Heavy Crown Quotes

“There’s no pleasure quite like reading, is there? Sometimes it’s the only thing that eases my mind.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I'm a mafia daughter too, she says, I know how little power you have in your own life...until you rip it out of a man's hands.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“That’s what I’m expecting when I pick up the heavy envelope with its expensive slate gray stationary.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“the night I met Yelena was a turning point. A singular event that altered the course of my life.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Fire doesn’t always mean death and destruction. Sometimes it clears away the old and rotten brush so that new things can grow.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Revenge is for people who have only themselves to consider.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Don’t you dare cry for him. It’s your fault he’s dead.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The weight of it. Of all of it. It’s heavy and it’s relentless.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“a pair of filthy old sneakers are jumbled in the corner. Oddly, one sneaker is much dirtier than the other.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The face of a warrior princess... the body of an amazon... the spirit of a wild wolf... surely I can find that again in a girl whose father doesn't crush skulls and break spines for entertainment.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I close the card and slip it into its colored envelope. Then I seal it and write the address. I don’t really expect Adrian to respond. Sometimes you have to reach out. Even when you know you’re only reaching into empty air.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“. . we are who we are. You never wanted the crown, but it came to you. I never wanted to be a Bratva’s daughter, but I killed Rodion and I’d kill again if I had to. I want choice in my life . . . but I’m not afraid of the darker side of myself. I hated it when I thought I was split into two halves—good like my mother and evil like my father. Now I think . . . they’re both just me. And they always have been.” I thought something similar. I thought I was a good man until a switch flipped inside of me and the monster was unleashed. Now I wonder if Yelena is right, if she and I are simply a shade of gray. I wonder if we could be comfortable in a straight-edge life, law abiding and upstanding, never making use of that other part of ourselves.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“. we are who we are. You never wanted the crown, but it came to you. I never wanted to be a Bratva’s daughter, but I killed Rodion and I’d kill again if I had to. I want choice in my life . . . but I’m not afraid of the darker side of myself. I hated it when I thought I was split into two halves—good like my mother and evil like my father. Now I think . . . they’re both just me. And they always have been.” I thought something similar. I thought I was a good man until a switch flipped inside of me and the monster was unleashed.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“In our world, there’s always another enemy. Always another threat. Yenin is gone. But who will take his place?”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“My family’s house is going up in flames like a tinderbox. Everything is burning—the pictures of my great-grandparents in their dusty frames. The posters on my bedroom walls. My mother’s piano. I never could have let this happen if my father were still alive—it would have killed him. But like Yenin, I’m willing to lose something I love to get my revenge. I sacrificed a piece that had great value to me to lure him out of his car.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“He’s trying to make me lose my temper. Maybe because he doesn’t want to be used as bait against his father. Maybe he thinks I’m stupid enough to untie him so I can beat the shit out of him better. What he doesn’t realize is that all my wild emotion has been burned away. I’m finally taking my father’s advice—the last piece he gave me. Play the endgame like a machine. I’m a fucking android now. Nothing will stray me from my course. Rodion dies. Yenin dies. Adrian dies. There will be no loose ends this time. No forgiveness. No enemies left alive to seek their revenge on me and my family.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Yelena turned her back on us. She proved herself to be exactly what my father always said she was—a woman, with a woman’s weakness.” “You and your father have a man’s arrogance.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The survival of each of our families depends on destroying the people that the other loves. No amount of conversation can change that. And the more time I spend next to Yelena, the more I can’t bear to do what has to be done. I wish I ran away with her the day I met her. In a game of winners and losers, the only happy ending was not to play at all.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“We can’t leave Seb alone in this. You owe him, Callum, you know you do. And so do I. The night that brought us together ruined his life. He’s never blamed me. He’s never complained. And besides that, Cal, Alexei Yenin is a fucking psychopath—no offense, Yelena. He is coming after all of us. If we’re going to join World War II, let’s do it now and not after Pearl Harbor.” Callum frowns. “Don’t use the History Channel against me, Aida.” “CAL!”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I’m still wearing the tattered Converse, pajama pants, and a ripped Van Halen t-shirt. To make matters worse, my shoulder is bleeding again, and it’s soaking through the bandage, spotting the front of the shirt. “You know, those shoes saved my life once,” Aida says cryptically. “Or at least, one of them did . . .”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“As I look down on the baby, I feel the strangest rush of emotion. I never particularly wanted a child. I felt like I’d barely lived my own life yet. But the thought of having a baby like this, with soft dark curls like Sebastian’s, and maybe his autumn brown eyes, too . . . I didn’t know you could want something so suddenly and so hard.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“Play the opening like a book. The middlegame like a magician. And the endgame like a machine. When this whole thing began, I played by the rules. I did everything the way I was supposed to—I met with Yenin, and I signed the contract. Now it’s time to become a magician instead. It’s time to surprise and shock him. It’s time to make everything he holds dear turn to dust in his hands, without him understanding how it’s even happening. And then in end . . . I’ll kill them all, as cold and relentless as any machine. Without hesitation, without mistakes, and without mercy.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The love I feel for her is still there, stronger than ever. But it’s drenched in pain and regret. It hurts to look at her, and yet I can’t look away.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“The truth is, I’m not actually trying to prove anything to Sebastian. I’m proving it to myself. What I said was true—I’ll do anything for him. Before, I made a decision based off fear and selfishness. I won’t do that again. Even if it scares me, even if I’m embarrassed . . . I want to see what will happen if I give myself to him, without holding anything back.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“another part of me, the deeper part, the part that refuses to give up or give in, has decided that I’m going all the way to the end of the line. Whatever that may be.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“In this moment I want Yelena to feel every sensation to a fever pitch, just like I am. Whatever it takes, I have to get her to understand how she puts me through a shredder every time I see her, how my bond to her is painful and terrifying, how she hurt me worse than my knee, worse than losing my mother, worse than anything that’s happened to me in my life. And yet I still fucking need her. I can’t stop it; I can’t turn it off. She has this power over me, and I need to exert my power over her. I need to know that she wants me just as badly, that she’ll tear herself to pieces for me, just like I’ll do for her.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“It’s incredibly erotic to have her chained up, completely at my mercy. It’s even more erotic to see the look of determination in her fiercely narrowed eyes. She thinks she’s going to rise to this challenge. I think I’m going to break her.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I lean over and put my lips right next to her ear. “I’m going to push you to the limit, Yelena. Any time you want, you can tell me to stop. I’ll stop, and I’ll leave. But if you want to me to stay . . . if you want to be mine . . . it’s not gonna be so easy this time. I want ALL of you. I want every last fucking shred of you. Body and soul, you belong to me. I want you bare, vulnerable, and willing. I want to know you aren’t holding anything back from me this time.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I thought from the minute I met her that she looked like a warrior princess. Well, now she’s been captured from the barbarians. Now she belongs to me. I took her. I married her. And now I own her. She says she loves me? Well, she can fucking prove it.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown

“I look at her standing there—the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, and the most ferocious. Even half dressed, locked up in a cell for days, she remains unbowed and unbroken. She won’t submit. Not to that beast Rodion, and not to her psychotic father. But she just might submit to me.”
― Sophie Lark, Heavy Crown