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

“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

“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

“You don’t get it, do you? I always see you.”
― 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

“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

“Pretty is boring, refined, chemically processed. I need someone raw, someone I can sink my teeth into. The kind of connection that feels toxic when it floods your veins but is actually the best high you’ll ever chase. One you can’t quit even if you wanted to. 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

“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

“Until I find the one who feels like silence, all of this is just noise.”
― 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

“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

“There is so much agony in your eyes I don’t know how I’m the only one who sees it.” I tighten my fingers at the back of her scalp, leaning down so I can feel her breath on my face. “You’re a goddamn tragedy, Van Doren. But fuck, you’re beautiful.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

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

“I know that weight on your shoulders is heavy. I can see it. When you’re ready, I’m right here, baby. I’m strong enough to help you carry it, always.”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“Dirty, traitorous lust tries to crawl out of my skin, and I have no idea how to stop it.
Jude is catnip for me.
Every reckless and dangerous inch of him is the brand of trouble I love.
It’s the kind that makes me numb. Gives me the kind of adrenaline that blacks out all of the pain, all the memories.
It allows me to just exist.”
― 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

“I’m a tragedy the gods forgot to write.”
― 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

“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

“My summers as a kid were spent at one of Thatcher and Lyra Pierson’s many vacation homes. Even though they had no children themselves”
― Monty Jay, Wrath of an Exile

“I’ve begged God before in my life. As a kid”
― 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