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“You've captivated my soul and breathe life into me when I've spent what feels like a hundred years and more feeling empty.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“I cannot love in the insipid way others do. What I feel is different; it's more. This thing I feel when I look at you is formidable. It burns through my veins and infects my mind with a weakness to you I've never felt. It's terrible.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“Every great man has enemies. It's the nature of being powerful... I will never bow to lesser men, nor will I be defeated.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“There's a feeling of power that comes when a woman chooses to bleed for you. Begs to bleed for you.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“She was standing on the precipice right now and if she jumped, she'd hurtle down to hell to sit beside me. If I ended up having to push her off the edge, that also counted.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“I am greater than you and every other creature that walks this Earth. I am the malefic shadow that haunts your waking nightmares.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“If human nature allows for such egregious impulses, who are we to deny what it has designed, what it so desperately craves?”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“You're named after a poison'
'Yes, Samara, and you're supposedly protected by god, but here you are fucking the devil.”
― Hemlock
'Yes, Samara, and you're supposedly protected by god, but here you are fucking the devil.”
― Hemlock
“You desperately pined for her and all I had to do was show her what it meant to be corrupted by the divine.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“For all I knew, they could be like that woman who made sourdough using her vaginal yeast infection.”
― My Turn
― My Turn
“Feel what it is to have the power to hold one's soul in your hand. And you know what? I think you'll like ripping it out.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“Never forget that I am a monster, Belladonna. I am a poison that all of humanity must fear.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“This isn't pure, patient, or kind. It's calamitous and cruel, powerful and all-consuming. Make no mistake about it's ferocity, Belladonna. It would have me not only sacrificing every other being for your pleasure, but also myself, and that is something I've never been willing to give someone.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“Or walk out that door, but know that I won't just sit back and let you leave like he would. I'll chase you and drag you back to me because that's what you really want. You want someone that loves you with the same all-consuming desperation you've felt your whole life.”
― Faded Pages
― Faded Pages
“Have you ever had a thought so dark you feared what would happen if anyone heard it?”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“I love to hurt you. Perhaps one day I'll choose to imprison and torture you so I can hear your screams day and night.”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock
“Darling, my name is Hemlock. Do you think I was given it because my mother thought I would be good?”
― Hemlock
― Hemlock





