Solita Quotes

“In my time,” he continues, voice low, “sanctity was measured by suffering. Those saints that abstained from the pleasures of life, fasted to starvation, mortified their flesh, drank the blood of the wounded—it was only they who saw the eyes of God, it was only through their agony that they were touched by true divinity, enraptured by their own faith.” “I… I’m not a saint, Silas.” Her eyes meet his in a gaze that’s wrapped up in the promise for everything she’s always denied herself. The promise of temptation for the taste of that forbidden fruit, a single bite all it takes for irreversible expulsion, for an eternal fall from grace. “I never said you were.” The warmth of his breath is so close to her own, heat mingling, pulses flush close. “Then what are you saying?” “That I am,” he answers. “I found God. And I’m looking into her eyes.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Here he is…” Lorenzo turns on his heel to greet his brother with a faux bow. “The Espinosa Infante. The heir, the prodigal son, the only Espinosa that ever mattered.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“His fingers dig hard into her skin”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“My parents, my friends—they all left me behind. He’s the only one who stayed. He’s always been here for me. He deserves to be happy, and I couldn’t even give him that. I spent so much time thinking I could—but Odette has only proven that I’m not good enough for it.” Her voice grows softer and softer until it’s nothing more than a near-whisper as she winds closer and closer to the words encased within her prison of a heart. “Just like I’m not good enough to make my mom happy. I wasn’t enough for her in life, and I’m not enough for her in death.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Girls blinded by their own grief… come on Sadie, can’t you see that he’s using you?” Sadie lets out a sharp, frustrated sigh. “Because you know so well what it’s like to use someone, don’t you?! You of all people! Everything you’re accusing him of is everything you’ve done to me. All you’ve ever done is take my grief and twist it whenever you needed someone to come back to, whenever you needed someone to keep you in check!”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Jesus, Sadie. Where are you going?” Isaiah darts forward, reaching out to grip her forearm. “It doesn’t matter to you.” Sadie hisses, “After all, it’s not like you’ll be alone, right?”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“digging her nails into the skin of her palms.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Taking her hand in his, Sadie almost winces at his grip as he pulls her out of her bedroom.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Isaiah closes the distance between he and Sadie, taking no time to hesitate in wrapping his fingers a little too tightly around her wrist.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Sadie presses her hand to Isaiah’s chest in an attempt to cool him off, but there’s a fire under his skin that’s burning not for her; but for him and his damaged pride. “I wasn’t talking to you.” Isaiah’s grits his teeth.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“her resolve has only strengthened, and she slips her phone back into the bag, leaving him on read.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Focusing on stilling her rapid-fire heart, she digs her fingers into her skin,”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“she digs her nails into the edge of the mattress”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“You chose to come here, remember? You chose this place as your little hide out from your dad—it’s nothing but an escape for you. Just a beach you can pack up and fly out to whenever you feel like it. Just because you can.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Tension thicker than the summer heat winds around them both like a dwindling thread reaching its end in the bobbin of a sewing machine.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“My dad died… and mom killed herself.” She takes a step closer, Odette shifting her weight in response. “Isaiah and I… we didn’t have anyone else.” “Sadie, I’m so—” “—You’re not sorry.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“She jumped from the cliffs of Infanta Bay.” An uncomfortable silence sits between them, and Sadie relishes in it. “I…I never knew.” Of course you didn’t. “There’s a lot that you don’t know, Odette. There’s a lot that happened when you were gone.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“From the tired lines beneath her eyes, her frazzled hair, her sun-soaked skin—she’s all the imperfection, the sorrow, the loneliness that Odette simply isn’t.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Isaiah: About last night… Sadie’s heart constricts, mind racing as she devours every word. Isaiah: We really shouldn’t do that again. Odette: It’s not a big deal. It’s not like you guys are official, right?”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Their faces are melted, almost unrecognizable if it weren’t for Sadie’s proximity to the flame. With their skin dripping like wax from the charred muscle beneath, there’s nothing much more to hold the shape of their faces upright, the fire pulling down at their mandibles so that it looks as if each woman is letting out one final, silent plea of agony.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Your fear is our blood,” Silas’ father calls out his final command, “And how we must drink.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“coming face to face with a disemboweled torso that rises up from the bloodied sand like a dune of flesh, the ribs jutting out from the gored wound like fingers reaching out for her soul.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“He’s not coming for you,”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“She hears the creaking of a floorboard, and she whips around in the dark, for a brief moment believing Isaiah has followed her back to the Hacienda.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“turning whip fast on her heel to rid herself of the fact that she’ll never be Odette; she’ll never be that happy, carefree girl sitting on the beach under the starlight.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Isaiah squeezes Sadie’s shoulders, peering deep into her eyes, “Hear that? Must be a sign that something good’s coming. Why don’t you head back to the Hacienda? Go and rest. I’ll take Odette home.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Isaiah and Odette sit side by side, the two of them huddled close together, perhaps a little too close.”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“How can she have faith in Isaiah when there’s nothing left inside her to bestow it?”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Despite the lack of texts, the late hour, despite the booze lacing his breath and Odette’s perfume clinging to his shirt. Trust in Him,”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita

“Cheeks courting scarlet, she wills herself to focus on the sun-faded spines staring back at her as the rustle of Silas undressing fights hard to pull at her attention. Red, black, ivory white… she names each spine’s color as she twists her fingers together. Mahogany brown, duck-egg blue…”
― Vivien Rainn, Solita