Keri Lake > Quotes

“Jealousy is a callow schoolboy’s emotion that ends in hard feelings and bloody noses. What I feel for you, Miss Vespertine, would destroy lives.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“That is the tragedy of women, isn’t it? We deny ourselves beauty for the sake of misleading men.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“Unfortunately for you love, I take my pleasure with a shot of pain”
― Keri Lake, Somnium

“What separates monsters from good men is only a matter of perspective.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“Calling her beautiful was like calling the sun lukewarm. She’d blazed like the hottest part of a flame in that dress. And fuck me, I’d felt the heat.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“Says who? I happen to get very attached to my fictional boyfriends.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“She was the warmth of the sun on a cold and rotting corpse. The first breath after a lifetime of death.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“He was moody, like rainy days and bitter coffee. Sensual whispers in dark corners and the slow burn of fine whiskey.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“For those who feel lost in a dark and pathless wood. Believe in the magic beyond the trees.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“We’re not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings.”
― Keri Lake, Somnium

“You’re my curse. Staying away from you, is like trying to hold my breath when the tide is rising … I want to drown in you.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“Together, we are madness. And there is music in madness, and madness in love.”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“That I would kill for you without a beat of hesitation, or remorse. And yet, at the same time, I could be reduced to nothing more than a pile of ash without you.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“I find it interesting that any time a girl is unusual, or dare I say, unique, she’s deemed evil, or cursed.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“Strong women will always bear the dangerous burden of a weaker man’s pride.”
― Keri Lake, Nightshade

“I’d rather walk a mile with a cucumber up my ass than fuck you.”
― Keri Lake, Ricochet

“Don’t hide from me, Lilia. You are no less beautiful than that day you walked into my classroom and stole my fucking breath.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“And so the moth befriended the flame.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“I feel it, too,” he said, as if reading my mind. “It’s inside of me. Burning like a fever I can’t shake. It’s a spiteful, prideful anger that refuses to admit the truth.” “What truth?” I asked, my voice shaky. Nervous. “That I would kill for you without a beat of hesitation, or remorse. And yet, at the same time, I could be reduced to nothing more than a pile of ash without you. I’m weak for you, Lilia.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“Allow me to caution you, Miss Vespertine. You are a confused moth dancing about a wild flame. Blind to the incomprehensible danger of your curiosities.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“I want you. I want you so desperately that I’d kill anything with a pulse just to have you for one night. This insatiable craving I feel …” A muscle in his jaw twitched with the tension in his words and he squeezed my hand. “I can’t fucking breathe. I ache for you, Maevyth. Believe me when I say this.” But he didn’t bother to say why he hesitated.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“Emotions I was forced to keep hidden for fear of looking possessed by evil, as girls were often perceived when they felt too much.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“the heart is a dangerous organ that isn’t meant to be free. Why else would God have built a cage for it?”
― Keri Lake, Master of Salt & Bones

“I’m not going anywhere. You and I? This? There’s no escaping it. Doesn’t matter how fast you run, or how far you get, I will always be inside you just like this. In your bones and in your blood and in your head. It doesn’t matter what you tell the universe–what secrets you spill. Nothing can change what we are, what we’ve become.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“You are mine, moon witch. For all eternity and whatever lies beyond it. No soul has ever been more intricately woven into mine than yours.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“A villain is quite capable of love. It’s only the matter of what he’s willing to sacrifice for that love which separates him from a good man.”
― Keri Lake, Nightshade

“The stars in the sky are the souls of the people we love. They shine so bright, not even the night can hide them. And when we’re lost, they guide us.”
― Keri Lake, Ricochet

“I have crossed the endless void of time and space, over the centuries I've waited, with a yearning to see your face once more. If you think that I could just let you go now, when fate has gifted me the impossible, then you've not yet met the depths of my obsession. It has no bounds where you're concerned, Farryn. I would fight all the evils of hell for you, but I do not possess the strength to set you free.”
― Keri Lake, Nightshade

“I don’t give a damn about every other girl. There’s only one who crosses my mind a fuck-ton more than she should. So, I’m going to finish you, Lilia. I’m going to give you the release you’ve been craving, and I won’t touch you again. But this pussy belongs to me. You let any other undeserving prick near it, and I will cut out his tongue and send it to you in a specimen jar.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“Everything is poison with the proper dose. Even you.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema