There Is No Devil Quotes

“She’s out of her fucking mind, and so am I. Our madness aligns in all the right ways.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I’m not trying to change who you are. I’m trying to reveal it. A diamond can’t shine until it’s cut.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“It feels like I’ll do anything for you. Jump off a bridge for you, turn myself inside out for you. It feels like madness, and I never want it to end.” Cole considers this, his dark eyes roaming over my face. “Then I must be in love,” he says. “Because that’s what I feel, too.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I don’t want to survive. I want to thrive.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I want all of you. Every single part of you. I want to know everything about you: all your history, and every thought that comes into your head. Every desire, no matter how dark or how perverse. Every fantasy, no matter how impossible it may seem. And most of all, Mara, I want to occupy your thoughts like you occupy mine. I want you obsessed with me, bound to me, dependent on me. I want you to live for me, not just with me.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“He wants to be the center of my universe. I want that, too.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Some mistake has been made: I died, heaven exists, and they let me in.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“You threaten everything I thought I knew, and everything I believed.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“The value in horrible things is what you make of them. As long as you’re alive, you can still turn shit into gold.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“It’s the ones you cut deep, the ones that are ragged, the ones you make over others that are still healing: those stay forever.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Mara is my other half. Not my twin, but the parts of me that were missing.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I’ll admit, it’s not just to protect you. I have to be around you. I’m addicted to you. You fuel me, you light me up inside. Just knowing you’re in the house enlivens me. I can’t go back to the way I was before. I’m afraid of it.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I love you!” she cries. “I fucking love you. Your life starts here, today, now that I’ve told you.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“This is the broken, fucked up part of myself. The part that’s furious over every time that I was hurt or used, but still craves the freedom to seek out roughness and even violence when I want it, on my terms.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“The man who never cared about anyone is fixated on the girl nobody gave a shit about. In some twisted way, we’re made for each other.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Mara, really fucking talented. You’re already a star. Everyone else doesn’t know it yet, but I do. You’re going to make art that makes people think and cry and burn with envy.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Cole smiles at me, unabashed. “I’m not trying to change who you are. I’m trying to reveal it. A diamond can’t shine until it’s cut.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I will never tear you down to other people. I will never degrade you in their eyes. I want to build you up, do you understand that?”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Give me a little credit,” he scoffs. “Whatever else I may be, I was never a man who had to tear a woman down to shine bright beside her. If you’re not as good as me, then you’re no good at all. And when I saw you, Mara … I thought, this girl is really fucking good. I don’t want to hold you down, chop you down, diminish you in any way. I already know I found something special. Now it’s time for everyone else to see it.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Everyone is a mix of good and bad. Can the good cancel out the bad? I don’t know. I’m not sure I even care. If there’s no objective measure, then all that matters is how I feel. Cole is a shade of gray I can accept.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“You deserve to be here as much as anyone. More than anyone. You’re talented, Mara, really fucking talented. You’re already a star. Everyone else doesn’t know it yet, but I do. You’re going to make art that makes people think and cry and burn with envy.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“humans don’t learn things all on our own. Someone has to teach us. It might be necessary for someone to believe in us before we can believe in ourselves. Unloved children are crippled because no one shows them the way.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“We always become like the people that surround us. No human is an island. We’re more like rocks in a tumbler, knocking each other’s rough edges, polishing and refining one another as we pass.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I have to be around you. I’m addicted to you. You fuel me, you light me up inside. Just knowing you’re in the house enlivens me. I can’t go back to the way I was before. I’m afraid of it.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I need to experience his strength, his power, his ruthlessness, because that’s what I need in a man. It’s the only way I feel safe. He has to terrify me so I know he’ll terrify everyone else. I’ve never met a real hero; I don’t think they exist. Only a monster can protect me.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“I’ve had friends, but I was never the most important person in their life, the sun in their solar system.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“It's always better to tell the truth. Lie to the world but not to yourself.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“The man who never cared about anyone is fixated on the girl nobody gave a shit about.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil

“She’s always more surprised by kindness than by cruelty.”
― Sophie Lark, There Is No Devil