Wrath of an Exile Quotes

“I’m always fucking seeing you, Phi. In every room, no matter how much I want to ignore you, you burn too fucking bright. You’re the goddamn sun, and I hate that I can’t stop looking at you.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“But for her? I’d kneel.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Can I still be considered a girl’s girl if I have the urge to it run her over with my car? I’m not jealous. I’m just…mildly homicidal.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Give it to me, Phi.” I seethe, the words barely escaping through clenched teeth. “Give me all your pain, all your hurt, every ounce of that rage in your vicious fucking heart. I can take it.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Watch your fucking mouth when you’re speaking to my wife.” Rook’s voice cuts through the air like a serrated blade, scorched and swift. Shoulders tensed, he wears a look I can only describe as pure evil in his features.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I wanted to be that. A flame, a blaze, an inferno. I wanted people to be afraid of touching me.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Pain can turn us into people we were never meant to be.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I named you Seraphina because your father’s name means smoke.” Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. ”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“How’s our universe, baby?”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“But this crack in her armor, it makes me curious. Curious enough to stand here a little longer, watching her like some puzzle I can’t solve.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Her pink mouth curves into a grin, an authentic smile. Briefly, just briefly, it knocks the fucking breath out of me. My lungs struggle to expand, brain forgetting how to operate simple bodily functions. Phi smiles at everyone. It’s not rare for that grin to make an appearance. Kinda like the sun rising each morning, even when it doesn’t feel like it. Phi’s natural default is to be a beam of light, anywhere, anytime. But this is the first time Seraphina Van Doren has ever smiled at me.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“If you hurt my niece, I will give your spine to my wife as an anniversary gift,” Thatcher says, voice low and steady, the kind of threat that doesn’t need repeating.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“When it’s just us, like this, either lost in pleasure or settled with one another, I feel like nothing can touch this. We exist in a world of our own making— a secret garden of intimacy and raw emotion that no one else can access.
It’s all ours, and no one can take it from us.
I think I’ve been waiting my entire life for Jude Sinclair.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“You don’t get it, do you? I always see you.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Right here, right now, we’re no one. There’s no history. No last names. You’re just Jude. I’m just Phi. We can create something that’s ours.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I just want it to stop— the pain, the anger, the endless cycle of tearing myself apart and putting the pieces back together.
I’m tired. So tired of fighting. Tired of bleeding, inside and out.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I’m the only one allowed to hate you.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I glance up from under the hood, spotting him in his work clothes—tie loosened, shirtsleeves rolled up to expose his tattooed arms, creases of a long day softened by the dim garage light.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Love is the only drug I’ve ever wanted in my bloodstream. Craved and crippled my heart for it. It’s the core of human existence. Forever wanting what we will never have”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Trauma isn’t confined to the person who endures it. Its impact ripples outward”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“To the friends whose names are still spray painted beside mine on that rusted water tower. The wild nights in our Nowhereville town gave me everything I needed to write the love shared between these Heathens”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“And if it all comes crashing down, I’ll still take every broken piece of it, knowing I chose him and he chose me, despite the world that begged us not to.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Never again. I’ll never need anyone. I can’t need anyone.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“He gets to witness the sun when it’s cold and distant. I want to explore the dark side of the moon.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I’ve made a home in my cave tonight. Leave me to rot.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I want her dizzy, dazed, until she finally understands that in our twisted little universe? She belongs to me. Only me.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Her violence. Her rage. The seething self-loathing that’s barely held together by threads of pride. I want to own them. Fight her for it, to rip it from her with my teeth if I have to, until it’s all mine.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“To destroy is to make room for creation,” Jude murmurs, a subtle edge in the words. “Destruction strips everything to the bone. That’s where art comes from.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Now isn’t the time to be smart with me, kid. Trust me.” “Should I reschedule?” I arch a brow, voice dripping with sarcasm. Thatcher chuckles, the sound devoid of humor. “Karma is truly the sweetest gift. How’s your medicine taste, Van Doren?”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Soon, I’m going to make Oakley Wixx regret breathing. Right now? I’m going to make it crystal fucking clear that I’m not the villain in her story.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile