Paint It All Red Quotes
"We are rarely proud when we are alone." —Voltaire
"Cheese and rice, you lunatic. Don’t scare someone like that when there’s a serial killer literally in our backyard."
"You knew!" I shout with accusation, as my fist slams into the wall, and my entire body heaves for a breath of air that doesn’t feel lined with lead.
"Yeah. I can’t be friends with someone who could watch me fall in love with someone like that and not tell me the truth."
"All along, I was in love with the girl who wants this town dead."
"The handcuffs are tossed on the floor, along with the sheet. And everything Lana brought is gone."
"I love him enough to burn the world to the ground in his name."
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." —Confucius
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." —Albert Einstein
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know." —William Shakespeare
"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events." —Albert Einstein
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."
"A wise man knows when the war is lost, and will understand retreat is the only way to save lives. A foolish man will condemn all his followers to death because of his pride."
"If hatred didn’t exist, love wouldn’t either, for one is formed by the other. I love and hate this town."
"I believe the souls of the wrongfully persecuted often haunt our world, bringing the same grief they feel from beyond the grave."
"Never mock or harm the passionate, for they are the fiercest with their wrath."
"‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall." —William Shakespeare
"Don’t impose on others what you yourself do not desire." —Confucius
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has rarely been successful, and then only for a short while." —Albert Einstein
"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms." —Voltaire
"Remember that time when we were kids and we found that stick of dynamite in your father’s basement?"
"You told us it was too dangerous to mess with, but I convinced you it’d be fun."
"You wanted to study it, but I just wanted to blow shit up."
"So we blew up that old barn outside of town."
"You explained it to me later. Explained what happened."
"You were always right. I was always reckless. I should have listened to you."
"Don’t cry for me, Jake. I’ve survived because of you."
"You showed me what living was like again. I’d forgotten."
"You’re the only reason I’m still breathing right now, Lana. Don’t give up."
"You’re a survivor too. And you make the world a better place. Don’t ever stop."
"Too late did I realize I still wanted to live."
"Too late did I realize I’m not ready to die."
"It’ll be a tragic, poetic ending that will immortalize all I’ve done."
"Marcus," I whisper, touching his cheek as more tears race down my face.
"For the past three months, I’ve been on leave."
"It didn’t make sense that Lana would kill so many in such grizzly ways without ever going after the original killer."
"I just wish I had realized how little the rest of the world meant to me post-Lana before I lost her."
"Life is pretty damn good when you take the time to live it."
"How crazy life can be, and how good it can turn out."
"She still continues to surprise me, and I’m fairly positive I’d be the one burning the world down if anyone ever tried to take her from me."
"And that something can’t just be locked away."
"Strength is earned, never given, and always tested."
"It’s almost as though there are no scents here at all, but then you hit one patch and your sense of smell is overwhelmed."
"I wasn’t suicidal. I wasn’t going to jump. I just needed to breathe."
"It was like I was in twelve places at once, the walls were closing in on me, and then I sought out air. I just needed to breathe."