Ruby Vincent > Quotes

“You’re not in one relationship with four guys, Zela. You’re in four relationships. Ours has to move at the right pace.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Elites

“Stop leaving me alone with these people.” I laughed out loud. “Did Aunt Violet wrangle you into that suit?” “She practically barricaded the closet, so I couldn’t pick out anything else.” “You look very dapper if that helps.” “It doesn’t,”
― Ruby Vincent, The End

“We collapsed in a heap on the bed. “Stay like this.” I drew our hands together beneath my head. “Please.” “Thought I was a two-ton boulder?” “You are,” I murmured, “and it makes me feel safe to know between me and the world... is you.”
― Ruby Vincent, Mercy

“It was wrong. It was so wrong how beautiful he was. Neither the cruel curve of his lips or the stubby black hairs where thick raven locks used to be could change that. He was beautiful. Exquisitely perfect like that of a Greek statue—gorgeous, cold, unfeeling... lifeless.”
― Ruby Vincent, Marked

“We don't do the truth, gentlemen. We're a bunch of fucked-up psychopaths that wandered into the same bar and ended up going home together. The morning after lasted a bit long, but we all knew what this was.”
― Ruby Vincent

“When I looked at you over that cup of soda, blushing even while you were annoyed with me, I saw that future. I saw our future. You were going to be the person who undid the perfect mask I was trying to create. I know that I don’t deserve you. You’ve given me everything I hoped while I’ve let you down, but we’re here now. We’ve made it to us, so it’s right that we go back to where it started.”
― Ruby Vincent, Unmasked

“Don’t try to get me to say nice things about you right now. You’re annoying. You’ve always been annoying. But you’re stuck with me, and lucky you. You won’t find anyone else like me willing to put up with your crap.” Suddenly, his body was pressed against my back. His heat seeped into me as his chuckles reverberated through me. “You’re right.” Ryder rested his chin on my head. “I won’t find anyone else like you...”
― Ruby Vincent, Unmasked

“I don’t owe you three apologies; I owe you thousands. You’re smart and beautiful and strong, and I tried to break you on the card of a monster.” “Jaxson.” “I know I don’t deserve you, but I want you anyway.”
― Ruby Vincent, Bound

“Join me in celebrating the class of 2020.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Elites

“Part of the word literally translates to fire in Japanese, and that’s what you are. Wild. Beautiful. Dangerous. Warm.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“Barking up the wrong tree.” Jaxson stroked my cheek. “I’d never lie to you, baby. Ever. Serena’s been stepping over the line, but I’ll push her ass back. You have nothing to worry about.” I took a deep breath and let it go. “I know. I trust you completely.” I grasped his cheek in turn, smiling wide. “But if her ass doesn’t get back over the line today, I’ll push her myself.” “Understood.”
― Ruby Vincent, Wicked

“And I love you,” said Cassius. “Since the first time we had sex and you said three more times.” He accepted my swat with a grin. “And the night I looked into your eyes and saw that you and I were the same. Meant to find each other. Meant to heal the other.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“How about we toast to finding our missing pieces and becoming whole?” I asked. We raised our glasses high. “Becoming whole.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Elites

“Those boys are demons. Beautiful, sexy, evil, rip-your-heart-out-and-drink-the-blood demons.”
― Ruby Vincent, Broken

“Haven’t you heard? I run things in this school.” “The only thing you run is that trash mouth.”
― Ruby Vincent, Marked

“Unlike the other boys, Ezra was in full uniform and not so much as a thread was out of place. His leather shoes gleamed in the artificial lights, and even from this far, I could see he had a manicure. Strait-laced as he appeared, it didn’t dampen those dark, tempting eyes or the confidence in his gait as he moved. Like the rest of the boys, he had a buzz cut.”
― Ruby Vincent, Marked

“His silver eyes swept over my face, lighting with recognition. It made sense that those orbs were silver because they were as cold as metal and as unfeeling as him. I prayed that I would never have to see those eyes again outside of the nightmares they haunted. I hoped that I would never again meet— “Ryder Shea.”
― Ruby Vincent, Marked

“He wasn’t himself.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Elites

“Tribalism may be ingrained in us, but it can’t be denied that this habit is responsible for nearly every issue affecting our society today and societies past. Racism. Classism. Sexism. War. Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Even something as small as which football team won or lost has resulted in fans rioting. “This ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality has permeated every area of our lives and the damage has been recorded in our history books. It’s something we witness every day. I recognize at its core, it’s what brings us together as families, friends, and communities. Contributing and protecting each other, especially in the ages when we hunted with spears. Tribalism kept us alive to become what we are today. But when we measure the cost—weigh the genocide, chattel slavery, disenfranchisement, hate groups, terrorism, and poverty. To conclude that this has hurt society almost goes without explanation.”
― Ruby Vincent, Mercy

“I promised total honesty so here it is. I want to be with you. I’ve always wanted to be with you, and I fucking hated every minute of you being marked.”
― Ruby Vincent, Bound

“Love is action, Adeline. It’s sacrificing all that matters because that person matters more.”
― Ruby Vincent, Cash

“Don’t give me that shit,” Sinjin said. “I could drop you in the middle of the desert with a pack of gum and a capful of water. You’d come back riding a hyena with a necklace made of fox skulls. I know you can handle Pais. He knows it too.” Saint’s eyes were hard. “This is a trap. Once you’re in, you’re not getting out.”
― Ruby Vincent, Mercer

“My name is Hiro Saito and the only thing good about this place is it’s where she lives.”
― Ruby Vincent, The End

“You’re sixteen and seventeen years old.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Execution

“The thing about pain is when it torments you long enough, you begin to cling to it. Suffering is preferable to the terrifying fear that without the pain you might be numb.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners

“I will end this,” I said. I rose up and put my mouth to his ear. “I’m coming back and I’m going to make every single one of you pay. No mercy, just like you showed me.” Jaxson stiffened in my hold. “You’re going to regret the day you sat down next to me in homeroom, baby.”
― Ruby Vincent, Broken

“I don't believe in fate. Fate is accepting outside forces determine your life. I don't know if I was meant for you, Adeline, but I took you anyway. In every version of our lives, Sinjin gets his Bunny.”
― Ruby Vincent

“Ezra, you have to stop using our son as a therapist,” she said, giggling. I stilled. “Did you just say...?” “Our son.” She flashed me a teasing smile. “Yes, I did. Got a problem with it?” “No, I don’t.” I captured her lips in a sweet, slow kiss. Our tongues entangled, drawing soft moans from us both. “I love you,” I whispered. “I love our son. And our family. I would do anything for you guys.” She caressed my cheek. “And we would do anything for you.”
― Ruby Vincent, Ruthless

“What do you mean?” I pressed.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Judgement

“You don’t just wake up one day and decide to throw everything you learned about good and wrong out the window. It’s a bunch of little things you know you shouldn’t do, that you rationalize away. ‘If this was really wrong, Dad wouldn’t ask me to do it.’ Or ‘they can afford to buy another one.’ “Those little things add up and then you don’t know which way is right anymore. You’re numb. Looking at the world behind glass, and nothing is real because nothing can touch you.”
― Ruby Vincent, The Sinners