S.C. Arlette > Quotes

“Would you rather be listed as my wife?” I narrow my eyes. “I’d rather be listed as your executioner, but they don’t offer that option, do they?” Zane chuckles, dragging his tongue over his bottom lip, tasting the words I just threw at him. “You don’t need a title to tie me up and make me beg, I’m already yours to command.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“She’s the kind of beautiful that feels like an exorcism gone wrong, and I am a man undone by the mere thought of her.”
― S.C. Arlette

“I’ll hunt you down,” I let the words slip out as I drag my lips closer to hers without touching, “and our love will be like those stars in the night sky, forever aligned.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“I don’t want you to like me.” His fingers curl beneath my chin, tilting my face up to meet his. “I want you to worship me.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“You’ll hide every time you realize you’ve fallen in love with me,” I tease, my breath spilling hot against her ear, “but in each new life...”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“I’ll be right there, aligning the stars to rewrite our story in every lifetime.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“People scream over a harmless little rat snake but sleep next to men who beat them.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“I know this is a sin. A sin so deep, so damning, that I should be on my knees in a church right now, praying for absolution. For the sins I’ve already committed. For the ones I know I’m about to.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“You asked if I believe in anything. I believe in power. The power to shape your world, to rise above the mediocrity of people clinging to their illusions.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“You think pussy only gets wet when a girl’s wrapped in rose petals and given a diamond ring? You think fear and desire don’t live in the same goddamn bed?”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“My mind is clearer than it’s been in days. Like I just walked through the gates of hell and came out the other side baptized in pain and pleasure.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“I don’t just want her. Want is too small, too human. I need her. In my blood, in my veins, in the space between my ribs where the ache of her absence would turn me into something unrecognizable. The universe was reckless to let me see her. Because now? I won’t stop until she’s mine. If I have to break her to make her stay, then so be it. A shattered version of her is better than a version I don’t own. I’ll be the nightmare she won’t wake from. The obsession she won’t escape. And the addiction she’ll crave more than freedom.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“Fear is the last emotion to shut down in your body.” I look up at him. “And what happens when it does?” “Then you’re already gone,” he says. “Even if your body’s still moving, even if you’re still breathing. If fear’s gone, it means there’s nothing left to fight for. Nothing left to run from. No instinct left to save yourself. That’s when you stop being a person and start being a shell.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“I spot Faith before my brain even fully registers it. And fuck me, I almost need to grab onto something to keep from going to my knees.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“So, how do I look?” Mark snorts, shaking his head. “Like she’d fuck you and then walk straight into confession.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“Humanity’s greatest trick isn’t kindness; it’s the ability to mask cruelty behind it.”
― S.C. Arlette

“Find yourself a boyfriend, someone who’ll treat you right and respect your space. Because I won’t just bend your morals, I’ll fucking break them.”
― S.C. Arlette

“Many of the scenes—especially those involving snakes or extreme behavior—”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“I hate him, but my pussy is aching.”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom

“Trash smells the same no matter how much perfume you drown it in,”
― S.C. Arlette, Craving Venom