Brandy Hynes > Quotes

“So, unfortunately, my girl glimmers like nothing more than a deceitful, shiny obstacle to Gage.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy

“I need her compliant, not cowering. She certainly doesn’t disappoint.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy

“While some of those judgments have been so vastly off base that they bounced right off me, one was more poignant than I’d been prepared for. He labeled me a chameleon, claiming I don’t know my own color, and maybe I don’t—not beyond the smoke and fire. Because that horror has charred every moment after, and the only way to breathe in smog is with a mask. What if I choke without it?”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Gavin Wells.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy

“I wish I knew what would deliver a thrill for me.” “Easy,” he says, half distracted. “It’s usually the very thing you’re told not to do.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“My dress certainly displays my assets. And he took note of every single one. But when I was on that staircase, he wasn’t only regarding my sultry bends. He was entangling my soul, reeling it in for closer examination. Trying to dissect me in a way I’ve never experienced, which was unsettling. Disconcerting.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“just can’t keep myself from taunting him. It’s like skydiving. Liam Graves chasing me might be the biggest rush I’ll ever experience. A free-falling thrill of untethered fantasies. Too much of a high to pass up.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Cheetahs are beautiful, but the meat is useless. Can’t eat it. Kind of like a pretty face on an empty shell.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“On his way? Oh fuck. That can’t be good. My throat dries, so I lift my wine and swig the nearly full glass in a single unladylike guzzle. Scott’s eyes fling to mine in alarm. Yep. That’s right. Twenty-four years of etiquette washed down with cabernet, buddy. I’m spiraling here. For both of us. You should drink up, too, before the demented gangster arrives to claim me. Jesus, I kind of love that. Not the time.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Spoiled but smothered. Loved but locked down. A privileged prison is still a shackling.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Look at that. You talk like a brat, but you jumped right up to do as I ordered. Good girl, Ivy. You’ll do just fine.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy

“I’m not saying good things don’t shape us. They do. But devastation is far more formative. Metal can only be bent and molded when immersed in a fire. People are similar.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Ben was your brother’s name.” I think I probably knew that, saw it at some point in the Carver files, but it didn’t register until now. “Benjamin Caden Carver,” she confirms. “The Carver darling who was expected to be president someday. Charisma. Charm. A genius. A rising law associate. Driven. And real. That’s what made him better than all the rest. He was so damn real.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“The intimacy of this night is seeping into my blood, rushing through me, swishing in my ears, so that all I can concentrate on is how no one has ever cared for me like this. Who knew something so tranquil could be so exhilarating?”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“don’t buy into the narrative of evil being snuffed out by good. Dark eclipsed by light. Wrong vanquished by right. That’s all surface-level fairy tales, created by those who reside on the outskirts of the dismal shadows.”
― Brandy Hynes, Charring Bones

“That deep dive might be a new craving. To have someone who will search me, drowning my soul in his gaze and becoming my oxygen. Liam Graves is most definitely oxygen—one way or another. But I’m not a fool. Oxygen can either birth our breaths or fuel the fire. Even the air has choices. And I’m not sure if Liam wants to keep me warm, help me breathe, or burn me to ashes.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Life unfolds so differently when you’re moving through it than it does when you still a snippet.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“The women who captivate men like us aren’t the pieces of ass you generally convince to drop their panties. They’re the pains in the ass—independent, doing-fine-without-you, crawl-under-your-skin women who fuck with your head.” “Yeah,” Ty interjects with a chuckle. “You’re so fucked, man.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Usually, moments and people long awaited pale in comparison to the imagined. The buildup is so often the demise. But Ivy Kingston has shattered that theory. So worth the wait.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy

“Because I’ll always show up, Ace. No matter how dark it gets, I’ll always fucking show up. That’s our fairy tale.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“A life without risk is flatlining, squirt. Don’t let ambitions or the allure of luxury and prestige rob you of the thrill a single moment can deliver. That’s all life really is—a string of moments. Make ’em good.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I’d never been so impressed in my life,” he says with such reverence that it radiates off him. “He rose so fast. He was exactly how he is now—always the best; a hard-ass, dominating every room. But behind closed doors, he cared. He asked questions, paid attention. Mentored. No one had ever done that for me.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“There’s something about tender devotion among rough men that is immensely touching.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I like that you make me feel something, Liam. It doesn’t matter what the emotion is. It’s more than I ever feel.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“He steps closer—close enough that there’s a crackling, like the very molecules of the air are pulverized by whatever this energy is between us.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“While I’m enchanted by this softer side of her, there’s still that matter of her playing me in the elevator to resolve. Payback’s a bitch, Ace.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“If I lose the best out of three, I’ll go to Magie Noire with you.” I pause for effect, slanting my head to the onyx-haired gentleman at the table. “And Maddox.” “And me.” Jax raises his hand. “That’s how we roll.” “Fine, Magic Jax. And you,” I allow. His pierced lips flourish into a boyish grin. “You’re on, pretty lady,” Cash says, shuffling the cards. “Three rounds of blackjack to determine the winner.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“On the flip side, if someone is missing, we find them.” “So, you erase people and find people who’ve been erased?” I repeat, trying to wrap my mind around what he’s telling me, all that it would entail.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy

“They don’t see me as a pretty face with nothing to offer. They see me as a secret weapon, full of talents that can work in their favor, carrying on the honor of the Carver name.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“We all have our demons, Ivy. I just appease mine with a smile.”
― Brandy Hynes, Burning Ivy