Does It Hurt? Quotes
"I’m not safe in this country—they’d turn me in to U.S. authorities if caught—but it’s too risky to fly to a country that’d grant me mercy."
"I have no idea how I'm supposed to escape with her watching, but I don't have a choice. It's either I leave, or they find me."
"You’re more likely to get in a car accident than get bit by a shark."
"People don’t actually care about fixing you. They just want to shape your broken pieces until they fit their standards."
"If you want a predator to submit to you, then you need to be stronger."
"I hate you. You don't get to win. I win. Not you."
"I’d rather not embarrass you in front of company."
"I’m a shit person, no doubt about that. But I’m not a sociopath, either."
"You’re going to ruin me, too. But unfortunately for you, that’s where I feel most at home."
"You're a fish expert, but you don't know how to catch them? Isn't that, like, a part of Fish School 101?"
"Nuns are, like, super trustworthy. Not priests, though. Stay away from them."
"I've always known my way around a kitchen, though I don't eat fish, so we'll see how this turns out."
"I want to hear what it sounds like when you’re breaking and can’t scream."
"I don’t fish, Sawyer. It is killing the ecosystem, which goes against everything I've literally dedicated my entire career to. I'm more interested in saving the ocean."
"You always have a choice. You could’ve chosen to do anything else with your life than steal from people."
"It’s what I know best. Been out here since I was eighteen."
"I won't deny that I'm the villain in your story, but please don't insult me by acting like you didn't hurt me first."
"You’re not carving your name into my skin, you freak."
"It’s much easier to just spread my legs and let him have his way."
"Are you asking because you think I’m, what—conspiring with the ghosts?"
"I’m not lying to you," I whisper, whimpering when he squeezes my throat tighter.
"It doesn’t matter if he’s dead or alive, he’ll always haunt me."
"Maybe I will stay here forever. Live on in the cave with the glowworms."
"You’ve been fighting your entire life and deserve rest."
"I’ve been punishing you for something you didn’t do."
"She’s a wild animal that has entered survival mode."
"I’m only afraid to live and it all be for nothing."
"I prefer his fire over ice, his anger over silence, and his hate over indifference."
"You will heal, Sawyer. And as long as you are with me, you will never have to cause pain again."
"I’m not ready to admit why it's so fucking hard to breathe."
"I want her out of my fucking head, but she’s in too deep."
"She’s most beautiful when she’s at her most primitive."
"You’re nothing like I said you were, and everything I said you weren’t."
"You will need for nothing, amore mio. Ti darò tutto."
"I wouldn’t put it past me, either," he retorts.
"I guess I just want to know if it’s possible to let someone go that doesn’t want to be found."
"I don’t see how a future could possibly work between us."
"She’s vibrating from the energy as I slowly approach."
"I’m still withholding my own forgiveness for what she’s done."
"I shake my head, feeling the regret I swore I’d never feel."
"You should have never been put in that position, and you sure as fuck should never have to get used to someone so fucking vile."
"I asked him to hurt me, but it seems I’ve done a far better job of it."
"My throat closes, and it feels like a punch to the chest."
"I was sexually repressed, but considering I refused to conform, I sure as hell wasn’t going to allow them to take pleasure from me, too."
"She wanted me to become something I wasn’t—to believe in someone I couldn’t understand."
"No," he murmurs. "Not until I moved to Australia. When I learned about great whites, I was instantly enraptured by them—obsessed, even."
"Once he started abusing me, I became withdrawn. I was rebellious, while he was the perfect angel."
"We need to board up the windows and door so he can’t get in."
"You don’t get to be the one that cries," he tells me. "You don’t get to cry when you’re the one who ruined me."
"Lying was never the worst of my sins, just the first of them."
"What I do regret is all the people that I’ve hurt on the way."
"The day I told my parents Kevin James Bennett was raping me, my mother slapped me in the face, and my father demanded I apologize for lying about something so sick."
"I’ve taken enough lives. But tonight will be the last."
"I’m not sure how much time passes before we both go boneless."
"We broke the fucking table. Like… Humpty Dumpty bad. There’s no putting it back together."
"You are a thief, baby. You stole my name, and now you’ve taken my heart, too."
"You’ve been reading all day? Couldn't even clean up the house?"
"I think I'll be happy here with my two girls."
"The fact that he remembered where I parked it is enough to have my ovaries exploding."
"Didn’t I say it would be waiting for you? Don’t ever doubt what I would do for you, Sawyer."
"Is it too late to add you to my list of things that make me happy?"
"Because for some godforsaken reason, Enzo decided I was worth loving."
"There’s no doubt Enzo is worth loving, and though it terrifies me, I’m no longer willing to run away from it."
"I forgive you, bella. And now I’m going to need you to forgive yourself."
"I suppose at first it was because I wanted to be like one. They are some of the fiercest creatures in the ocean."