The Rake Quotes

“You’re only as happy as your least happy child.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“She remembered she was in love with me, and by being away from me, she was punishing not only me but herself too.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“I missed sex. My insides twisted hotly, tension building inside me. What was life without sex? Just work and taxes and a good dose of dish-washing.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“but I am in love with a woman who suffered severe trauma when she was a wee girl. Love has failed you many times. You were never shy about it. I was the one who pushed you out of your comfort zone.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Okay”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“The vixen who didn’t care so much about sex after all”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“And on that note”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Wasn’t that what I was doing? Punishing both of us because I couldn’t handle the prospect of being in love? Of putting my trust in someone else?”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“All men are cheaters. All men are untrustworthy. All men are trash.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“You’re bloody crazy if you think I’m giving you up. You were mine from the moment I set my eyes on you. When you weren’t even aware of my existence. When I came to serve your sister with a draconic agreement she shouldn’t have signed.” And then: “The night we got in bed together for the first time”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“When all my soldiers are dead”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Just like sometimes”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“The thing about men is…” Persy sipped her tea”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“This was why falling in love was a dangerous game. It gave you the worst thing a girl like me could have. Hope.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“It was just like me to fall in love with the craziest woman on the planet.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Not wanting to be alone is not a sin.” “Then why’d you give yourself the exact same fate?”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“I’ve been made a fool by this man”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“This was why people fell into love. Love”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Who made you so utterly incapable of having a healthy relationship with a man?”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Who. Did. This. To. You?”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“sin doesn’t taste so bad.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“That same helpless feeling of putting your heart in the hands of a man and watching as he crushed it into shards of nothing.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“I’m a mess,” I panted. “Be my mess.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“You’ll never be able to tame me,” I warned. “I have no desire to.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“It’s never okay to need anyone,” I croaked. “That’s a terrible way to exist”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“It’s okay to need someone sometimes,”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“Fate is like a stalker. It has its ways of finding you.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“It takes two to tango.” And three to create a soap opera”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“She’s a great mom”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake

“It’s okay. You just forgot who you are. Welcome back.”
― L.J. Shen, The Rake