Simone Sumner > Quotes

“You may be a monster…….but you’re the monster I need.”
― Simone Sumner, Trust Fall

“She wasn’t supposed to mean this much to me.
But she did.
And it was killing me. Because love wasn’t supposed to be something I could afford. And yet, here I was—helpless, unable to pull away. The same chains that had bound me for so long were now wrapping around my chest, squeezing the breath from me.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“Birdie Bennett—city niece, pumpkin assassin, scarecrow strangler—shouldn’t have been anywhere near my priority list.”
― Simone Sumner, Falling Over You

“And I wasn’t sure if I was hoping she’d weather it—or if I secretly wanted to be the one who showed up when she couldn’t.”
― Simone Sumner, Falling Over You

“Her entire life, Cade. If you'd really listen to her, you'd know all she's ever wanted was to be loved.”
― Simone Sumner, Trust Fall

“It won't happen again, Little Bird. I will always be here to catch you when you fall.”
― Simone Sumner, Trust Fall

“She is not ruined.”
― Simone Sumner, Trust Fall

“A woman who pretended everything was fine even when her heart was unraveling thread by thread.”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“I couldn’t help thinking that if she chose to stay in Coyote Creek…well, maybe that dream world wouldn’t feel so ridiculous after all.”
― Simone Sumner, Falling Over You

“I’m not the monster in her nightmares—I’m the one who will tear them apart.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“That your diplomatic way of saying he’s a pain in the ass?”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“You’re becoming my undoing, Noelle.” His words linger in the air, heavy with an emotion I can’t quite place. “I don’t know what hold you have on me, but I can’t escape it. I’ve never felt like this before. And it fucking terrifies me.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“I want you here. You don’t have to keep earning your right to exist.”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“Noelle," he mutters, his voice low and almost possessive. "I may be a monster, but not to you. If anyone dares hurt you, I’ll become their worst nightmare. But you—no, you’ll never see that side of me. You are mine now, and I will protect you, no matter what it takes. There’s no turning back from this. This is our world, together.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“But part of me—an idiotic, curious, glutton-for-punishment part—wanted to see if it could.”
― Simone Sumner, Falling Over You

“Because you matter. More than you know.”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“Maybe we have to break just to understand how strong we really are.”
― Simone Sumner

“I’m only trying to make sure you survive. I can’t live without you.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“And I knew, as sure as the seasons turn, that I’d never be the same again.”
― Simone Sumner, Falling Over You

“I've got you," I murmured holding her close. And this time, I'm not letting go.”
― Simone Sumner, Trust Fall

“Why does my brain think Noah Sutton belongs in my dream montages?”
― Simone Sumner, Falling Over You

“I was running on caffeine, spite, and whatever self-worth I’d managed to tape back together”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“Some monsters wear their cruelty in quiet ways—through the bruises they leave in the spaces between words, the silences they force, the way they bend someone’s soul to their will.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“I don’t want you to be afraid anymore,” I whisper hoarsely. “You don’t have to apologize anymore. Just let me take care of you.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“Maybe I was still that seventeen-year-old girl with a cracked-open heart who never really figured out what to do after the boy who teased her in the hallway turned out to be the first person who saw her.”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“You’re not going anywhere. Not while I’m here. I promised you safety, and I don’t break my promises.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“Just that one simple line, as if it meant nothing.
As if he hadn’t flipped my world inside out with a fruit basket and a note.”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“He was starting to look a lot like hope in a tailored suit”
― Simone Sumner, Saint and The Sinner

“Yeah, Sweetheart. Breathe me in.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him

“I will be what she needs. I’ll make sure the world sees me as the monster who ends everything that’s haunted her. And then, once it’s all over, she’ll know I’m the one who saved her.”
― Simone Sumner, Caged By Him