Leigh Rivers > Quotes

“Please choose me. Nobody ever chooses me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Because I can’t talk? Because I can’t tell you how fucking breathtaking you are every second of every day? Because I can’t breathe without being near you? Someone like me… I’m different—I can’t be normal for you. I can’t defend you without using my fists or my bat, and I can’t touch you at the same time as telling you that you’re everything to me. I can’t whisper sweet nothings into your mouth and I can’t fucking marry you because not only am I your brother, but I’m defective.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Fucking sorry. That damn word echoes in my psyche—a curse that won’t fuck off.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Run, little stranger.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“No. You were mine when we were kids, and you’re mine now. You’ll always be mine.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“At least I got to kiss her.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“Losing your voice to everyone is one thing, but losing your voice to someone you loved – trusted – is ten million times worse. I’ve never been heard.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“Tobes. Help me,” Base says into the phone pressed to his ear. “The siblings are fucking in the backseat, and I’m certain the mute just spoke.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Liar

“She’s like my own sunrise. Beautiful. Perfect. She fills a part of me that’s been empty and dark for as long as I can remember.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I watch him take the black one and write down one word that makes no sense. Mine.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Believe me or don’t, but you’re the only person in my life, and you always have been. And when you take your last breath, or I take mine, that won’t fucking change. You. Are. Mine. My goddamn property, do you understand?”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“My name is Kade Mitchell, son of Tobias Mitchell, and I will not be fucking silent anymore.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Sorry’s just a word to try to get out of something, to dodge trouble if you’ve been caught out. Sorry’s a five-letter disgrace that shouldn’t even need to be used. It should be abolished from the fucking dictionary.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Are you going to be my forever, Freckles?”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“I want your heart, every single fucking fragment that I’ve broken over the years. I have your past and your present, and I want to be a selfish asshole and have your future.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“Don’t silence me like that, he signs furiously. Don’t ever fucking silence me, Olivia.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Mani pārdod seksam un nāvei, lai aizsargātu visus, kurus mīlu.” Kade leans into me more, raising his other hand between us to tuck another strand of hair behind my ear. I tilt my head, utterly confused by whatever language he’s speaking. He licks his lips. “Tajā skaitā jūs, vasaras raibumi.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“The first time I saw you, I was yours. I’ll always be yours, Freckles. Our girl will be proud of the woman you’ve become. You’ll both always be my girls.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“I like rough kisses that hurt.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Words like “missing you” and “I didn’t think it was possible to be without you, and now there’s a huge wall between us” and “will you visit me? I’m sorry for yelling at court” and my least favorite, a very dark time for me, “I’m not comfortable around these people. They call me a weirdo like the kids at school did because I won’t talk. Please don’t leave me in here,” yet she didn’t reply, even when my letters grew more desperate. No reply.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“And I want to hear your voice while I’m bouncing all over your cock, big brother.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Touch her again and I'll blow your fucking head off.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“It seems she has no idea how much I’m obsessed with her. Not just with her looks, but her heart, her fucking soul.”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“Malachi: Since you’re teaching me everything else, will you teach me how to say your name? I might fuck the pronunciation up a few times, but I want to know how to say it.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“For those who crave darkness yet hide in the light. You can come out now. Tobias is home.”
― Leigh Rivers, Psychotic Obsession

“Malachi Vize—my new favorite mute psychopath—is waiting for you.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“For the good girls who like to dance in the dark while being watched by the devil.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“Because you’re hiding, and I want to hide with you.” I caress her cheek and press my lips to her forehead, catching her off guard. “Let’s hide together, Freckles.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable

“I close my eyes and make a wish. I wish someone would choose me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Liar

“Please choose me. No one ever chooses me.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger