Shae Ruby > Quotes

“I can’t breathe without you, Camilla.” My heart flips in my chest at his admission. “You’re the air in my lungs… the blood in my veins. Don’t take this away from me, please. Don’t take you away from me.”
― Shae Ruby, Bloody Tainted Lies

“I swear, I’m my own worst fucking enemy. My mind controls me when no one else can.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“I learned how to breathe underwater in the ocean that he kept trying to drown me in, until he was the only oxygen I needed.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“He’s my favorite sin, and I’m not quite ready to repent.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“We're doomed, you and I,” Kaelin says against my lips. “This is a fucking tragedy.” “Yeah,” I whisper. “But it’s our tragedy.”
― Shae Ruby, Summoned

“Oh, fuck, I think I love you.” My stomach flips at those words, my heart clenching in my chest. “That’s because you do, little human.” I growl. “There’s not one part of you that I don’t own.”
― Shae Ruby, Summoned

“I know this man is going to be my ruin. My undoing. He always has been.”
― Shae Ruby, Bloody Tainted Lies

“I warned him we were no good for each other. If only I had known he would be the one to hurt me instead.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“You’re my whole heart, Hals,” I tell her. “If you don’t beat for me, I can’t go on.” “I want to be the one to pump blood into your veins, Zay,” she replies, tears gathering in her eyes as she moves against me, soaking my sweatpants. “I’d live inside your rib cage if you let me.”
― Shae Ruby, Tattered Bodies

“Home is not a place but a person. And it’s always been him. And it always will be.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“Nursing is my way to nurture others the way I wasn’t. I’ve always enjoyed caring for people, and it’s even more special to think of it as healing from my past.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“But if there’s one place I refuse to end up, it’s back in a mental hospital with my shoelaces confiscated and foam trays for my food. My stomach fills with dread just thinking of it, and I shudder. Fake it ‘till you make it, right? So I fake it, I pretend. I pretend I don’t have a heart. I pretend I can’t feel. I pretend I’m not triggered.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“I can’t point out the exact thing that draws me in so much, but I get a level of excitement when we’re getting a new patient on the brink of death.”
― Shae Ruby, Battered Souls

“Is there no way out of the mind? -Sylvia Plath-”
― Shae Ruby, Tattered Bodies

“My soul recognizes hers–like calls to like, and we are two sides of the same rusted coin. Our jagged pieces fit together, even if they don’t quite line up and there are cracks in the middle.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“Wait for me"
"Cross my heart”
― Shae Ruby, Cross My Heart

“So hurt me. Hurt me so fucking bad. I’ve never had anything good anyway.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts

“would be nice for someone to have my back once in a while, to just know what I’m going through and love me regardless.”
― Shae Ruby, Shattered Hearts