Iniquitous Quotes

“I could handle the truth. I would listen to its heartbreaks and I would mourn the world as I knew it because that’s the kind of girl I was, and then I would pick my pretty self off the floor and do what I was supposed to do. Just like I always did.”

“I’m bonded to Dominic.”

“There was something to be said about the quietness of night. About the stillness. Everything was tranquil and unmoving as though the world had come to a temporary stop in its rotation—ceased its constant spiral of madness.”

“And I didn’t want to think about that. I didn’t want to exist inside that hopelessness. I just wanted to sink into this stolen moment with him and keep our doomed reality at bay.”

“I was going to live my life my way, however short-lived it may be, and I wasn’t asking for permission anymore.”

“It was false hope, and I didn’t want any part of it.”

“The cruel world slipped away from me, and with it went all the other bad things in my life;”

“The blur of looming evergreens zipped by me so quickly it was as though they were never really there at all. Sometimes I felt just like those trees, rooted in mud with no escape, while my life sat in a car and passed me by.”

“I was done with trying to fit into everyone’s preconceived box of who I was supposed to be.”

“And when we were alone, I…I asked him to kiss—” “Stop. Stop.” His hands came out in front of him. “I’ve heard enough.”

“I wasn’t the same scared little girl he met that night in the church, and I was going to make sure that he knew it.”

“The end came at me jagged and skewed like puzzle pieces to a game I didn’t know I was playing.”

“In my dreams, I was always free. I was happy, and I was with him. (...) It was always heaven like this with Trace. My own piece of paradise within the burning inferno.”

“There was a distinct method to the madness, every move propagated to force my hand, to lure me out of hiding with the sweet promise of finality.”

“I took solace in knowing that something better waited for me on the other side, something as pure and deep as the ocean itself.”

“But there was no end in sight. No peace to be found. The end was only the beginning.”

“It was no secret that I should have been dead on more than one occasion. There had to be a reason why I wasn’t. And I prayed it was a good reason. I needed it to be a good reason.”

“The suffocating darkness had already descended on me and was infesting every inch of my soul as I feared never seeing him again. Nothing they could do to me would be worse than that, worse than the crippling ache that was already in my heart, killing me from the inside out.”

“Welcome to your final resting place, I thought to myself dryly and then slammed my lids shut to chase away the terrifying thought.”

“I imagined the waiting was just part of their game. A way to break me down before the real torture began.”