Shantel Tessier > Quotes

“I’d set the world on fire, including myself, if it meant saving her.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“I vow.
You vow.
We vow.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“I want toxic. I want madness. I want someone who makes me question my sanity.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“When I burn the world down and they ask me why, I’ll tell them the devil asked me to do it. And I wanted to make him proud.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“Just know this, Blake. If you try to run from me, I will find you. And when I do, you will regret the day you left me.” Softening his eyes, he gives me a threatening smile. “You were mine yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” He gently kisses my forehead. The tenderness a contradiction to his threatening words. “And you will continue to be mine forever.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“If there’s no pain, then how do you know you’re alive?”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“Love? It doesn’t sound so foreign anymore. If loving someone means you’d burn the world to protect them, then I love her.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sacrifice

“They say love is patient and kind. I’m not either one of those things when it comes to Blakely.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“I can’t guarantee that I’ll grow old with her, but I will spend every second of every day that I’m alive proving to her that she comes first no matter what.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“I’m willing to be her devil as much as she’s willing to be my little demon.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“And when forced to choose—keep you or let you go—I will hurt you before I live a life without you.”
― Shantel Tessier, Carnage

“If she wants to watch this house burn, I'll hand her the fucking matches.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“Fuck, I love you,” he whispers, his hand wrapped around my neck, crushing the chain into my already sensitive skin. “Remember that when I rip you apart.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“my wife and I are a team. A Lord and a Lady.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“Even the devil catches feelings, or he wouldn’t go into rages. Even he knows how to love.”
― Shantel Tessier, I Dare You

“I made a vow to protect you, Blake, and I’ll show anyone who tries to hurt you my version of hell.” I’d set the world on fire, including myself, if it meant saving her.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“If life has taught me anything, it’s that it doesn’t stop when you need rest. You swallow your cries and you lift your chin. Because life doesn’t give a fuck about you. You either take it, or you let it kill you.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“I’ve seen what hell looks like, and I’ve embraced it, become it. Now, I will drag her down into the depths of it with me by the chains that I lock her up in, and we will burn together.”
― Shantel Tessier, Carnage

“Drop your feminism at the door. Haidyn Reeves is going to make you his good little dirty whore in every way.”
― Shantel Tessier, Madness

“As blood is my oath, you will forever belong to me and I to you.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sacrifice

“No two people love the same way. And everyone has a different opinion on what love actually is.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“It's not the violence I crave (...) Although I like it rough, I think it's more of the idea of a man being so overcome with desire for me that he can't be stopped. And the fact I have no say over what he does. The feeling of having no control makes me feel in control. I let him catch me even though I run. I let him do it even though I fight him.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“Do you ever just want to shut it all off? Not have to think about the next second of your life? Go on an unplanned road trip? Have a one-night stand with the cute guy you scrolled past on your timeline? Social media makes you think you have all this freedom, but you don’t. Not really. You’re stuck behind a device watching others live out their dreams. You post selfies of fake smiles and expensive clothes, hoping that someone will envy you. Reassure you just how good you have it. All the while hating your life. “Smile, dear, you never know who is watching you,”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“I vow. You vow. We vow. The ritual is what one must do in order to become a chosen. A chosen must be willing to surrender in all that they do.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“Welcome to hell, little darling. You’ll only be able to crawl as far as my chains will allow you.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sacrifice

“Never trust a man unless you know what he’d do to survive.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“I’m in the mood to fuck some shit up.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Sinner

“In a world where it’s either you or me…I’ll always choose you, doll face.”
― Shantel Tessier, Madness

“You’re my chosen one. Be proud. I know I am.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“There is no God here, sweetheart. Make no mistake, you will kneel for me, but the things I have planned for you are anything but holy.”
― Shantel Tessier, Carnage