Ecstasy Quotes

“We’re all addicted to something. Drugs just happen to be illegal.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I wish feeling loved was enough to tame my fucking restless soul. But I just have to get through that one day at a time. One hour at a time. One minute. Maybe one day I’ll stop thinking about him. Maybe one day I won’t be in love with a ghost.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“It's amazing, how I want to kill her and save her all at the same time. I'm not sure which I'll end up doing tonight.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“She’s not broken. She’s not looking for someone to save her. She’s looking for someone to drown with her.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I think I want to keep you and I think I don’t ever want to let you go, Zara Rose.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I just wish that was enough. I wish feeling loved was enough to tame my fucking restless soul.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“The people with the biggest hearts always have the thickest armor.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“That’s why girls like assholes, I think to myself. There’s something appealing about being with a man who does not give a single fuck about anything. Anything but you. But what about when he ruins you? What then?”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“One of them doesn’t want you, Zara. One of them only wants to see if he can take you away from the other. That’s part of the appeal.” She levels me with her gaze, and I feel her next words like an arrow to the heart. “Once he gets you, he’ll drop you, and it’ll hurt like hell when he does.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“But you are so beautiful, too. So fucking beautiful, inside and out. And you’re funny and kind and your recklessness makes you interesting. And you deserve love, Zara. Whether you believe it or not, you deserve it.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“The idea of him being with me past college, past this week even, is unfathomable. And I don’t like it. People always leave.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“But I see everything you could be. Everything you already are, even if you don’t know it yet. I see more than what you want people to see, Zara. I see past your bullshit, and that’s what I want. What you really are.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I think I want to keep you,” he says with a faint trace of a smile. “I think I want to keep you and I think I don’t ever want to let you go, Zara Rose.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“If you let people in, they can hurt you.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I wish I was in fall right now. Falling right out of this fucking Jeep.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“This is not going to end well for one of us. Logically, I know that. But the thing about logic is that it has no effect on the heart at all.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“How she grabbed a knife from the block, and I thought she was going to destroy the furniture or something. I thought she was going to tear some shit apart. I didn’t think it was going to be herself.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“Don’t thank people for things they don’t deserve thanks for.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“Knowing the root cause doesn’t change the disease where my mind is concerned.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I don’t want to learn about why people are fucked up. I am one of those people, and I’ve realized the “why” doesn’t fucking matter.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I think about the therapist I went to when I was five. They let me play with blocks and assured me that my parents’ divorce wasn’t my fault. A lot of good that did for the empty hole in my chest that my father had left.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“because he thinks he’s just biding his time, picking up her pieces until she’s whole again. But he doesn’t see what I see in her. She’s not broken. She’s not looking for someone to save her. She’s looking for someone to drown with her.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“But she should know people don’t do what you want just because you beg them.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“You know she’s not okay. You know she’s still using. And you can’t breathe for her too. She’ll pull you down in that grave and bury you with her.” He takes another pull from his beer. “She’ll fuck you up, Alex. You won’t save her. She’ll just destroy you.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“They fight and they scream and in the end, they stay together because no one else would want them.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“but don’t you dare let those things make you bitter. Don’t you dare allow the world’s hurt to make you into someone that hurts other people.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I want to go upstairs, to Zara’s apartment. I want to fall into her arms. I want to tell her I’m scared. I want to tell her I don’t want her to become my mother. I want to tell her I think she already has.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“There’s no truth between us. I don’t know if there ever was.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I’m not sure I want to know about that kind of pain, when she’s still clearly in so much.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“He probably doesn’t know either, that the girls with the worst habits have the sharpest teeth. And that girl could take a bite out of fucking glass and never bleed. It’s how I know she’d be able to handle someone like me.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy