The Sinners Quotes

“The woman to tame me had to be a fighter. Which means she had to be you.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“And I love you,” said Cassius. “Since the first time we had sex and you said three more times.” He accepted my swat with a grin. “And the night I looked into your eyes and saw that you and I were the same. Meant to find each other. Meant to heal the other.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“I love you, Ember,” Clay said. “Possibly since the first day I met you and stole a kiss that wasn’t mine.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“I took Cassius’s and Clay’s hands as he faded in the distance. “I love you.” “We love you too.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“It’s not that.” He sounded like he meant it. “It’s because Hiro—forgiveness—will never be right for me. I’m hard, cold, brutal. I faced the same demons that torment you and they reshaped me too. Fire burns. It feeds and grows and becomes stronger. While ice, it only survives in the harsh conditions that made it, and without, it melts into nothing. “You and I would be a disaster together, Ember. You’d make me believe in forgiveness and hope, and I’d remind you there is none.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“It’s not that.” He sounded like he meant it. “It’s because Hiro—forgiveness—will never be right for me. I’m hard, cold, brutal. I faced the same demons that torment you and they reshaped me too. Fire burns. It feeds and grows and becomes stronger. While ice, it only survives in the harsh conditions that made it, and without, it melts into nothing. “You and I would be a disaster together, Ember. You’d make me believe in forgiveness and hope,”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“Part of the word literally translates to fire in Japanese, and that’s what you are. Wild. Beautiful. Dangerous. Warm.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“You and I would be a disaster together, Ember. You’d make me believe in forgiveness and hope, and I’d remind you there is none.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“But your parents knew what they were doing when they chose Ember. Part of the word literally translates to fire in Japanese, and that’s what you are. Wild. Beautiful. Dangerous. Warm.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“He loved our banter though he never said it. A guy like him needed someone to fight him and push back. That’s what a true partner does. They give you what you need—even if it hurts.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“That’s the thing about you, Clay. You’re smart, strong, fearless, and feared, but you wear your heart on your sleeve. I don’t know anyone who loves harder than you do. Who has sacrificed more. I know how you feel about me, and it makes me happier than I can put into words that I’m someone you... care for.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“Life is about accepting the crap you can’t change and focusing on what you can.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“Find someone that challenges you. Pushes your buttons. Ignites your anger like no one else. Because in that frustration is passion. The artist doesn’t paint because he wants to. He paints because he has to. Even when he despises his creation. Even when he doesn’t have two pennies to rub together and art demands his last one. Even when the world tells him he’s no good. His passion for painting is obsession, and that’s what love is at the end of the day. It has to be you and only you. Their passion. Their obsession.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“Nothing is going to happen to you while you live in this town.” “Then let’s stop pretending we didn’t trade ‘you and me’ for ‘us’ a long time ago.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“I didn’t run from you, princess. I sacrificed you. The beautifully sad girl who stepped onto the balcony wearing agony only I could see. I ate your pain because that’s what I do. And then I left you because I’d give it back. That’s what I do too.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“The thing about pain is when it torments you long enough, you begin to cling to it. Suffering is preferable to the terrifying fear that without the pain you might be numb.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“I owe you an apology, Ember. You are far from a child. You’re burdened by inexperience, immaturity, and naiveté, but not, it’s clear, by lack of intelligence. The longer I’m in your presence you prove yourself worthy of the title—the first Horsewoman.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“I love you, Ember,” Clay said. “Possibly since the first day I met you and stole a kiss that wasn’t mine.” “And I love you,” said Cassius. “Since the first time we had sex and you said three more times.” He accepted my swat with a grin. “And the night I looked into your eyes and saw that you and I were the same. Meant to find each other. Meant to heal the other.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“And Lighthouse too,” added Clay. “He was feeling you up the other day.” “You mean when he pulled a leaf out of my hair?” “He took his sweet time with that damn leaf.” “I’m leaving now.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“Therapists bank second homes and yachts just on mommy issues.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“You don’t just wake up one day and decide to throw everything you learned about good and wrong out the window. It’s a bunch of little things you know you shouldn’t do, that you rationalize away. ‘If this was really wrong, Dad wouldn’t ask me to do it.’ Or ‘they can afford to buy another one.’ “Those little things add up and then you don’t know which way is right anymore. You’re numb. Looking at the world behind glass, and nothing is real because nothing can touch you.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners