Avery Collins > Quotes

“I don’t know how to be loved safely when danger’s in the room.”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“Look at you,” I murmur. “Mr. Lane. TA. Top of his class. On his knees on a random Tuesday because the campus psycho counted down from ten.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“I press my forehead to his, our breaths tangling. “I hate you,” I whisper, my voice breaking. “I hate you because I can’t stop wanting you.” He closes his eyes, jaw tightening, like he’s trying not to fall apart. “Then we’re both fucked,” he says.”
― Avery Collins, Conquest

“I can say whatever the fuck I want,” he says, smirking. “You can argue, and I’ll enjoy it. Then you’ll go home and lie awake, thinking about my hand on your throat and my voice in your ear, and the next time you kneel to pray, you’ll hear me instead of God.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“There it is—the surrender. The piece of him that’s been dying for someone to hold him tight enough, so he can stop pretending he’s fine.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“I remember enough to know I’ve been missing half my soul and calling it survival.”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“You’re the weight on the fucking scale now, Brendon.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“But do not spend the next thirty years haunting a small house because you were too proud or too frightened to know the difference.”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“I don’t just love one man. I love a ghost. I love a version of him that no longer exists anywhere except inside of me.”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“I’ve been waiting eight years. I will wait however long I need to until I see you again.”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“Don’t hide,” I say quietly. “You already gave yourself away.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“You’re not a thing to me, Little Sin, you’re a choice,” I say. “You’re also my pretty little toy, and I don’t share my choices, or my fucking toys.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“She’s breathing,” he says. “You can check if you want, but I promise she is. I didn’t hit her that hard, I just turned the volume down before she put her hands on you again.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“Figured if he’s going to use that book as a weapon, I can use it as a mirror.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“Keep pushing me”
― Avery Collins, Pretty When He Bleeds

“I’m just honest about what I’m asking you to do. I’m not hiding it behind God, grades, or parental approval. I’m telling you straight up: get on your knees for me, because I want to see you there.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“I know with sinking, absolute certainty that whatever line I thought I could hold between us just snapped, and I have no idea how to tie it back together.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“Tonight I sit on the floor with a bottle of bourbon and the weight of eight years pressing my lungs flat”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“Seth studies me with a raised eyebrow. I step closer to him and angle my body, blocking his line of sight to Brendon out of instinct. What’s mine stays mine, even if I haven’t claimed it out loud yet.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“You were sleepwalking through your own life,” he cuts in. “Church, class, study, smile, nod, never say no. You’ve been saying yes to everyone and everything except yourself for so long that you forgot what wanting feels like. Then I walk in, and suddenly you remember you have a pulse. You hate that it took someone like me to wake you up, but it did, and now you’re here.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“His eyes are wild and bright, pale blue, iced-over fire… and he grins. Blood on his teeth, sweat on his jaw. Pierced. Scarred. Filthy. Perfect.”
― Avery Collins, Conquest

“You keep pretending you don’t want what you want. You keep telling yourself you’re just scared. That’s half the reason you’re fucked up about this—fear you can manage, but desire’s the part you don’t know what to do with.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“Get up,” he says”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“I do, but you smell like smoke and salt, and your cologne always makes me so hard. It’s… It’s calming,” he moans. “Teach me how to suck your cock properly, Daddy.”
― Avery Collins, Dirty Hit

“I’m yours,” he says. “Legally”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“Why does it hurt you?” he asks. I meet his eyes again. “Because I remember every second you can’t”
― Avery Collins, Reign

“I’m in love with a dead language no one else speaks.”
― Avery Collins, Reign