Riot Act Quotes

“The path of least resistance doesn’t always mean taking the easiest option. Sometimes…it means that your soul finds its way home, towards something it loves, after you’ve held it back for too fucking long.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“I’d find a way to rip the goddamn moon right out of the sky if you begged me for it.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“I wat you to be mine. I-I’m fucking in love with you, Chase. I want to learn how to show you that. I want to make you fucking believe it.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“In the small, dark corner of my soul that still wants things, I recognize that I’ve claimed her and she’s mine now. It’ll be a long fucking time before I’m ready to admit that out loud.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“I have feelings for Chase. Big ones. Scary ones. Run-away-and-hide-in-a-dark-closet feelings.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“The truth is that she’s way more than a friend to me and the both of us know it. Knowing something and being ready to own it are very different things, though.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“Pax encompasses me. He always has. Every dark, angry, ugly part of him, wrapped up in such a devilishly beautiful package. He’s hostile and he’s hateful, and he wields his anger like a blade. There is nothing good about him. But when I’m with him, I can let go. I don’t think anymore. I don’t rage against my own inner pain. The waking nightmares that plague me every second of the day have no power over me in his presence. I used to crave him because of how he looked. Because of how he made me feel. Now, I crave him because, around him, I can surrender. I can feel nothing at all.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“I saw this happening.
I fucking felt it.
I told myself it wasn’t real. That I could outrun it. Escape it.
I told myself that I wouldn’t fall victim to the same bullshit human condition as my friends, but damn.
I’ve been such a stupid cunt.
Arrogant.
To think I was bigger than this.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“Years of animosity and violence have made their mark on me. It’s hard to tamp down the drive to wrap myself in sharp barbs, to protect myself from this…this…whatever this is. I’m so drawn to her at the same time, magnetized to her, hands itching to reach out and touch her again, that I feel like I’m losing my mind.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“When all a person has ever known is misery…it’s what they come to expect. Soon, they feed on it, because it’s the only sustenance they know. Eventually, their misery becomes their strength. They can endure so much more than anyone else. You’ll be surprised by what I can endure now. And once the surprise has worn off, you’ll see that you’re powerless to hurt me.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“He is magnificent. He’s also the cruellest, most unbearable asshole I’ve ever come across.
Want something? Pax will take it away from you.
Love something? Pax will destroy it.
Love him? Then Heaven help you. You’d have to be the stupidest person to walk the face of the earth.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act

“I don’t conform to hierarchical ideology, Jarvis, I’m a human being. You’re a human being. We’re equals. I’m not going to bow in deference to you just because you’ve been a human being longer than I have, and you chose to pursue a path in life whereby you’re financially rewarded for sharing knowledge with me. That doesn’t make you any better than ma. Respect is earned. Me calling you by your first name has nothing to do with that in any way.”
― Callie Hart, Riot Act