Maniac Quotes

“The family that slays together stays together,” Calliope murmured.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“I’m not leaving you. And I’m not letting you leave me. I can’t,” Aiden said. “I know myself. And I know if you deny me again, it will literally become my villain origin story. I will go full-on scorched earth, Tommy. I’ll become the monster you feared your sons would be.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“That man is a hundred red flags made out of silk sheets and you’re too busy worrying about the thread count.” Aiden didn’t even know what that meant but he wasn’t going to be lectured again. It wouldn’t change anything. “The last guy you dated was literally on America’s Most Wanted,” Aiden recalled. “So, sticks and stones…” Lola scoffed. “I didn’t date him. I fucked him. Then I took him to the Marshall’s and collected a big, fat bounty on him. We are not the same.” Arguing with Lola was pointless.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Jericho chuckled. “Easy, Freckles. Let them have their fun. Why don’t you go sit over there? I brought you a granola bar. It’s in my bag.” “You treat him like a toddler,” Adam said. “Your boyfriend still has to remind you to say please and thank you, pretty boy, so who’s the real toddler?” Jericho shot back.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Nothing screams class like a mirrored ceiling,”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Jericho chuckled. “Ignore them, Freckles. We have bigger fish to fry.” “What does that even mean?” Arsen asked. “Like, what does a fish’s size matter?” “Don’t let them lie to you,” the boy with the lollipop told Arsen. “Size matters. Even in fish.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“This was why they stayed away from each other. Being together was death by paper cut and it would hurt so much worse when it was over, but he couldn’t stop.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Somewhere along the way, he’d just…grafted himself to Aiden’s heart, and removing him now would cause a wound so deep he’d bleed out in seconds.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“No matter how good Thomas was at lying to others, it never beat the lies he told himself.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“He was fucking Icarus and he’d finally flown too close to the sun.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“I’m starting to think the Watch isn’t a real place, like Hogwarts, or Dr. X’s academy for mutants,” Adam said. “Tell the truth, you’re just living in the desert getting high all the time and spinning these elaborate fairy tales about psychopathic Gen Zs.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“That man is a hundred red flags made out of silk sheets and you’re too busy worrying about the thread count.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Aiden looked up, catching Thomas’s gaze. “Why did you adopt me?” Thomas sighed, pulling his hand off of Aiden’s. He mourned the loss. But then his palm was cupping Aiden’s cheek. “Because nobody knows better than me what it’s like to live in a house where you’re not wanted.” Something twisted inside Aiden. “Yet, you ended up not wanting me anyway.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“What the fuck was wrong with him? He’d wasted his whole life denying the one person who wanted him, flaws and all. Because he didn’t deserve him. Aiden deserved better. But Thomas had never let him go and find better. He’d just trapped him there in his misery. Because misery loved company and Aiden was just damaged enough, just needy enough to take Thomas’s scraps.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Don’t you get it? The only person who haunts my thoughts is you, Aiden. You’re in my head. Every day. A million times a day,” he admitted, taking a step closer. “At any given moment, at any time of day, you’re the ghost standing just out of view.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“They couldn’t afford to lose Calliope. She was literally the backbone of the entire operation. Without her, they’d be crippled indefinitely. Also, she scared Aiden just a little. He could probably beat her in a fist fight, but she could tank his credit score in two strokes of a keyboard. Hell, she could make him disappear like a black ops agent if she wanted, making it so Aiden never existed at all. Yeah, no, thank you.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“But listen very carefully. It’s taken me twenty fucking years to get to this point with your father. If you make him feel weird about our relationship, I will put every single fucking one of you through a goddamn woodchipper. Got it?”
― Onley James, Maniac

“You need to get your shit together.” Thomas blinked at him. “What?” Lucas’s lip curled, and he shook his head. “You’re Thomas fucking Mulvaney, the head of this fucked-up little family. Start fucking acting like it before something happens to my children and I have to fucking kill you myself.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“They’re going to be so…” Disgusted. Disappointed. Angry. “Sad,” Aiden supplied. “What happened to you is sad. That’s it. The feelings faction is going to cry”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Thomas grimaced at the sound of something heavy and wet hitting the floor. “Fuck,” Avi whined. “I fucked up already.” “Oh, no,” Atticus said, affect flat. “Whatever shall we do.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Asa kissed Zane’s cheek. “Easy, Lois, nobody wants to take this guy’s skin home. Look at it. It’s not even a good color. Besides, like Felix said, what would we even do with it? We’re not into arts and crafts like Ed Gein. We just like to try new things.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Thomas tried to ignore Avi when he said, “Who gets to start?” “I’m older,” Asa reminded. “By, like, minutes at best,” Avi shot back. “Besides, it was my idea.” Thomas had half a mind to snap at them, tell them to get it together, but before he could say anything, Felix stepped between them, his voice soothing. “Why don’t you just do it at the same time. There are two sides of him.” “You’re right, kitten,” Avi said. “He’s always the voice of reason.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Adam was like a German Shepherd that had traded in dog fighting for duckie pajamas and flower crowns.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“I’m starting to think the Watch isn’t a real place, like Hogwarts, or Dr. X’s academy for mutants,” Adam said. “Tell the truth, you’re just living in the desert getting high all the time and spinning these elaborate fairy tales about psychopathic Gen Zs.” “Don’t be jealous,” Archer said, blowing him a kiss. “You can come visit whenever you want.” “He’s just sad he didn’t get his owl,” Noah said, patting Adam on the head like a puppy.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“I need to figure out who handed two toddlers a venomous snake. Go. I’m good. I never sleep more than four hours a night as it is.” “What? How are you alive?” “Sheer force of will,” Calliope promised. Aiden snorted. “Don’t you need your beauty sleep?” Calliope put a hand under her chin and fluttered her lashes. “Oh, darling. Petty keeps me pretty.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Avi’s eyes lit up. “Are we finally going to skin someone? I really want to skin someone.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“Mouths shut, ears open, eyes on me,” she said, like she was talking to a bunch of toddlers. Miraculously, it worked.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“You will not be distracting him with your pelvic sorcery.” Aiden blinked at her. “My what?” “He definitely doesn’t have TikTok,”
― Onley James, Maniac

“She’s mean,” Arsen whispered. “I like it.”
― Onley James, Maniac

“If you throw up on my fifteen-hundred dollar sneakers, I’m not speaking to you for a week,” Felix promised in his sweetest tone.”
― Onley James, Maniac