The Truths We Burn Quotes

“I missed you too,” I snicker, my voice raw and scratchy.  “I did miss you. It’s just…” he whispers softly. “Can I keep you?” And my soul breaks because of it.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I’m keeping you.”
… “You’ve always had me, Rook. Always.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“The psycho. The vengeful one. The schizo. And the devil. The Hollow Boys.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“You will never be alone again. Never. Our ashes will be combined,” He pulls me close with the leverage of his grip, and I can smell his smokey scent on my tongue. “So that no matter where we rise from them, we will do it together. Fate might not have chosen me to bear your soul mark, but I will make sure it knows that in this life and all the ones after, I will always be yours. I always have been.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“A darkness, a hunger that lives inside each of us.
Separately, we are just kids born with tragedy leaking from our split veins.
Together, we are utter chaos.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“He is my Lucifer, and it’s time for me to show him I could be his Lilith.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I don’t need it to go anywhere. I know how to handle the bitch in you.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Making sure you're safe"
My heart thuds a little
"Wasn't aware you cared"
"I wish I didn't”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I need you to help me take the mask off. You’re the only person I know not hiding from the world. You burn for it. This place, it’s eating me alive, turning me into a person I don’t recognize. Show me anarchy, show me something violent.” I shake my head, needing to feel that escape. “Show me all your truths, Rook. And I’ll show you mine.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I don’t know what it is I feel towards Sage … But whatever it is, it’s mine.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Can I keep you?”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“We are bad people who do very bad things. Very well.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Dying is easy. Can you burn for me?” I’m not just asking. I’m begging.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“They like to see me in pain. So, they send me visions of you. They feed off my pain, baby. And they get stronger every single day I’m here without you. They are trying to get out.” He presses his hands into the sides of his head. “And I don’t know how to stop them anymore. So, I need you to come back, okay? Please, I just need you to come back. Baby, I need you to save me.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Don’t be an asshole,” he says. “I’m not pissed about you and Sage. I’m pissed that you felt you needed to hide it.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Time doesn’t heal. It helps you forget, and she doesn’t deserve to be forgotten. Ten years from now, am I going to remember how she smelled? Or what she looked like when she smiled? No. She’ll become a memory, and she deserves more than a memory, Rook.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Rose, come back!” He screams a scream that makes chill bumps rise on my skin. It’s his heart begging for her. Pleading for her. “Why didn’t you take me with you?” he cries. “I would’ve gone with you.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I’ve been told since I came back about how I’d fallen from grace. How I’d become someone completely different than who I used to be. But I think that’s because I’m becoming the person I was always meant to be.
And I want to do that, standing next to the person I was always meant to be with.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“He is a human who was hurt by the world. And all I want to do is be the reason he believes in it again. Even if I can’t do the same for myself.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Criminally insane and psychotically hot … Fun to look at , but under no circumstances do you touch.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Lyra sends the silver edge of the blade into the side of Finn’s neck, sinking into the vein like she’s slicing through a ripened fruit. The blood loss is immediate. It spurts from the open wound when she yanks it from the hole.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“We thought we could do the same for you,” she finishes for her.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“He’s able to bore into my body and extract her. He’s a skilled surgeon using scalpels to remove a virus that had taken over my entire system, and every session, he pulls her out more and more.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Proving Rose right.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“You’re not going to sit there and pretend you didn’t come to me the other night, crying, broken, searching for help. Not your boyfriend, not your friend, not even your fucking sister—you came looking for me. You don’t get to pretend you didn’t promise me all your truths. There is no putting the mask back on after I’ve already seen what’s underneath it.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“Sage is a poison apple. Too pretty for her own good, but could kill you with one single bite. Even at the thought of that, I’m still ready to sink my teeth into her.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“She is a force with the power to destroy anything in her way. A phoenix from the ashes. The Lilith to my Lucifer. The one I would burn the entire goddamn planet down for.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“We were supposed to protect her!” The first tear streams down her face, pain leaking from her eyes that no one can heal.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I don’t know what it is I feel towards Sage.” Lightning strikes hard, shaking the ground. “But whatever it is, it’s mine.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn

“I hated her for ruining something that powerful. A bond that my heart desperately tried to argue could not be faked. That what we had was real.”
― Monty Jay, The Truths We Burn