Harley Laroux > Quotes

“I’ll rip Heaven and Hell and this goddamn Earth apart before I let them steal you from me.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“In French, there’s a phrase for the random urge to jump from high places, the irrational desire to swerve into traffic despite imminent destruction: l'appel du vide, the call of the void.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“Do you remember what I used to tell you?” Manson said. “When we were teenagers and we’d drive out here to talk about shit…you’d tell me you didn’t want to see another day…” I remembered that, of course I did. I remembered the despair I felt, the pain we shared, how hopeless I’d been. “If you can get through the night, you’ll see the sun again,” I said, repeating the words he’d told me back then. “Keep chasing the next sunrise.” I closed my eyes as I exhaled. “The night feels really fucking dark, Manson, but I’m still chasing sunrises.”
― Harley Laroux, Losers: Part I

“Love. What an awful, beautiful, terrifying word.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“I’d gladly admit I was generally a dick, but Rae made me want to be...nice...to her. Only to her. Everyone else could get fucked.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“I'd steal her from the hands of God itself if I had to.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“Humans and Gods were a bad combination. Give a human knowledge, and he thinks he’s wise. Give a human magic, and he thinks he’s strong. Give a human religion, and he’ll think he’s right.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“you live in the dark long enough, you’ll forget what the light feels like.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“Fix you? Ah, little wolf, I have no desire to fix you. I just want to see all your broken edges shine. I want to feel how sharp you are.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“You’re Hell’s little whore, aren’t you?”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“Carefully, with the sharpness of the knife tucked within the curved grip of his hand, he began to probe my entrance with the handle. It was hard, but warm from his hand. The edges were rounded, smooth as it rubbed over my wet, swollen flesh. "You're going to get off on this knife, Jess," he said. "And I'm going to hold you open, nice and still, so you don't get hurt.”
― Harley Laroux, The Dare

“You’re a light in the dark, and I’ve been in the dark a very long time.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“I wanted to ride this man like a goddamn rollercoaster and then take his friends for a spin too.”
― Harley Laroux, Losers: Part I

“Murder bitches, get fucked...or something like that.” She gave me a long, exasperated stare. “It’s fuck bitches, get money, Zane.” “Right, yeah, that’s what I said.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“A home isn't just a place - sometimes a home is a person; sometimes a home is flesh and blood.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“Do something?” He shot me a narrow-eyed glare, and said mockingly, “Oh Leon, do something! Save me, please, oh please! What happened to Be gone, demon? What happened to trying to bash my head in with a crucifix?”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“In French, there’s a phrase for the random urge to jump from high places, the irrational desire to swerve into traffic despite imminent destruction: l'appel du vide, the call of the void. Those sudden feral impulses tend to be shoved away immediately, but humans still experience them. What if you jumped? What if you touched the fire? What if? What if? When I looked at him, staring at me, the void called.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“Absolutely. I love all those bastards, obviously, but love is a little different with every person you share it with. Sometimes it’s passionate and romantic, or deep and platonic, or any combination in between. A lot of people don’t understand it, but I don’t need anyone’s understanding. I accepted that a long time ago”
― Harley Laroux, Losers: Part I

“I want you. Irrevocably.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“I’ve never given anyone permission to summon me. But if you can, bring me back to you.”
― Harley LaRoux, Her Soul to Take

“This doesn’t depend on you saying anything. I love you. I’ve loved you. For so long. And I’ll love you, even if you don’t love me back. I’ll love you even if this is the last day I ever see you.”
― Harley Laroux, Losers: Part II

“Manson would wait for you in the dark and you’d never see him coming; while Lucas would come in broad daylight, smash your windows out, and set your house on fire.”
― Harley Laroux, Losers: Part I

“It was like shattered glass every time I looked at you.” His hand moved up, tucked against my neck and his thumb pushed up my chin. “Have you ever seen shattered glass catch the light? Have you seen it reflect colors that a perfect, pristine pane never would? How it shines as bright as the sun?”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“Survival is messy. Survival has no morals or kindness. Survival isn’t black and white, good versus evil. Survival is shades of red; it’s blood taken and blood lost.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“Say mercy if you want our play to end. But beg for me to stop and plead for your life if you want to continue”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“The darkness that surrounded us could have stretched on forever, a void in which everything I'd thought I knew had been turned on its head. We were in some other world, a world where pleasure and pain, fear and excitement, were all the same.”
― Harley Laroux, The Dare

“Why would she risk her life to come back for me, or offer her soul when I’d already given all I could to protect her, when I had nothing more to give in return? Love. Because she...loved me.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul to Take

“No human is ready for forever, and forever is all I have. But you gave me a part of your life, when mortal lives are so short.”
― Harley LaRoux, Her Soul to Take

“Don’t you dare call for God,” I snarled. “It’s my name you’re going to be crying.”
― Harley Laroux, Her Soul for Revenge

“Because you were my glimpse of heaven from hell,” he said. “You were the sun in my sky, and now you’re like a comet sent to earth. A wildfire I can touch…kiss…hold…”
― Harley Laroux, Losers: Part II