Poppy Havoc > Quotes

“I love you and I'm gonna get you." She found her resolve strengthening as she spoke. How hard can it be to seduce your Professor?
Haby shook his head with a snort. "You're young, and possibly hormonal." He chuckled, again in an insulting way. "A decade and a half younger. Go kid. Get to Curie before dark."
Kid?
Barti giggled. "I'm kid? But Amara and Cyra aren't?”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“How dare you talk shit about me in my place?"
"This place belongs to the institution, not you." He barked.
"And I pay the institution to call it mine. Look, what business do you have with me?”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“Fear, heavy like lead, settled down her belly. That wasn't some engaging thriller movie you would binge on Webflix. It was real life and Opia was no hero. Sweat formed on her forehead and her fingertips grew numb from the cold wind. The silhouette became creepier the closer she moved. Her intellect screamed to turn away before she saw anything she shouldn't. But curious as she was, Opia pushed forward, thinning down the layer of fog enough to make out the details.”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“Barti's father died when she was a toddler. It was a tragic age to lose a parent. A loving one at that. Barti had cried for days and so did her relatives. Then one day, everyone went back to normal, resuming their life like the man never existed. Barti felt betrayed. Her father was so caring and generous, a wonderful human being. He deserved to be mourned.”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“He was probably right. Barti loved him just because. Not expecting him to love her in return. She knew that he was flirting around with too many people even before she proposed to him. She knew what she was getting herself into. She had no right to complain now.
And so they were stuck in a love triangle.
Barti's vision blurred with tears reminiscing about all the intimate moments she spent with Haby, foolishly thinking he was hers.
It felt wrong. Awfully wrong.”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“God, why do Professors have the deepest, sexiest voice in the world?”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“Here she goes again,' Barti pondered at the way Cyra swooned over Professor Halberd Colton, 'caressing her fingertips against his, faking an accidental encounter'. Barti knew what Cyra was trying to do to him—ignite the spark.
'Ha, there’s nothing to ignite, you motherless goat! He’s mine! Or soon he will be.”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“people disappeared when they failed to fit Quantum's elitist culture. But Barti was determined to stand her ground, mark her footsteps. She was determined not to disappear.”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“They are dead. The dead don't speak!”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings

“She was weak and pathetic!
She had no delusions about it.”
― Poppy Havoc, The Drop Dead Darlings