The Hollow Inside Quotes

“Poison can come in the form of a person.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“Girls are aggressive these days.” “Always have been,” I say. “We’re just less interested in hiding it now.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“When people talk about loving someone, they only ever tell you about moments like this, sitting on the porch with someone warm at your side, watching the sun come up. But that’s never been what love is like for me. Because in my experience, love cares a lot less about what I want and a lot more about what it needs to keep breathing. It’s never felt like a choice to me. It’s always been a demand—a pair of blue-black eyes asking a question that isn’t a question, knowing that yes is the only answer I’ve ever been able to give.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“There is no outrunning it. There is no reasoning with it. There is no begging it for mercy. Punishment always comes, even if there’s no one left to give it.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“when people treat you like a monster for so long, sometimes the only thing to do is act like one. -”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“If I’ve learned anything in all that time, it’s that nothing, nothing is free. Especially not for people like me. You either steal it, or you pay for it. And the life of a thief has its own costs. Nobody just gives you anything—you usually just don’t know the price until it’s too late.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“Home is a place where I am enough.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside

“Like if tomorrow the oceans dried up and the mountains fell and the world decided to collapse in on itself, knowing each other was enough. Home is a place where I am enough.”
― Brooke Lauren Davis, The Hollow Inside