Ominous Quotes

“Tempus edax rerum. Time devours all things.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Do you not like taking hints or do you just enjoy me cutting myself open for you?” He smiles with the question, but there’s still an edge to the morbid words.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Anger over fear, because one makes you move and the other can freeze you.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Touch me, so I can see if I hate the way you feel like I do everyone else.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“We all want someone to want all the fucked-up parts of us, don’t we?” She glances at me. “Yours just happen to be a little more fucked than the rest of us.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Why does everything always feel so heavy between us?” It takes me by surprise, her question. But it gets under my skin, too, because there’s nothing about it that isn’t true. “Because it’s the only way we can feel,” I answer her, my nails biting into her palm. “Deeply, or not at all.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Because it’s the only way we can feel,” I answer her, my nails biting into her palm. “Deeply, or not at all.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Yeah. Everyone wants to pretend they’re sympathetic to people with mental illnesses until they start showing signs of being mentally fucking ill.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“No one wants to be the recipient of one of those disorders with no cure, no treatment, no understanding.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Haunted memories, waking up in a cold sweat because they infected your dreams, remembering you have no future because you live with a brain which hates you, imagining someone you love walking out, over and over and over… Therapists. Medications. Psychiatrists. Studies. Blood on your hands. No one wants that. No one wants the reality of mental illness.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“She is a mess, she’s decided, and no one wants a mess. Not a real one. Not an unromanticized version of one.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Maybe because I know I’d never truly hurt her. As it is, I think she has the most power to hurt me. I’m just not sure she recognizes it yet.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“It makes the thought of the future hurt that much more. I think I’d let him get away with anything at all, stabbing me over and over and over, if only he would beg me to come back, over and over again, just like this. The torture kind of makes life worth living. The power makes me feel loved.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Don’t make me toss you off of this balcony.” She tightens her grip, her chest pressing closer to me. “You wouldn’t.” Her eyes find my mouth. “You’d miss me too much.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“I know you’re a filthy little…”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Our souls don’t know how to crawl closer. We run head on, seeing the impact up ahead, but we can’t stop. Or maybe we just don’t want to. We know the wreck will be worth it.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“We skipped the small talk because two souls know when they’re conceived to collide. They don’t need an introduction. They just fucking ruin each other without a hello.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“You want someone to know all of your bullshit, and want you anyway, because you’re so tired of pretending, aren’t you?”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“I’d lie down at her feet, I’d do anything she asked me to, I’d let her hurt me and punish me if she wanted,”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“The right side sees the romance in the darkness.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Him: I didn’t shower. I still smell like you. Him: It’s driving me fucking crazy.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“You’re so fucking perfect for me.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“You have to hold your breath a long time to go that far under.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“He’s like the ocean, you know. The surface always looks so calm, most nights,” I don’t miss the fact she uses night instead of day, “but underneath, it could be hell, and no one would ever know, unless they dive in deep.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“If you act like your secrets matter, anyone who steals one has power over you.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“The torture kind of makes life worth living. The power makes me feel loved. It’s why we won’t make it. You can only survive so many knife wounds before you simply… bleed out.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“I think I’d let him get away with anything at all, stabbing me over and over and over, if only he would beg me to come back, over and over again, just like this.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“This time, I want someone to bleed for me.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Sometimes, I’m scared to live inside my own head. Sometimes, I think things would be scarier if he lived in there too.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“I close my eyes, and I don’t sleep, but there’s nothing but emptiness in my mind. Despite the storm raging outside, she quiets the one inside of me.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I