Marie Mackay > Quotes

“What can’t I handle?” I released her wrist and it fell away. I leaned down to murmur in her ear. “What I’d do for every instance I’m forced to watch my mate touch another alpha.”
― Marie Mackay, Forget Me Knot

“Why?” He asked, exasperated. “Why do you deserve my secrets, Briar?”
She paused, his words somehow hitting true. She sighed. “I suppose I don’t.”
― Marie Mackay

“At the end of the day, I was a monster just like they were. They prayed on the weak, and in doing so, they’d created me: a creature who couldn’t survive without their blood, and there was enough of that to feed me for a lifetime.”
― Marie Mackay, Psycho Alphas: Part One

“Yet hot tears burned my eyes in an embrace that felt like nothing I’d ever felt, painting a thousand miles of unknown, leaving aches of could-haves, or should-haves that scared me to the bone.”
― Marie Mackay, Psycho Alphas: Part One

“I didn’t get happily-ever-afters in life, no promises, no guarantees, no nothing like that. So I’d learned how to make infinity out of the blink of an eye. A little happily ever after contained to a single moment, a memory, it was something the world couldn’t ever take from me. And I think this was the happiest one I’d ever had to keep.”
― Marie Mackay, Psycho Alphas: Part One

“They’d brought this war to me, and I would make sure their regret would eat them alive.”
― Marie Mackay, Psycho Alphas: Part Two

“It was a nest like no other, and there was a beam on her face as she examined it. She turned and burrowed in, a small pile collapsing on top of her. I heard a squeal of delight, and then out floated a demand so bratty it made me proud. “I need dick.”
― Marie Mackay, Havoc Killed Her Alpha

“He wasn’t the Noble she wanted dead—though watching him crash to his knees on the floor beside her bed, she knew that wasn’t strictly true.”
― Marie Mackay, Amber and Shadow

“Sylas’s temper finally cracked. He closed the distance between them, hands gripping her shoulders. “You don’t get that part of me,” he hissed. “You’ve taken enough without stealing that, too.”
― Marie Mackay, Amber and Shadow

“You can’t make me think I ate people and then finger bang me!”
― Marie Mackay, Sweetheart: Part Two

“Hide behind lies I know are lies, and you won’t have any tells left that I haven’t found.”
― Marie Mackay, Queen of Diamonds

“I’ve had so much worse stolen from me, Shatter,' I murmured, drawing a towel over her long hair again. 'All of it, I dragged from the edge of hell itself. Carrying you back—I could do that with my eyes closed.”
― Marie Mackay, Shattered Omega: Part Two

“She was my oasis. Rain clouds in unending drought. Not loving her just wasn’t in my DNA. It was figuring out how to live without her… That had been the hard part.”
― Marie Mackay, Queen of Diamonds

“Bile burned my throat at the shadow of a monster that stirred in the cracks and crevices of my heart.”
― Marie Mackay, Psycho Alphas: Part One

“why did it feel like someone had detonated an army of butterflies and glitter in my brain when he did.”
― Marie Mackay, Shattered Omega: Part One

“I’m broken. That’s all.” “Who told you that?” “The whole world,” I whispered. “I don’t fit.” He breathed a low laugh. “Then I’ll break the world until it fits you.”
― Marie Mackay, Shattered Omega: Part Two

“And I’d grown years worth of armour to protect me from cruelty, from hatred. So this? It was like kryptonite, seeping through a million cracks, closing up my throat.”
― Marie Mackay, Psycho Alphas: Part Two

“I’d only ever been in love with one person in my entire life. When I’d loved, I’d opened up every door in my whole world, so when she’d set fire to it, there had been nowhere it hadn’t spread. I hated her. I hated her, and I loved her all at once and it was twisting me up. Never in my life, had I ever experienced being so angry and so… fucking hurt at the same time. Not until today, when I’d seen her again, in those first few moments.”
― Marie Mackay, Queen of Diamonds