Aurora Reed > Quotes

“You can’t learn from your mistakes when there are no consequences for them,”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Knight

“I even like it when you hurt me, because I’d rather be hurt by you than adored by anybody else.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Knight

“We just want what’s best for you, Sophie. You know this, don’t you?” My words are now a thick, glutinous lump in my throat. Words like: if you wanted what’s best for me, you wouldn’t have kept me trapped in this hellhole for all these years. If you wanted what’s best for me, you wouldn’t have forced me to endure bullying, mockery and insults all this time. If you wanted what’s best for me, you’d actually ask me what I want for once.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Knight

“You’re not just stupid, you’re delusional.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Knight

“love you atrociously.” He smiles, the hue of desire in his expression shifting, darkening into a sort of yearning melancholy. “I love you with every atom of my being, and I love every atom of yours. I love you desperately, like a starving man. I love you to distraction. And I think maybe you love me too, Theodora Dorokhova. You just aren’t quite ready to say it yet.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“...beauty for me is a quiet girl with a brilliant mind, a debate team captain with a calm voice and textbooks covered in color coded annotations. Beauty for me is a girl with cold skin and a faraway gaze, a girl who loves children's books but rarely laughs. Beauty for me is sage green silk and soft white wool and forget me not eyes. My definition of beauty starts and ends with Theodora. And as for the value I give her, its immeasurable. She is worth dying for, living for. Killing for probably, or at least poisoning for. She is worth every academic failure, every restless night, all the suffering and yearning and hopelessness. She isn't worth everything. She is everything.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“Zachary rubs his face with a long-suffering sigh. “Why are you like this?”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Knight

“And as for the value I give her, it’s immeasurable. She is worth dying for, living for. Killing for, probably, or at least poisoning for. She is worth every academic failure, every restless night, all the suffering and yearning and hopelessness. She isn’t worth everything. She is everything.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“My beautiful nemesis. My formidable adversary. My dearest rival.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“My victories only ever taste like victories when they’re won against you, Theodora.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“Willow fucking Lynch, I come inside her and I fucking hate her and I would kill for her and god himself could descend from the heavens to take her from me and I would spit in his face because she’s fucking mine and nothing in heaven or hell could take her away from me now.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Devil

“the canker galls the infants of the spring, too oft before their buttons be disclosed’? What does he mean by infants?”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“Because to paint a true portrait, you want your subject sitting with you. You need to observe them closely, the way their features are set, the bonework beneath the flesh. You have to observe the way their clothes fold around the shape of their bodies, the way the light hits and traverses their skin, the places where their blood flows and pools. And more than that, you have to get a sense of them. Their smiles, their expressions. The movement of their eyes and arms and hands, the way their chest rises and falls. The way their gaze softens or hardens, the way they tug on their lips with their teeth, the tiny subconscious tics they have. That might be the way they bite on the skin around their nails or the way they play with their hair or bounce their leg when they’re bored or restless. When you’re painting a portrait, those are the things you want to notice. Those are the things you use to form the image of the person. Paintings aren’t photographs: they don’t just capture the surface level of what the person looks like at that very moment. Painting someone is like catching the essence of them, cupping it in your hands like a butterfly. Holding it too tightly will crush it. Hold it too loosely, and it’ll fly away from your painting, leaving it empty.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“Before I learned how vile love is, how predatory. The way it attaches itself to a host and infects it from the inside, leeching all life and emotions from it until the host is nothing more than a husk. The way it’s addictive even as it destroys. And if love is the drug—the poison—then sex is the cure, the crimson antidote.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“Because forgiveness isn’t redemption,”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“Playlist You’re Mine - Phantogram Animal - Caroline Rose Journal of Ardency - Class Actress Hurts Like Hell - Fleurie So Good - Warpaint Mad About You – Hooverphonic Daft Pretty Boys – Bad Suns Blue Obsession – Geographer Fight or Flight Club – Madge Bending Back – Art School Girlfriend Fall In Love – Phantogram Golden Boy – Bryce Fox American Money – BØRNS Want You So Bad – The Vaccines Swoon – Beach Weather The Love Club – Lorde Affection – BETWEEN FRIENDS striptease – carwash Guilty Pleasures – Georgi Kay Mistakes Like This – Prelow Electric Love – BØRNS The Fool You Need – Son Lux iloveyou – BETWEEN FRIENDS”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Knight

“Start a new list, Lynch, and put my name on it. Spend the rest of your life punishing me. For every time you do, I’ll give you something new to avenge. I’ll set Cerberus on you again if I have to. I’ll throw away everything you bake, I’ll tear up every last one of your comic books. I’ll make your life a living hell, Lynch, if only you stay close to punish me for it.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Devil

“I want Willow to move back into my house, I want her to cook her disgusting meals in my kitchen and read her disgusting comic books on my couch. I want her sleeping in my bed. I want to kiss her stupid mouth and lick her stupid cunt. I want to hunt her and fight her and fuck her on every surface of my property and in every Four Seasons hotel in the world. I want to put a collar on her neck and a ring on her hand, I want to make her my fucking wife and get her pregnant with my children.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Devil

“I absolutely, undeniably, inexorably love you.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“I don’t need a girlfriend,” I tell her in my most dignified tone. “I have a beautiful rival instead.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“You’re the only thing worth having. You’re the only thing I want.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Devil

“Roi Soleil.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“Love isn’t a little flower drowning in the ocean, you young fool. Love is an inferno. It’ll burn wherever it’s growing.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“I love you, Willow Lynch, I love you and I fucking hate it. You’ve managed to turn my entire body into a playground for your pleasure, my every thought into a shrine dedicated to your chaos. I can’t tell if loving you is a sickness or just a manifestation of my own self-destruction, but it’s something I’ll never be free from. Loving you is a punishment, it’s the hell in which I’ll suffer for eternity.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Devil

“I’ll pick up every highlighter and pen you drop. I’ll hold every door open and carry all your books. Just ask me, Theodora, and I’ll do it.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“Progrès avec la petite Nishihara? Any progress with the little Nishihara?”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“on Rococo portraits.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“So Aletheia—what is it the German guy said? Disclosure?” “Heidegger. Yes, disclosure, but also unhiddenness. Unconcealedness.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Prince

“But there’s no chance I can possibly be truthful for this particular assessment. Because if I was, I would need to admit that beauty for me is a quiet girl with a brilliant mind, a debate team captain with a calm voice and textbooks covered in colour-coded annotations. Beauty for me is a girl with cold skin and a faraway gaze, a girl who loves children’s books but rarely laughs. Beauty for me is sage-green silk and soft white wool and forget-me-not eyes. My definition of beauty starts and ends with Theodora.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Saints

“Start a new list, then.” He finally detaches him from me, and I hear him zip himself up before he takes my arm to gently pull me upright to face him. He pulls my panties back on, fixes my dress, tucks strands of my hair behind my ears. His touch is almost tender, his voice is a plea. “Start a new list, Lynch, and put my name on it. Spend the rest of your life punishing me. For every time you do, I’ll give you something new to avenge. I’ll set Cerberus on you again if I have to. I’ll throw away everything you bake, I’ll tear up every last one of your comic books. I’ll make your life a living hell, Lynch, if only you stay close to punish me for it.”
― Aurora Reed, Spearcrest Devil