Ally Avery > Quotes

“You want to know why it didn’t work out between me and Lydia? She wasn’t him. Is that what you want me to say?”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“Nathan in turn had his own peculiarities, and we fit together like two jagged, leftover puzzle pieces. Him outgoing and reckless and endlessly bored. Me with a head full of ideas and a rebellious fire in my heart that Nathan happily stoked. Before long, we were burning in it, and that fire lasted for six whole years.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“Who did this to you? Your asshole dad? I’ll kill him.” My face burned with guilt as well as the slap. I’d seen Nathan with far worse injuries, and I’d never once offered to kill his mom.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“He looks the same as he did at the grad party: hazy, unfocused. He begged me then too. And I did it; I fucked him face-to-face, and when I came, I whispered “I love you” into his mouth.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“Maybe some things can’t be mended. Maybe I have burned all my bridges after all. Maybe I should leave this place again and go back to where I came from. But that’s the thing: I don’t have anywhere to return to.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“I need to see Daniel again. He’s a bit like Rome, I suppose: all my roads lead back to him. I just hope at least one of those roads has a bridge left unburned.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“The boy I waited for. The boy I longed for. The boy I gave up on. The man I hate.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“He fucked other guys with abandon, but he always came back to me. Because we were friends, and he didn’t fuck his friends; he fucked mean guys who treated him like garbage.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted

“In many ways, he seems the same as he’s always been. His gaze is just as piercing. His smell is the same, as is his small, straight nose and his delicate, pretty-boy features. How can a person so beautiful be such an asshole? But now that he mentions it, something is different. There are dark circles under his eyes I do not recall. His eyes are more guarded, his mouth more downturned.”
― Ally Avery, Getting It Twisted