Stolen Hearts Quotes

“Being touched like this was a revelation. Like suddenly being worshiped, when all my life I’d only been forsaken.”
― M. O'Keefe, Ruined

“What would it be like, I wondered, to live like Zilla. To not see or not care about all the strings that attached us to other people. All the ways our actions had consequences and those consequences had consequences. To do whatever I wanted was not an option I’d ever had.”
― M. O'Keefe, Ruined

“What am I supposed to do with a girl with so many lies in her mouth?”
― M. O'Keefe, Stolen Hearts

“Oh, he’d taken plenty. Some things he’d taken in great handfuls. Giant pieces. My dreams of being a teacher. My education. My autonomy. And some I’d simply handed him, learning quickly that my dignity meant more to him than it did to me. And now I owned this house. Everything that had been his. Everything he’d taken from me, I had a chance to get back. How? How does someone do that? Like, in what drawer would I find my ambition? My confidence? Was my faith on a bookshelf in his office? I imagined finding those things, putting them on like jewelry. Too-big rings that would fall off my fingers. Who the fuck am I anymore?”
― M. O'Keefe, Ruined

“How am I supposed to survive you?” …
“You’re not.”
― M. O'Keefe, Ruined

“You don’t want me. You want the way I make you feel.”
“I want all of it.”
― M. O'Keefe, Ruined