LeTeisha Newton > Quotes

“Now, I was afraid that evil could be so beautiful”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Morals clung to thinning threads of my fear, but the monster would still rise”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“She writes the darker tales because life is hard … but love is harder”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“I survived, but it’s not a happy ending”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“I’d paint the fucking world red if that happened”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“This would be no ordinary sex. This would be dark, dangerous, kinky sex. The kind you only heard about in fucked-up books and movies”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“My will to survive had all but diminished, my happiness lost”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Fashioned by the devil, born of a demon, and tested through the fire, she’d come out made of pure stone and as pervasive as whispers in the dark”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“You’re going to take my dick in your tight little pussy and love it. You’re going to beg for more like the little slut you are and never make a fucking sound unless it’s to moan in pleasure”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Love needed to be terrified of us”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Because I’m the king to your wicked fucking empress, and I’m going to put you on that fucking throne”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“There was nothing worse than seeing the one person in your life who made you even marginally human stop breathing”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“How could God forgive the Devil’s son”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“You’re obsessed. You’re preoccupied with the idea of us, the love you’ve imagined we shared, and you can’t let it go”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Then we’ll make it, Alana. Fuck, we’ll beat love bloody and pull its fucking fingernails off. We’ll hold it down and strip it to tears and a visceral mess. We’ll fuck its head up until what we have is the only kind of love it understands. And then, Alana, love will mean us, what we are, what we’ve created.”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“She confused me. Right now, I wanted to pull her into my arms and run my fingers through her hair to soothe her. I wanted to kiss her and rock her to sleep. I wanted her protected. But I wanted to be inside her. With me inside her, my father’s touch would be replaced. I’d erase him from her psyche the only way I knew how”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“And so our wedding rings became a crown of thorns tattooed around our ring fingers with pricks of blood. Us. Dark. Everlasting”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Alana was an airborne infection I’d breathed in so long ago, and I was dying to have her again—to have her breath searing my face, her walls clamping around me, and her sharp nails gouging my flesh. I was sick from her, pulsating with fever and delirious vision, but what a fucking way to go. Perhaps dying at the hands of my vicious little vixen wouldn’t be such a bad thing, but for the first time in my life, I wanted to truly live”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Hear me? I love you. Even if I don’t wake from this, I need you to know that. I need you to realize I will always love you, in life and in death. You’re my soul mate, my other half. Without you, I am not complete. Thank you for saving me. Thank you for loving me. For showing me who you truly are, who I truly am, and thank you for sharing the last few months with me”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Most people never understood trauma sometimes damaged one’s psyche so much that it fundamentally changed who they were”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Love was a nuisance. Not that it existed for monsters like me anyway”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“But our pain didn’t have to fucking destroy”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“I couldn’t even remember how to love my own parents or brother anymore. I was twisted. I was broken”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“We fucked hard and rough, leaving behind the rainbows for barbed wire fences and bullet wounds. For shattered glass and serrated blades. We left the niceness behind and came together like we were meant to—in rage, need, and fucking violence”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“For the first time since I was a teenager, I prayed. I prayed to live. I prayed to love”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“Don’t you ever fucking compare me to him. I may be a lot of things, but I am not my father”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“From him, we learned to enjoy the beauty of death, and that beauty could only be achieved by the destruction of perfection”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“You tortured me, punished me, but didn’t maim me. That connection, that moment of hesitation. Find our love there. And, hell, maybe obsession is what we’ll share”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“A broken woman who hides behind the mask of her darkness because she doesn’t know how to accept it. Won’t accept it”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark

“I could breathe, but it was only to gather enough air to scream”
― LeTeisha Newton, Whispers in the Dark