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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“Because you’re going to be my wife. You’ve already taken my heart, my body, and my butchered soul, so you’ll take my fucking last name too.”
― Leigh Rivers, Restitution

“My soul is shattered and broken, and I lose all the pieces, unable to glue it back together.

Look at me now, my little princess. Daddy's gone, and he's
never coming back." - Kade Mitchell”
― Leigh Rivers, Voracious

“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

“The only girl I've ever imagined giving my heart to. It might be a little black and a little jagged around the edges and my mind might be a little wild, but she owns them. Olivia owns my mind, body and soul.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“Naked. Exposed. Branded with my mouth and my initials burned into her, and little cuts from my knife. She looks perfect. She looks like mine.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger

“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