Pretty Vile Quotes

“You expect me to teach all day with a pair of eyeballs in my desk?”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“It’s ironic that I had to lose myself to find myself again, but I’m beginning to think it was a necessary evil.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Emilia is a five-course meal filled with delicacies you’d sell your left nut to taste again.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“If this is a dream, I never want to wake up.” “Not a dream,” she assures, trailing her fingers through my messy mop of hair. “You’re stuck with me for life, and if you ever pull shit like what you did yesterday again, I will actually cut your dick off.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I can’t promise to always do the right thing, and I’m definitely going to fuck up, but I can promise that I’ll love you with every broken shard of my wretched heart. I’ll put you first, above all else, protect you no matter what, and be the man you deserve.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I wouldn’t want anyone else by my side, Angel. You’ve been it for me since that night I slept in your room, and you thought a pillow wall would stop me from touching you. Even when I hated you, I still needed you. Not to keep the voices at bay, but just because I don’t fucking function without you. You’re so deeply embedded under my skin that I’m not complete unless I’m looking into your eyes or I can feel the heat of your skin against mine. I don’t care if you’re sitting in a chair on the other side of the room or asleep in my arms; whether you’re pissed at me or want to cut my dick off, I just want to be fucking around you.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“You know what I think?" she murmurs seductively. "I think we had to get lost in the dark in order to find our way home to one another. I could never be your everything, and you could never be mine.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Well, maybe if you hadn’t abandoned me at the hospital… Do you have any idea how fucking cold it is out there? My balls are never going to climb down from inside of me, and it’s all your fault!” Kai rolls his eyes.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“But I owe you a thank you,” I say, looking back at Mel. I squeeze Hawk’s hand. “If it hadn’t been for you, I wouldn’t have found my way back here.” My attention turns to Hawk. And despite the blood on his face, the dead girl at our feet, and the harrowing day we’ve had, I can’t help but smile at him. “I wouldn’t have realized what I was missing out on all these years.” I hold his gaze for a heart-thumping moment before giving Kai the same smile. “Or found my missing pillar of strength.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“But I owe you a thank you,” I say, looking back at Mel. I squeeze Hawk’s hand. “If it hadn’t been for you, I wouldn’t have found my way back here.” My attention turns to Hawk. And despite the blood on his face, the dead girl at our feet, and the harrowing day we’ve had, I can’t help but smile at him. “I wouldn’t have realized what I was missing out on all these years.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“But I owe you a thank you,” I say, looking back at Mel. I squeeze Hawk’s hand. “If it hadn’t been for you, I wouldn’t have found my way back here.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Kiss me, you foolish woman, before Kai unties my hands and I strangle you for not running when you had the chance.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“That you were going to be a wrecking ball that would obliterate my world. You shook it up in the best way possible." My hands slide around the sides of her throat, my thumbs brushing the angle of her jaw. "You reminded me how full of joy life can be if you just open yourself up to it.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Kill me all you want. It still won’t make her yours. What we have supersedes anything you can fathom in this world. In this life or the next, dead or alive, I’ll always find her.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I gasp as I stare at the bold, confident woman staring back at me. Gone is the scared, anxious woman who showed up unwanted all those weeks ago, and in her place is someone who finally knows what she wants and is ready to seize it.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I smile, wishing I didn’t have to leave, and already excited to get back home to her. Something I can imagine still feeling twenty years from now because Emilia is my center. My guiding light. The north on my compass. Wherever she is, is home, and no matter the distance, I’ll always follow her beacon back to her.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“We're like two opposing magnets drawn to each other and only complete when we're together.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“You blew up my world when you strolled into my apartment that day. It felt like everything was falling apart at the time. Only now do I understand that it was actually falling into place.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“He devours my pussy the same way he did my mouth—by carving his name into every inch of it and ripping an orgasm from my lips.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Wilder is the antithesis of everything I thought I wanted in a man, although he’s everything I’ll ever need.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I have no doubt that his threat is real, but I’m not afraid. I don’t need to be, because I’m done running from him. It’s a mistake I won’t make twice, no matter how hard he may try to push me away.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I didn’t chase after you before, but if you leave me again, I’ll hunt you to the ends of the earth.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“While Wilder had to watch me fall apart in order to find himself, I had to give myself over to him—completely and wholeheartedly.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Fucking hell, Little Sparrow,” I growl into her mouth. “I’ve never been one to lose myself to drugs or alcohol, but I am fucking addicted to you.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Did you just compare my dick to a bowl of popcorn?” “Really delicious, buttery popcorn that you practically inhale before the opening credits have finished rolling, and that leaves you wanting to lick the bowl when you’re done.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Feel better?” I ask smugly. “No,” she growls, her voice muffled. Lifting her head, my eyes linger on the redness of her cheeks. “That was like offering me a kernel of popcorn when the whole bowl is sitting right there.” She waves toward my crotch, her lower lip pushing out in a pout.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“Soon. Soon, that will be exactly how we start every day. I’ll eat her for breakfast before heading to class or work, and she’ll go off to teach with the feel of my tongue in her pussy and a just-fucked glow that will remind all of those fuckboys on campus that she’s off-limits.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“And if Wilder isn’t going to come to his senses, then Kai better. I don’t care which one of them is the other slice in my Emilia sandwich, so long as there is an Emilia sandwich. It’s been too fucking long since the last one, and I have a craving that won’t go away until it’s sated.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I can envision a life here—one where I spend my days lecturing and watching my students grow and learn, and my nights curled up with Hawk in front of the TV, laughing over a glass of wine with Kai while we prepare dinner, and being tortured to death by Wilder between the sheets at night.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile

“I’ve come to accept that I’m a morally gray person. Learned to embrace it even. Knowing you’re not confined to the same social boundaries as others is freeing. You’re unburdened, knowing you don’t have to make the socially acceptable choice in any given situation. You’ll just do whatever the fuck you want and screw everyone else.”
― R.A. Smyth, Pretty Vile