Lee McCormick > Quotes

“I love you.” My words made his eyes widen in shock, but I didn’t have time to wait for it to wear off. “I’ve loved you since the moment we met. I’m sorry I killed you, Kade… but I’m not sorry it brought you here.” The fingers that brushed against his lips trembled. “Maybe in our next life, things will be different? It can be you and me. Maybe we’ll finally fit. Soulmates, right?”
― Lee McCormick, Beyond Time

“Seth, running from me won’t do you any favors.” He murmured the words, but his eyes were fixated on my lips. “You’re playing a dangerous game. The next time I catch you, I promise… you won’t get away.”  And maybe it was stupid to taunt him, but I couldn’t help it. I licked my lower lip and watched him track the movement, and then tilted my head. “Maybe I like to play with my food, too.”
― Lee McCormick, Beyond Time

“If I was a more romantic person, I’d say I was fulfilling the dying wish of the man who made my existence possible, but I wasn’t. I was selfish, and I knew why I was doing this.”
― Lee McCormick, Beyond Time

“I can’t believe Kerian came to my room”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“The alien and the puppy. That could be a Disney movie.”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“I should have wrapped him with a bow and given him back to Levi, so he’d feel safe.”
― Lee McCormick, Under Your Skin

“Sometimes, we get lucky and find the people who heal us.”
― Lee McCormick, Callback

“Hard from chasing me? Hard from biting me? Hard from catching me?”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“More”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“Beauty didn’t save you from Death,”
― Lee McCormick, Death's Kiss

“Absolutely fuck Zander Braithe and the way he’s making me take even two seconds to consider caring about what someone else thinks.”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“This could still be ours. And fuck—” He grinned as he stepped forward, looping his finger around the edge of my collar before tracing my lower lip. “If you’d really wanted it then, I would have taken it for you. I would have taken this entire place. Now… then… The rain doesn’t matter, Aubrey. I’d still burn the world down to get you whatever you wanted.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“Screw you, you roided-up theater teacher.”
― Lee McCormick, Callback

“Anyone could walk past. Anyone could see us in his car”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“He’s the first person to tap into this part of me”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“I can taste my absolute ruin on Zander Braithe’s tongue”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“don’t have a goddamn thing but Zander Braithe and his fucking smile shining like the north star and promising he’ll lead me home.”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“Zander looks at me like I'm salvation, like he's caught in the waves of the ocean and I'm reaching out my hand--safety, a lighthouse. I've never been anyone's light.”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“If you want to burn the entire world to the ground and leave it as nothing but ash, I’ll start the fire. If you want to kill every person who ever hurt you, I’ll be your weapon. Wherever you go, I’m with you.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“I didn’t kill bad people because they were bad. I killed bad people because they were convenient.”
― Lee McCormick, Under Your Skin

“I’d split him open and carve out every memory in his chest until there was only room for me. I’d eat his heart while it was still beating and give him mine to fill the hollow in his chest.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“I would have killed him for you, Aubrey. I would have torn his throat out with my teeth.” Phoenix gently bit against the curve of my back, and I squirmed, my breath hitching in my chest. “Our first kiss would have tasted like his blood, and you would have known that he was dead. I…” He paused and pressed a kiss where his teeth had just been. “I would never let someone hurt you and live.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“Zander looks at me like I’m salvation”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“It was the first time I knew having a heart wasn’t worth it, because having a heart meant knowing what it felt like for it to break.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue

“One minute”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“Like a key to a lock, we fit. Perfectly.”
― Lee McCormick, Blitz'd

“Bishop pulled his tags from around his neck when he saw the rabid, dropping them over my head with a smile that should have warned me something was wrong. His eyes were sweet when they looked at me, and his lips were soft when they pressed against mine. It was probably because he knew there were so many of them we weren’t getting out of there—probably because he knew I’d die to keep him safe.”
― Lee McCormick, Ash on the Tongue