Brutal Prince Quotes

“Trust is rarer than love.
It's putting your fate, your happiness, your life in someone's hands. Hoping they keep it safe.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I can’t believe this. I’m marrying a child. And not a normal child—a demon hellspawn, like Chucky, or the Children of the Corn . . .”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“If you EVER talk to my wife like that again, I’ll empty that clip in your chest.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Calm water doesn’t need more water—you need wind to move your sail.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I love this woman. The day she set my house on fire was the luckiest day of my life. It truly is the luck of the Irish: perverse. Inexplicable. And utterly fantastic. “Do you forgive me for losing it in the first place?” she asks me, slipping her slim little hand into mine. “I shouldn’t tell you how much you could get away with, Aida,” I say, shaking my head. “But you already know that I’d forgive anything you do.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“You’re mine, Aida,” Callum growls in my ear. “I’ll kill anyone who tries to touch you.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I’ve never been one for grand romantic gestures, but even under the most liberal interpretations, I don’t think waterboarding counts as foreplay.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Cal found me, just like he promised. It wasn’t my father, or my brothers. It was my husband. This man I didn’t even want. And now I can’t imagine being without him.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Do you want me, Cal?” “I don’t want you,” he moans, his voice husky and raw. “I need you.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Real power isn’t working the system. It’s running the system. Building it yourself”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I'll always find you, Aida.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Having recently been grazed in the arm by my loving wife, I can definitely attest that having a knife slowly, torturously burrowed into your guts is about a hundred times worse.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Trust is rarer than love. It’s putting your fate, your happiness, your life in someone’s hands. Hoping they keep it safe.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“When he has a temper. When he’s angry. When he wants to kill somebody. That’s when I understand him. That’s when we finally have common ground.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I content myself with smiling up at him and saying, “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“There’s nothing healthier than olive oil and red wine. You eat like an Italian and you’ll live forever. It’s not good to be too skinny.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I’m glad he made sure she was comfy before he tried to burn her alive.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Aida's watching me with her cool gray eyes.
I don't like this new quiet Aida. It makes me nervous, wondering what she's up to. I like it better when she blurts out whatever she's thinking as soon as it comes to her head. Even if it really pisses me off in the moment.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“I kiss her like I’ll never let her go. Because I won’t. Not ever.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Understand this,” Callum says quietly. “You’re coming to that dinner tonight, even if I have to throw you over my shoulder and carry you like a caveman. You can be wearing the dress when I do that, or I swear to god, Aida, I will haul you there naked and make you sit in your seat in front of everyone. Don’t fucking test me.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“The great Callum Griffin. He’s their JFK, and I’m supposed to be their Jackie Kennedy. I’d rather be Lee Harvey Oswald.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Our relationship has proceeded in such a funny, backward way. Marriage first. Then sex. Then getting to know each other. And finally...whatever it is. A feeling of warmth and desire and affection and connection spreads through my chest, a feeling that burns and grows stronger by the moment, especially when I glance over at the man sitting next to me.

I can't believe it.

I think I'm falling in love.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Great,” I say. “But who’s going to protect me from my betrothed? That girl is a wild animal. Can you imagine her as a politician’s wife? I doubt she even knows how to walk in heels.” “Then you’ll teach her,” my mother says. “I don’t know how to walk in heels, either,” I say sarcastically. “How exactly am I supposed to teach her to be a lady, mother?”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“That's what I admire about her. She's wild and sh's fierce.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Handsome, but in a stark sort of way—like he’d push you off a lifeboat if there weren’t enough seats. Or maybe even if you forgot to brush your teeth.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Isn't that the same with her ?
She loves passion of any kind. She loves to be angry, stubborn, joyful, or mischievous. The only thing she doesn't like is a lack of feeling.
Unfortunately, that's what I am. Cold. Restrained. Lacking in pleasure.
Until I'm around her.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Neither would I,” I promise her. “I’ll always find you, Aida.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“That’s why there was no emotion on my side, just indifference. You need push and pull to feel love. Or hate.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“The election is only a week away. Almost nothing can fuck this up for me now. As long as I can keep my wife in line.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince