Vipers and Virtuosos Quotes

“You have scars, but they don’t have you.” I’m not sure if either of us is breathing anymore. “And you, Riley fucking Kelly, are beautiful in a way that’d make the constellations weep.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“The only thing I mourned was that I didn’t light the match.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“could, but eventually everyone comes to a point in their lives where they have to own up to their shortcomings. Our experiences are meant to mold, not define us.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“part of why we work so well is that we’re both fucked in the head. Equally tangled up in one another.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Some people don’t know how to reach others when it’s never been done for them. Just because he doesn’t show up for you in the ways you think he ought to, doesn’t mean he’s not showing up.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“all logical thought seems to cease when I’m around him. That feels like a red flag, but with rose-tinted glasses, I find it difficult to care.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“At least when you’re on fire, you know you’re alive.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“You have scars, but they don't have you." I'm not sure if either of us is breathing anymore. "And you, Riley fucking Kelly, are beautiful in a way that'd make the constellations weep.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“At least when you're on fire, you know you're alive.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“I’ll choose his warmth, even if it means getting burned. At least when you’re on fire, you know you’re alive.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“is that I know what to call you when I collect my dues.” My eyebrows scrunch together, and his jump. “You weren’t for sale to him, angel, because I already paid for you.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“It’s acknowledging an imbalance of power and reinforcing it for the person who holds more.” Slow thrust. Grind. Repeat. “It’s you trusting me to use that power to please you. To corrupt you.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“i happen to like that my home has a heartbeat”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“How do you know she has a latex allergy?” Caleb asks, and I want to pinch my eyes closed, because even I anticipate what’s about to come out of Aiden’s mouth. The rock star grins. “How do you think I know?”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“You’re spiraling for no reason.” He stops pacing and sighs. “They wouldn’t call it spiraling if it made sense.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“The words claw their way up my chest, heavy with the weight of self-flagellation I’ve carried my whole life. Shame I felt for things I had no control over. Grief for the girl I could have been—should have been,”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“I lean against the frame, letting his words rake over my skin and soak up the scene in front of me. The items of clothing from my closet back home, all the scrap sheets of music and peppermints—empty and not—everything I’ve been hoarding for years, because of this obsessive fucking thought that they’d one day become important. That I’d need them for something other than to scratch the weird itch in my brain. Things I carry with me, like phantoms I can’t possibly get rid of, no matter how hard I try.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“I’m not happy I’m alive. I’m not proud of my trauma, or the person it made me. It hurts, and I hate it.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“I don’t want to leave my bed at any point of the day. Dragging myself from it is the purest form of torture; my body sags into the mattress each morning, desperate to return to my unconscious state, where the only things that hurt me are figments of my imagination. It’s a wonder I’ve been productive during my stay so far, at all, when apathy hangs over me like an angry storm cloud, constantly coating my skin in its acidic rain.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Warmth fills my chest like rays of sunshine, but it’s the kind that doesn’t quite reach your limbs because parts of you are stuck in the shadows.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“I got to a place where I was functioning through the day, so I think he assumed I was okay. That I wasn’t hollow anymore, just because I’d resumed eating and sleeping and watching television. Or maybe that’s just what he wanted to believe. But the truth is, it’s not possible to heal from things you can’t see. Even invisible wounds hurt, and mine have scarred so deeply by now that I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to move on.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“I used to think that outside hatred couldn’t touch you when your self-deprecation screamed louder. Thought I was protected because I’d spent an entire lifetime despising myself. Thought the opinions of others didn’t matter, because no one would ever be harder on me than me.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Questioning coincidence only leads to trouble.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Fuck, how I could ruin this man. If he were anyone else, I might even try—but the sixteen-year-old buried deep inside me is begging me not to. She still clings to the hope that one day, we’ll be whole again. That the stains on our soul might disappear if enough time passes. But I know better; the darkness in us is a quicksand, seeking out others to devour.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Our experiences are meant to mold, not define us.” “You should put that on a T-shirt.” “Maybe I’ll have one made and sent out to you as a Christmas gift.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Because I’m not the solution to Riley’s problems. I’m the root cause.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Every time, it feels like coming home.
And maybe you're not supposed to find that in other people, but I can't imagine what a lonely existence it must be to leave your heart with empty buildings only.
I happen to like that my home has a heartbeat.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Doesn't it feel so much better when you do what I ask, pretty girl?”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“My mother used to say beautiful things were wrought from the most unimaginable pain.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos

“Aiden refused, of course, and now Orphic Productions is handling the relaunching of Calliope Santiago’s pop career.”
― Sav R. Miller, Vipers and Virtuosos