C.J. Roberts > Quotes

“This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.”
― CJ Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“He was my tormentor and my solace; the creator of the dark and the light within.”
― CJ Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“I love you, Caleb. I love you! If you care for me at all... please, don't do this! Please, don't leave me. I don't know how to live without you. Don't make me go back to trying to be someone I don't know how to be anymore. - Livvie”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind..... you'll see that. -Caleb”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“What are you doing ?" She said and laughed.
"I was curious," he whispered.
"About what ?"
"If happy tears taste the same as the sad ones," he said.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“He had told her he wasn’t Prince Charming, but what he hadn’t said, was he wished he could be.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“Once upon a time, Caleb held me captive in the dark, now he used it to seduce me.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“She kisses my scars and I create new ones for her.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“Mine.
The word was a declaration. It rocked him to his very foundation. It was a truth he’d kept hidden for far too long. Caleb didn’t know anything about love, or loving anyone, but he knew… Livvie was his.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“Some stories aren't black and white.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“I’m writing this because you begged. You know how I love the begging”
― CJ Roberts, Epilogue

“Live for me, Kitten. Be all those things you'd never be with me. Go to school. Meet a normal boy and fall in love. Forgive me. It's time for you to go, Kitten. Time for us both, to go.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“I know you deserve to be happy. I know you deserve someone… better, but I’m selfish. I want you. I want you bad enough to try and be someone better.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“I was not crying - eyes water. I think we all know I'm a badass and I don't cry. - Caleb”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“For the love of Christ, shut-up! Let a bitch enjoy you mental breakdown in peace.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“What mattered is I was different. The naive girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. ~Livvie”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“I wrapped my arms around him and held on as hard as I could. He was my tormentor and my solace: the creator of the dark and the light within. I didn’t care that he would undoubtedly hurt me at any moment, right now; I just needed somebody to hold me… To tell me these exact words. Its going to be okay. It wasn’t of course, I knew that. But I didn’t care, I needed the lie.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“I'm done being the damsel in distress. I don't need anyone to save me.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“Yeah, but I’m the second most fucked up person I know, and when you put two negatives together, you get a positive. That’s math, Caleb. Math is the language of the universe. You can’t argue with the universe.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“Wait until you get inside. It's my favorite part.' And yes, gentle readers, I am that fucking smooth.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“For what it's worth Livvie, I never thought of you as a whore. And you are...the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“I"ve heard it said, time heals all wounds, but if a dream can pull you so deeply into your past you can't remember the present, I'm not sure my wounds will ever heal. Caleb lives in my dreams.”
― C.J. Roberts, Seduced in the Dark

“Caleb was a strange person, cruel and inhuman; a monster, and yet, at other times, he seemed so capable of something like caring. He made me cry and scream and shake with fear and nearly a split second later he could make me almost believe he wasn't responsible for any of it. He could hold me and make me feel safe. How was that possible?”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark

“Tell me you love me, Caleb," I whispered.
He kissed me, refusing. "I wish I could, Kitten”
― CJ Roberts, Seduced in the Dark