Hideaway Quotes
"Rain was like night. You could be different in the dark and under the clouds."
"Things were more special when they were rare."
"I missed all those nights, years ago, when I had a release. When I had friends to get lost with."
"Secrets and mysteries make life fun, don’t they?"
"I just need to say things out loud, I guess."
"There are just some things that are more exciting when they’re a secret."
"We’re only ever good because there are consequences."
"We have enemies. And the list grows every day."
"Because he doesn’t want people to know where he is."
"I never make mistakes," I replied. "I'm either right or I'm learning. Jaku niku kyo shoku."
"Women," he said, "are either toys or tools. They're good for play or good for pay."
"I could always see that. Grayson and Crist, they would protect you even if they found a dead hooker in your bed and blood on your hands. No questions. No hesitation."
"You're the prey right now," she shot back. "And once…you were the hunter."
"Your love for your friends could never overshadow your sense of right and wrong, right?"
"It takes a lot to please me," I taunted. "Remember?"
"You want to know where Damon is. You don't want to be surprised. And right now, you're a rat in a maze."
"Because after you refuse," she started, "I’m going to leave."
"You’ll think about how so very little is in your control anymore."
"It’s building and building and building every day," she said, slicing even deeper as I sat frozen.
"You think you’re a joke to them. How far the golden boy did fall."
"Your third one today. It washes off the self-hate for a little while, doesn’t it?"
"It’s okay to grow up," Marina nearly whispered as if reading my mind. "It’s okay to dress and wear make-up like other women do, if that’s what you want."
"You’re a pretty girl, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to… You’re a woman now, and your body is yours."
"I’d never see him in the city." And I nodded, now more sure than ever. "He’s here."
"I know how to pick myself up and get on with it."
"You fit me like a shirt. It’s a perfect mold."
"I’ve made a lot of bad decisions in my life," I said, standing at her side. "I won’t be making any more."
"Remember the end game. Find him, get him home, and keep Kai and the rest of those pricks away from him."
"I was only as valuable as what I was good for to Gabriel Torrance."
"But now, you have an opportunity to prove yourself invaluable. Irreplaceable. Important."
"Every muscle tensed, and I locked my jaw together, shutting up."
"I could best protect Damon with a seat at the table, and if I left I had nothing, goddammit. He needed me."
"But your eyes will tell you the only truth you need. Just look at her."
"I don’t want to be me tonight, okay? We’re in the confessional, and no one can see us. Let’s just run and not look back tonight."
"It’s kind of nice having one piece of pure, clean pussy all to myself."
"I would love to be someone else, somewhere else, but this was it."
"People who are wound that tight are unpredictable."
"I’m wondering if you do dress like this to, indeed, please someone else."
"No part of a woman’s body should be left un-kissed."
"Control is an illusion. It usually only lasts a few minutes."
"You had to do and say so little to make me want you."
"You’re not prepared to start something with these guys."
"But growing up, she, too, was very different."
"When we’re young, we are who we are out of necessity—we are who we’re taught to be."
"I didn’t want to think. For five fucking minutes, I didn’t want to talk or worry or fight or be scared or angry or hate everything."
"I like your braids." His deep voice suddenly sounded raspy. "Your hair is a beautiful color. Like mahogany. Why do you hide it?"
"I told Rika once that I was never going back there. That I never knew people could be so ugly." He met my eyes. "But I was talking about me."
"A trick of survival in prison is, on your first day, walk in there with your head high, look around into everyone’s eyes, and find someone to hit. Establish your strength and make sure everyone sees it."
"Sometimes when everything and everyone around me is hard to face, I look up."
"We all need it, you know? We need contact. It’s only human."
"I want something that’s not mine," he growled. "But we’re not here, are we?"
"I only want you," I breathed over his mouth. "It’s not like that with him. I only talk to you."
"I like chasing you," he said, a hint of a smile on his lips. "I like our foreplay."
"Because I’m a great judge of character and petty thievery doesn’t strike me as your style."
"You need keys as part of your job. It’s not complicated."
"Yes. I love him so much. More than I’ll ever love anyone."
"I wasn’t supposed to change. I wasn’t supposed to grow up."
"I knew what I’d been missing all this time, but…I didn’t think I’d be unable to resist it."
"You’re the girl I didn’t know, and we could be anyone in that confessional."
"Everything else fell away. Everything. We could hide and fuck with the world in that little room."
"If you love her, she can hurt you. If you hurt her instead, she’ll never escape you."
"She has no control over you." I hugged him close, whispering into his damp neck. "We're free. It's just us."
"Thank you," he said and looked down at me, his usual eerie calm settling in over his body. "Are you okay?"
"People will think what they want to think, not because they believe they are right, but because it's in their nature to maintain that they are."
"Someday, when we were rich and all the problems were gone, we'd have pretty things."
"I would rather eat my hand than let Kai Mori pay for my shit."
"You wear his clothes," Kai said to me. "You barely eat. He controls your freedom, your food, your friendships.... What do you want, kid?"
"By not, you've ended the conversation. You. Not them."
"People like me don't get what they want, though. They earn what they need to survive."
"She will never be equal! She will always mean more than you."
"She is everything. Maybe someday you'll know what the fuck I'm talking about."
"You can do anything you want. And I’d say we’re all due for some fun, don’t you?"
"I wouldn’t ever stop him. What was done was done, and I’d steal and covet all the moments we had left."
"He eats pain. He will find some way to take it and twist it and fit it down his throat, so he can swallow it."
"I plan on making this marriage as torturous as possible for you."
"Until death do us part, which shouldn’t be long from now, so yes, I do."
"I’m going to be the worst fucking wife you ever have."
"Everything would’ve been okay if I could’ve seen her smile on her wedding day."
"Blood is the tie that binds. The knot in your soul that says no matter where you go or what you do, there’s someone in this God-forsaken, shithole-hell-of-a-world you’re forever connected to."
"Family is what life gives you to help you endure. Their place is by your side, no matter how much it hurts, they’re the people who are always by your side. It’s duty."
"Nothing could tear me away from her side, either."
"Family is the people who are always by your side. It’s duty."
"Do you think you’ll be happy? I’m not unhappy. I know that."
"I know it’s pathetic to want a place among other people, and I know you’ll say it’s better to stand alone and be right than stand in a crowd and be wrong, but... I still feel that need all the time."
"It feels like shit to be alone. To be in a place full of people and feel like they don’t want you there."
"I’ll most likely stop writing you in the morning."
"But after the school year ended, we didn’t stop. Even though we live less than thirty miles away from each other and have Facebook now, we continue to communicate this way because it keeps it special."
"A lot has changed in our letters over the years. The things we talk about, the subjects we bicker over, her handwriting… Writing that has gone from the big, unpolished penmanship of a girl who has just learned cursive, to the sure, confident strokes of a woman who knows who she is."
"Spread on your bravery, line the eyes and the lips, glue up the cracks and paint over the rips."
"What if I hear her voice and her letters become less special? I get to imagine her personality through her words. That would change if I heard her tone."
"She’s my muse, and she has to know it by now. I’ve been using her as a bouncing board for years, sending her lyrics to read."
"You know what you look like? Serial killer candy!"
"I’d pictured a geek in glasses with purple streaks in her hair dressed in a Star Wars T-shirt."