My Beautiful Sin Quotes

“You’re at your most vulnerable when you experience pain or joy. But joy can be ripped away, and pain can go beyond what’s safe. But trust … Trust is the most intimate thing of all.”
― J. Kenner, My Beautiful Sin

“I stay silent, because the truth is, I don’t know what to say or how to feel. Right now, it’s taking all my effort to stand here and not cry. To see past this minute into the one after it, and the one after that until I’m out the door and can breathe freely. Anything beyond that is a blur.”
― J. Kenner, My Beautiful Sin

“I know you don’t want to hear it, but maybe this is for the best. You and Ellie, I mean. She’s never going to see the world the way you do. The way all of us who believe in you do.” She turned then, and left the room, leaving him to watch as the doors closed behind her. She might be right, he knew, but that didn’t mean he would give up on Ellie. On them. He wouldn’t. But maybe he needed to look at the world in a different way. Maybe at the end of the day, he and Ellie needed to find their own common perspective with which to view the world.”
― J. Kenner, My Beautiful Sin

“Devlin and I are past it now, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a wound. It was. It’s just scarred over. And that’s the interesting thing about scars—the healed area ends up a lot tougher than the original skin.”
― J. Kenner, My Beautiful Sin

“For years, I’ve chased danger and it was okay. Because at the end of the day, I didn’t care about the outcome. Survival simply meant that life had more chances to kick the shit out of me. And death—well, that would repair the status quo, right?”
― J. Kenner, My Beautiful Sin