Devil Incarnate Quotes

“The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“It’s not the first time we’ve made love in the kitchen to the smell of something burning. But it’s the first time I’ve been able to look down into his hooded eyes and know that we both want this to last forever. For better or for worse. Devils in the flesh.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Little Red, we’ve been through a lot of shit together. Some of it’s been good. Some of it’s been bad. A lot of it’s been really, unbelievably erotic.” I take in a stunned inhale and his mouth twitches. “I’ve waited, Georgia, and I’ve tried to show you I’m good enough. I don’t know if it’s worked, because deep down, I’m pretty sure I’m not.” Before I can argue, he rushes on, “I know your family still hates me. I can’t buy you jewels and treat you like a princess, although I know you well enough to realize you’d hate that, anyway.” “Heston—” “What I’m trying to say is that I know you, and I love you. You’re it for me.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“With it, I tell her that much like the scarves she painstakingly knits, Georgia has built herself a family, weaving all of us in and out, intertwining our lives. I tell her that I’m thankful to be one of the threads, tethered to something tangible and bright.  Something that won’t let me float away.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I tip her face up, staring down into her pretty green eyes. “Sometimes you save me from drowning, too.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I’m not a new person, Bass. I’m just trying to be a better version of the regular one.” Wryly, I add, “I’m shooting for twice my blue book value.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Georgia is the Devils’ angel. And maybe, if I keep doing stuff like this, she’ll be mine.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“It’s just this problem. This problem where I’m hopelessly, stupidly, recklessly in love with their friend.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Someone very wise once told me you can’t raise a child when you’re acting like one.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I tip down to push a kiss into her hair. “I can be a dick, if you want. It is my factory setting.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I know that I’ll always remember the way he looked right then, standing so tenaciously as he burned his life to the ground. It’s the moment I realized Heston Wilcox loves me.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I just needed you to know, because you’re the only good thing in my life. Everything else has been a constant avalanche of shit. My family. Collins. Gene. Everything just always fucking sucks now. But you? You’re the one thing here that’s worth half a damn. And I fucked it up.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I’ve only said those words to one other person, and she’s the woman who gave birth to me. You’re pissed at me, I get it. But don’t fucking mock me because you can’t handle the truth. I love you.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I just want to be a good person for her.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Thanks,” I say, giving him a mockingly coy curtsey. When I’m back to my full height, I point to the tiara. “Like my horcrux?”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“H: You’re beautiful, Georgia. I told you before. Perfect.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Exorbitant overspending to make up for a lack of personality. Yep, sounds like my little brother.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Maybe it’s time to just…” I flap my hand in an anxious gesture. “Let him be the change we all want to see in the world. Give him a chance.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“For whatever little it may be worth, I don’t really think you’re a slut.” I shiver as he gathers up my hair, sweeping it off my neck. Into the skin beneath it, he whispers, “I think you’re my slut.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“You’d think after all this time, he’d understand.  A Devil never loses.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“But Georgia’s the school bicycle. Everyone’s taken a ride. She’s not the girl you tag as your own. She’s the girl you do on the side when the girl you’ve marked isn’t putting out satisfactorily.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I don’t want people to think I’m a whore. It’s just not fair. Guys can fuck around all they want, with whoever they want, and no one bats an eye. The patriarchy sucks.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“You, the person who’s seen more ceilings than Michelangelo, are asking if I’m an STD risk. Are you fucking shitting me?”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“No one wants to fuck you, Heston. You’re a twenty-one-year-old college drop-out who has no friends, no family, and no future.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I’m Heston fucking Wilcox. I don’t take anyone’s pity. I don’t need anyone’s pity. Ever.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“You sound like you only have one sibling,” he says, reaching into the bag for more. “I have four, so let me give you some wisdom; that’s the secret to familial harmony. Everyone gets their ‘thing’. Mine is dance.” He flashes me a winning smile. “That and being fucking awesome.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“I have four, so let me give you some wisdom; that’s the secret to familial harmony. Everyone gets their ‘thing’. Mine is dance.” He flashes me a winning smile. “That and being fucking awesome.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“That was quite the glow-up you had over the summer, Adams.” He gives me a sharp look, saying, “Bitch, I’ve always glowed.”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate

“Shouldn’t you be taking a fat one from behind, in prison?”
― Angel Lawson, Devil Incarnate