Riot Rules Quotes

“I’m so in love with you, Carina Mendoza. I feel like I might die.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“I never wanted to make you cry. I wanted to love you, and I still do.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“Of course I fucking want you. You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my entire life. I wanna corrupt you so fucking bad, it hurts.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“For eighteen years, I’ve walked this earth. I’ve eaten, and slept, and dreamed, but I have never truly felt alive until this moment.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“Whatever you give light to will grow, Dash. Feed something and it’ll flourish. Care enough and the fragile thing in your hands will strengthen. I have faith that you’ll give me what you can until there’s more of it to give. That’s all.”
Jesus fucking Christ. I’m in way over my head here, and I have not been good enough in this life to have earned a second of this girl’s attention, but I’m going to take it, because an opportunity like this doesn’t come around twice.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“You win, Carrie. I give in. You’ve got me. No takebacks. Whatever fucking madness happens next…you can’t say I didn’t warn you.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“Y’know, for centuries, they used to think the moon sent men mad. Like the phases of the moon affected a person’s sanity. Lunatic. That’s where the word came from.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“Precious Carrie. She hasn’t learned anything yet. She knows nothing. But she’s got me. I’m going to show her what her darkness looks like, and once she’s faced it she’ll be free to either embrace or run from it. I hope to fucking god. For my sake and for hers, that she embraces it. I can already tell how much fun we could have together.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“I’m an empty cup, Carina. There’s nothing of any value in here.” He thumps his first against his chest. “My parents are dead inside, and so am I. It’s what I came from. It’s who I was taught to be. Whoever you’re looking for me to be…whatever you’re hoping I might be able to give you…I’m not him. I’m not that guy. I just…can’t.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“Things would be a whole lot easier if that were the case. The problem with telling the truth is that, more often than not, it makes life harder instead of easier. It reopens old wounds and makes them bleed twice as hard. But I’ve had enough of keeping secrets now. I’m done with living in the shadows of the compromises I have made to protect the people I love.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“It’s amazing how pain weaponizes our memories and turns them into bombs.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“I smile a cutthroat smile. The very same one my father used to brandish at a political opponent whenever they made a pointed comment. It’s a casual upward tilt of the mouth that says: I’ll hold my tongue because I am a gentleman. But fair warning. One more incursion and I will open-palm slap you in public like the little bitch that you are.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules

“I couldn’t care less what anyone thinks of me. Every single person I meet on the street, in a hallway or a classroom makes their minds up about me in the breadth and space of time that it takes for a healthy heart to beat. They’re going to think whatever they’re going to think. That’s just what people do.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Rules