City of Ruin Quotes

“I think I’ve loved you for my entire life,” I whisper. “And when we’re both gone, I will love you still.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“We all play the villain in someone’s tale,”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“If you stay, then I’ll find you when this is over, no matter where you are, and I’ll do what I must to remind you of what we’ve shared. Because that boy—” he stabs a finger toward the main house “—could try with all his might for all his life to love you like you deserve, and he still wouldn’t set your soul on fire the way I just did with a single touch.” He dips his head, holding my gaze. “I know I make you happy, Raina. I’ve felt your joy. Your passion. Your love. Even if you never spoke the word to me, I felt it blooming. And I will feel it again.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“I think I’ve loved you for my entire life,” I whisper. “And when we’re both gone, I will love you still.” My”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“There is no other. You are my only temple.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Even when you have eternity, there aren’t enough second chances.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“I have been called Beauty. I have been called Love. But I am Fury, and some fool is going to bring me back to life.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“My heart feels discovered. Like a lost thing finally found by the one meant to hold it.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“If I ever see you touch her like that again, I’ll carry your head around on a motherfucking pike.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“That kind of love, the kind that makes you want to tear down mountains with your bare hands, is the most powerful force in the universe.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Control and desire are often disguised as love. One just has to be able to tell the difference between the fraud and the truth.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“We are not only products of our parents, but the ancestors who came before us as well. Their souls sing a mighty echo in our veins.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Trust that you are making the right decisions, Raina. Trust your instinct. You are here because your blood sang a song of trust and you listened. Believe that your intuition is a gift that will never fail you.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“But Fate isn’t what you think it is, my girl. Fate doesn’t carve our life’s road, nor does it decide our destiny. We do. Fate only places people, events, and choices in our path. It’s up to us to navigate the labyrinth of love, loss, happiness, and pain that is borne from those experiences.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“It killed me that you were the man I had to lock in my dungeon, when all I've ever wanted since that night we kissed was for you to be the man at my side and in my bed. I wanted your heart, yet I had your disgust. I wanted your affection, yet I had your loathing. I wanted YOU, yet I had loneliness.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“If you so much as lay a finger on her, I will torture you from here to eternity, so brutally that you will beg me to carve out your heart with my hands because that would be a kinder end. Don’t think I won’t commit to the task. I know how to persist.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“If you think I'm too reserved to drag you into the shadows and take you like the beast that I am, then you are sorely mistaken, my love.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“I don’t hide anything. I have no fear anymore. Any darkness, she has destroyed with her light. Every shadowy, gloomy place inside me feels remade because of her. I feel healed.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“I'm so in love with that infuriating woman, and one day—one day—she will realize how much she loves me too.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“This is only the start of a much larger story. But Fate isn’t what you think it is, my girl. Fate doesn’t carve our life’s road, nor does it decide our destiny. We do. Fate only places people, events, and choices in our path. It’s up to us to navigate the labyrinth of love, loss, happiness, and pain that is borne from those experiences.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Fate doesn’t carve our life’s road, nor does it decide our destiny. We do. Fate only places people, events, and choices in our path. It’s up to us to navigate the labyrinth of love, loss, happiness, and pain that is borne from those experiences.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Youth makes fools of us all,”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“I swear I have loved you all my life. And when we are gone from this world, I will love you still.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“you are fucking mine, and nothing and no one is going to take you from me.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“But Fate isn’t what you think it is, my girl. Fate doesn’t carve our life’s road, nor does it decide our destiny. We do. Fate only places people, events, and choices in our path. It’s up to us to navigate the labyrinth of love, loss, happiness, and pain that is borne from those experiences. Granted, sometimes Fate fights for two souls to come together, and that is not a thing to take lightly.” She smiles and touches my”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“We all play the villain in someone’s tale, Raina.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Fate only places people, events, and choices in our path. It’s up to us to navigate the labyrinth of love, loss, happiness, and pain that is borne from those experiences.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“I lock eyes with those of a dead man whose blond head happens to be removed from his body.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“A gift,” I say, dumbfounded. “For me.” “There’s no one else on this ship that I would do as much for, I can assure you.” “But we hate one another.” He laughs. “Do we, now? I wasn’t sure.” “The sword to your throat the other morning wasn’t a clue?” He smiles at the memory. “You were also straddling me. My brain received mixed messages.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin

“Once we’re all set and no one is killing anyone, Mari and Yaz finish bringing the dinner in.”
― Charissa Weaks, City of Ruin