me, but some demons were personal. Some demons could never be slayed except by the hands of their victims.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I cried inconsolable tears. The tears of a seven-year-old girl with nowhere to turn. The tears of a fifteen-year-old girl with so much anger she poisoned everything she touched. The tears of a soon-to-be mother who was terrified for her unborn child.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Every time the words danced on my lips, each time my heart wept to share its burden, I reinforced my walls of self-control with another layer of bricks and added more locks onto the cage containing the ugliest of my secrets.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I gifted my soul to Matteo De Luca. I was offering him new ways to hurt me. Gambling on trust, with my heart as collateral. And I reveled in the realization that he would give me his last breath before causing me pain.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“He told me that he saw past my darkness and jagged scars—beneath the vile parts of me I wanted desperately to throw away—and he wanted all of it. The beauty of who I was underneath and the complexity of the woman I showed to the world. As if the ugly wasn’t there, and all he saw was perfect grace.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Whether I was lusting after her, angry at her, or laughing at her odd sense of humor—all my reactions were extreme where she was concerned. I had no casual feelings toward Maria.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“That’s my child, too. You abort that baby, and I’ll kill you.” He yanked his hand away as if my filth was contagious then stormed from the room.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Is there a reason you have unleashed Her Royal Bitchiness or are you simply bipolar? Because if that’s the case, there are medications for that.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I couldn’t fathom how we’d gone from unbridled fucking and intimate confessions the night before to the taciturn setting of a hostile business takeover at dinner.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Time. When I wear a watch, it’s a reminder to me that we only have so much time on this planet. It helps keep me focused on the things I want in life instead of getting lost in the meaningless crap.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“She was a venus fly trap, sophisticated and deadly, while other women were the pretty pink of a simple garden rose.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“You are the fucking sexiest woman I’ve ever seen.” If my voice got any more guttural, I ran the risk of being mistaken for a Neanderthal. That was what she did to me, muddled my brain until I was reduced to my most basic instincts. Conquer. Fuck. Protect.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I even tried to convince myself I didn’t care why she was upset. That I didn’t care about her. Then the doors opened in the small chapel, and a wave of lust sucker punched me right in the gut. Maybe it was just the lust erasing rational thought, but seeing her flipped a switch. I would raze mountains for her—conquer cities and drain oceans. It would be rather hypocritical of me to say in the same breath that I didn’t care. I was absolutely fucked.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I knew nothing of his past. Of his darkest sins or deepest desires. Nothing to substantiate a foundation of trust.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“At my retreat, a black veil descended across Matteo’s gaze, masking his response to my withdrawal. We went from scalding liquid magma to brittle volcanic rock in a matter of seconds, and as usual, it was all my fault. I ruined everything good I ever touched,”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I’d spent a lifetime being all too aware of just how different I was from everyone around me. I wasn’t exactly the black sheep—more like the venomous toad in a pond full of graceful coy fish. There was no comparison.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“I came to welcome you back and to give you this.” He reached into his suit jacket and withdrew what looked like a black jewelry box—perhaps a necklace or a bracelet—long and narrow with a designer name embossed on the top. “I thought it could be your something blue.” I took the box in my hands, noting it was a tad heavier than I would have expected, but that was because I’d been totally wrong about its contents. Inside lay a fixed tactical knife with a sapphire blue handle, just big enough for a woman’s hand. I scooped up the gleaming blade, allowing the discarded box to drop to the floor. The quality was unsurpassed. Perfectly balanced weight with a carbonite handle and gleaming steel blade. Far more precious to me than any jewelry ever could have been.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“let me assure you that I have not fucked anyone since you walked through my door, shooting daggers at me with your eyes and dripping venom from those fuckable lips. Everything I asked of you will apply to me as well. Does that ease your mind?”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always

“Snark and sass were two of my most frequently used defenses when I was uncomfortable.”
― Jill Ramsower, Blood Always