Tryst Six Venom Quotes

“Virginity is a concept invented by people to make women feel worthless for having sex.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I hate Olivia Jaeger. I fucking hate her, and I’d happily never love anything if I could hate her my whole life.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“within this inch, i'm free”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I’m not gay,” she says quietly, and I have to strain to hear her over the rain. “I’m just in love with you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“You’re mine. You’ve always been mine. Whenever I want. You’re my fucking girl.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Not to waste time. Not to leave anything unsaid. This could be it. The last time we see each other.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Most people, he’d once told me, don’t do great things, because great things don’t feel great when you’re doing them.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I’m in love with you, Clay,” I tell her. The car falls silent, like my brothers are afraid to breathe because they might miss something. Her lips open a little, and God, the softness that hits her eyes makes her look like she’d blow over in a light breeze. I swear I see a smile desperate to get out, and I want to say it again. “Just kidding.” I force a scoff. “Just wanted you to see how fucking gay you are.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Everyone is our type when they’re naked!”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“It never looks like me, the person in the mirror , the black script reads.
She looks like everyone else.
I look around, not seeing anyone else in the hall, except for a few loiterers down by the doors to the lunch room.
I keep reading.
She’s like every woman on his arm—the same hair, the same clothes, the same smile, because to beat she has to compete, right?
I stood in front of the mirror this morning, a mouthful of toothpaste and my hair tangled by your fingers. You sucked my lips swollen last night, and I can still smell your kisses on my skin.
The world swims, how hard I’m used by you.
How all I have when you’re done with me is my bones.
I don’t care what I look like anymore as long as I look like yours.
Marked, raw, tangled, sore, and scented like you—I don’t care.
As long as I look like yours”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I'm full of thorns," I say softly. "But there are things about me that I hope are worth it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Liv Jaeger has been a bloody nuisance since the day I met her, but sometimes I’m not even sure what bugs me so much about her. She stays in her lane, doesn’t she? But I love pushing her. I love it like nothing else.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I want everyone to know she’s mine. She has my heart.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I like crazy. She can be fire or ice, I don’t care, I just need her to be one of them. And even better if it’s both”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I don’t care what I look like anymore as long as I look like yours.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Refusing yourself the things you need to feel alive only brings two consequences: detriment or death.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Lucky for her, I love getting on her bad side”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“We get attached to what we can control and resist what we can’t.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“We keep biting back. We survive, because sometimes that’s the most violent thing we can do to other people. We stay alive.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I’m consumed. This is what it feels like. This is what right feels like. It was always wrong before. Kissing someone. Letting them touch me. I never had that burn low in my belly. I was never hungry. Until her. I sink into her mouth again, kissing, sucking, tasting… At least there’s this. I thought hating her was enough. If I couldn’t have this, at least I had her attention. Even if it was bad. At least I could destroy what I was going to lose anyway in three months when we graduated, and I couldn’t look at her every day anymore. But God, I do hate her. Her smile and her red lips. The way she smudges her dumb eyeliner, making her eyes look smoky and captivating, and her wild hair that always looks like it flew through the wind before she put it up in a ponytail. Her olive skin, how her bracelets make music every time she moves, her chipped, black nail polish, and those stupid biker boots with all the buckles she wears that make her legs so hard not to look at. The way she rolls her skirt up, and I can’t pay attention in calculus. I hate it all. How every part of her looks like it has a taste”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I kiss her forehead and every inch of her face, learning her body like it’s my home. Every curve. Every bone. Every patch of skin. This is my girl. And I know I was made for her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I’m consumed. This is what it feels like. This is what right feels like. It was always wrong before. Kissing someone. Letting them touch me. I never had that burn low in my belly. I was never hungry. Until her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Life is small when you’re a kid. We get
attached to what we can control and resist what we can’t.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“I won't look like anyone else, and while I'm not yet happy, I'm no longer trying to be something I never was.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Enemies are a choice. A result of our egos. They happen when we’ve chosen to see sheep instead of sleeping lions.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“And over time I came to understand that my oldest brother was only twenty-three that night, and twenty-three is still so young. That he was suddenly in charge of three minors to feed and clothe, a mountain of debt, and the prospect that life would never be more than this for him.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“Sanoa Bay is an unincorporated neighborhood of St. Carmen, but it may as well be the moon. They’re Saints. We’re Swamp. We share a zip code. That’s it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“She’s better than a drug.
I always knew she had it in her.

Like a fucking drug.

But I don’t want her to let me go. It took so long to get us here
I hate Olivia Jaeger. I fucking hate her, and I’d happily never love anything if I could hate her my whole life.

Bitter but beautiful, like Valium on my tongue. That’s what she’s like”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“What do you care?

I care.” I put my hands on my hips as she works. “You’re my fun.”
I like you around.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom

“God, her arms. The feel of her. Her voice.
More.”
― Penelope Douglas, Tryst Six Venom