Savage Lover Quotes

“Our hands link together perfectly. Like fingers inside of a glove. Like they were made for each other.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“If you could see my whole life laid out on a string, this would be the one bright bead. The one moment of happiness.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I’ll do whatever it takes to protect her. I’d take down the whole Chicago PD if I had to. I’d murder every man in this city, one by one.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I love you so much it hurts. I’m scared to tell you, scared to even let myself feel it. But I love you, and I have for a while.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“(why do boys always get the best lashes?)”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I want Camille like I’ve never wanted anything in my life. I want her to love me. She’s the only one who knows me, so she’s the only one who can. And I want to love her. I’m fucking awful at it—I’ve never had any practice.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I want Camille like I’ve never wanted anything in my life. I want her to love me. She’s the only one who knows me, so she’s the only one who can. And I want to love her.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I won’t ever leave you,” Nero says. “Never, Camille. You’ll never have to wonder where I went. I’ll be right by your side.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“He’s touching me the way he’d touch a car engine—with a desire to fix it. He diagnosed me, and he’s making me run smooth again.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Watermelon Sugar” instead. Thank you, Harry Styles. You’re a true gentleman. You would never fuck with a woman’s torque wrenches and then force her to listen to Canada’s worst export.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I’ve been a total ass to her. Nothing personal—I was just being myself. But I’m not a good guy. Not boyfriend material. I’ve always known that. I’m selfish. Impulsive. Easily offended. Chasing after whatever I want and then hating it as soon as I get it. I don’t think people can change. And I don’t know how to be any other way. And yet . . . For once in my life, I wish I were different.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Organized Crime covers Vice, Narcotics, and Gang Investigations. All of my favorite things.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Not to mention that every minute I spend around him is likely to land me in jail, one way or another. I don’t need that. I’m doing a pretty good job of destroying my future all on my own.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Patricia! Baby! Why don’t you pick up your phone?” he cries. “I called you eight hundred times. Listen, I’m telling you, baby, I never cheated on you . . .” “I know that,” Patricia says calmly. “You know . . .” He stares at her. “If you know that . . . then why . . . in the fuck . . . did you key my CAR!?” he shouts. “BECAUSE YOU LEFT MY GRANDMOTHER AT THE AIRPORT!” Patricia bellows back at him. “You said you were going to pick her up while I was at work! She waited THREE HOURS, MASON! That woman is eighty-seven years old! She saw the Hindenburg explode. Actually, she heard it—BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FUCKING TV!” Mason is standing there frozen, with a guilty grimace on his face. He definitely forgot all about Patricia’s grandma until right this very moment. “Okay, okay,” he says, holding up his hands. “I might have fallen asleep—” “ASLEEP?” “But you didn’t have to key my car, baby! It’s a classic!” “Nana’s a classic, Mason! NANA!”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I don’t ever want you to be jealous,” I tell her. “There’s nobody else, Camille. Nobody who ever made me feel like this.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Camille,” he says. “I want you. But not . . . not like I usually do. Not to just fuck and get off.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“As cultured as yogurt"
-Nero Gallo”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I know his brothers, too. I’m not scared of a bunch of greasy gangsters. It’s not 1920 anymore.” “Is it 1980?” I ask him. “ ‘Cause you look like that douche from Cobra Kai.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“For just a second, I wish that I was beautiful so he'd want to look at me the way I'm looking at him.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“The way we find peace in each other, when we’re two restless souls. I’ve known he was the one for me for a long time now.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“What, did you meet Taylor Swift?”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Don’t you dare try to put that on me,” Greta says, scowling at me. “You’ve never listened to one thing I said.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“He looks like Doogie Howser, if Doogie were Asian and wore Converse sneakers.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Propelled by annoyance, I scoop Camille up and throw her over my shoulder. “HEY!” she shrieks. “Put me down! What are you—” “Shut up,” I snarl, jogging over to my car.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Thank you, Harry Styles.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I would like to have Beyoncé curls. What I actually have is Howard Stern curls,”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Never has such a dangerous object been disguised in such an appealing wrapper.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“It's an entirely different thing to get care from the last person in the world you'd be expecting.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“Nero, I can’t take this . . .” I say. “You may never find another one.” “Camille,” he says, touching my cheek with his hand. “I’ve always felt things . . . intensely. Or I thought I did. But every emotion I ever had, my whole life through, is nothing compared to what I feel when I look at you. I don’t care about the car, or the money we just took, or anything else in this world. Next to you, all those other things just fade away.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover

“I’ve spent a long time with a hole in my heart. Nero fills all the empty space inside of me. He heals every wound.”
― Sophie Lark, Savage Lover