The Broken Note Quotes

“You have something to protect and I have something to destroy. You escape into music and I’m trapped there. You hid from me and I still found you. Where you end, I begin.” He wraps long fingers around the back of my neck. “We may not be from the same world, Cadence, but we’re made of the same freaking soul.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“The world might not understand us, but they don’t have to. We’ll make our own world. And we’ll rule it together.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“when you take aim without thought, innocent people burn.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“Silence shudders and dies. Music fills my ears. My own creation. My own twisted beast. I form it from nothing but my own pain and torture. Dark, pulsing notes. Lashing chords. A song that’s all about bleeding and destruction. It twines with my heart and gives me energy when I had none before. I play until my fingers start throbbing. Then I stop. Spent.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“You’re my girl. My fiancée. My wife. Did you think I would let you walk out of here before convincing you?”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“I’d rather have you and some other guy’s baby than not have you at all.” “What about your dad?”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“Seeing her in pain makes me want to burn the world down.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“Since when has love ever been simple?” Hunter’s lips curve into a sad, pained smile. “You either choose it or you don’t. There’s no in between.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“Kiss me now and I won’t stop, Cadence. Kiss me now, and you will never escape me. Not in this life or the next.” His voice is low, humming with a dark promise that makes my throat feel tight.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note

“kiss is pure torture, a promise ripped from the pages of a fairytale. Right there in the villain’s chapter where he swears he’ll burn the world down. Wrong prince. Wrong story. It should hurt. It should frighten me, but it feels so right. It feels so freaking good. And if this were a different story, a different night, a different life, I’d step into the eternity trapped in this moment and call it something I’ve never truly believed in. Love.”
― Nelia Alarcon, The Broken Note