Master of Salt & Bones Quotes

“Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“You’re my curse. Staying away from you, is like trying to hold my breath when the tide is rising … I want to drown in you.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“the heart is a dangerous organ that isn’t meant to be free. Why else would God have built a cage for it?”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“The heart is a different animal. A caged, lonely scavenger that feeds on its own wounds. Its scars never heal, because you can’t mend the very thing it needs to survive. So the wound continues to fester, until what’s left of the organ is eventually consumed by its own self-mutilation.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“You’re the first time I feel safe.”
“And you’re the first time I’ve felt anything in a long time.” He kisses my forehead, squeezing my nape.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Because this is supposed to be filler, but you’re making me curious about the plot.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“When you love someone,
it’s hard to unlove them.
They make mistakes,
they do things you hate,
things you don’t agree with,
things that drive you absolutely mad,
but when it comes down to it?
You still love them.
You can’t help it.
I suppose that’s why I never really grasped
the concept of Hell and the devil.
The idea that God, or Jesus
could turn his back on the ones he loves so much,
just doesn’t make sense to me.
Even if you murdered someone, Isa
I might be deeply disappointed,
but to stop loving you?
That’d be impossible.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“You’re the first time I feel safe.”
“And you’re the first time I’ve felt anything in a long time.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“The breath of new life. The steady pulse in my veins. The long-awaited beat of a heart that’s been dead too long. My kindred flame.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“You’re mine. And I would never hurt what’s mine.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“I’m not the devil they make me out to be. The heartless, callous monster. You can’t do this shit to yourself without feeling something. That’s the problem. I feel everything. I feel it very deeply.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“I’ve punched enough mirrors to know that breaking things doesn’t make it go away. Doesn’t change what happened. But the pain feels good.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“I'd have given up my soul to the devil himself for you. If that isn't fucking love, then I don't know what is.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“The girl has corrupted every fiber of my being, and no one will ever be good enough after her. No one will ever compare to the flesh and blood fantasy before me. She’s mine.
The breath of new life. The steady pulse in my veins. The long-awaited beat of a heart that’s been dead too long.
My kindred flame.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“All my life, I’ve constructed walls to protect myself from a world that has no regard for boundaries.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights. You are one of the lights.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“It gets easier after a while. Almost like their hate becomes part of your skin.” I run my finger over the tiny ridges of scars along my forearm. “Surface. As long as it stays on the surface, it can’t touch who you are inside.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“When you feel dead inside, you inevitably reach for things that make you feel alive. Pain. Adrenaline. Drugs. That’s how vices are born. That’s how you became my obsession. You are what makes me feel alive. Like a breath of air after drowning.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Sighing, I stare out over the ocean, thinking how incredible it would be to end up in the tiny bellies of fish. To forever be part of the sea.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Well, brace yourself. Because the only thing that gets me off more than knives is water.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Dark humor, for which she was bold enough to laugh when others might keep quiet.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“I never really grasped the concept of Hell and the devil. The idea that God, or Jesus could turn his back on the ones he loves so much, just doesn’t make sense to me. Even if you murdered someone, Isa. I might be deeply disappointed, but to stop loving you? That’d be impossible.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“You’re my curse. Staying away from you, is like trying to hold my breath when the tide is rising.” His words dance around my head, the deep timbre of his voice titillating my senses. “I want to drown in you.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“It was my mother who first told me that there was no such thing as fairy tales with happy endings. That's because she spent her whole life waiting for the white knight to come and rescue her from the life she so desperately tried. to escape.
I went in search of the villain, instead, and found him alone and in pain, living in a castle of bones. a darker version of my mother's knight, whose armor had dents and cracks, and his hands sullied with blood. A broken man who tasted of salt and depravity, and who took me selfishly, without apology. He's the curse my mother warned me about. The Devil of Bonesalt, The Mad Son, with whom I've fallen irrevocably in love.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love.
It doesn't matter what the wold thinks of us.
Because we're the composers, the conductors of our own fate, and we write the notes to a beautiful, dark melody that no one else can hear.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Because there’s a saying … absence makes the dick grow harder, or something.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“You’d have to be quite inexperienced to fancy something so meaningless.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Oh, and you may want to lock your door at night.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Tell me to stop, Isa. For fucks sake, tell me to stop, and I will. I swear it.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones