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

“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

“Like a key to a lock, we fit. Perfectly.”
― 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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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