Lili St. Germain > Quotes

“Confucius said, “Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I planned to dig seven.”
― Lili St. Germain, Seven Sons

“It’s true what they say—keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Only, they forgot to add: Don’t keep your enemies so close that they can strike without warning.”
― Lili St. Germain, Six Brothers

“Our fate lies in the hands of the things we love, and sometimes the things we love are the things that lead us to the destruction of ourselves.
r.m. drake”
― Lili St. Germain, Cartel

“It’s hot, and I can feel sweat beads starting to gather between my new breasts. It’s funny, I’m still getting used to actually having something decent on my chest. It kind of sucks not being able to sleep on my front, though. Once this is all over, I’m definitely getting them reduced.”
― Lili St. Germain, Seven Sons

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.   - William Shakespeare, Hamlet”
― Lili St. Germain, Five Miles

“I had a sudden violent daydream of murdering him with a stapler as I started the coffee machine in the kitchen.”
― Lili St. Germain, Cartel

“But he wasn’t an ordinary man. Somehow I already knew this from our brief interaction earlier. He didn’t avert his eyes or stay away from me.”
― Lili St. Germain, Cartel

“He shakes his head minutely. “What are you doing to me?” he breathes, his eyes never leaving mine. I’m loving you, I think. But I can’t say that, so I show him instead. I close the small distance between us, pressing my lips to his. He groans softly, a sort of primal noise that begins in the back of his throat and makes my tongue quiver as it finds his. His other hand goes to my waist, to the place where I am scarred underneath all that pretty coloured ink, and I shudder involuntarily. He moves the hand on my face to the back of my neck, pulling me closer, kissing me deeper. I feel like I am falling forever, but it is a good fall. It feels amazing. It feels like I was born to love this man.”
― Lili St. Germain, Six Brothers

“Don’t you ever want to hurt yourself because you can’t hurt the person who fucked everything up?”
― Lili St. Germain, Cartel

“When this is over, I’m going to marry you. We’re going to have lots of babies, and I’m buying you a fucking minivan. Okay?”
― Lili St. Germain, One Love

“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“Jase looks intrigued, and I have to wonder if he senses something about me. About us. After all, I might be Samantha now, but before that I was Juliette, the first girl he ever loved.”
― Lili St. Germain, Seven Sons

“Sometimes,” I whisper, “I wish we were different people. That we’d been born into another life. That we didn’t have to fight so hard just to have each other.” He simply nods, bringing one of my hands up to his mouth and kissing the back of it so slowly, so tenderly, I feel like I might break in two. “It’s worth it, though,” I add, my skin burning pleasantly where his lips have touched.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“Riding with Dornan just feels wrong. I don’t feel free in the wind; I feel trapped, like a butterfly encased in glass.”
― Lili St. Germain, Six Brothers

“This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance”
― Lili St. Germain, One Love

“It wasn’t your fault,” he adds. My eyes slide back to the floor. “Yes, it was,” I reply.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“Love isn’t always a happy thing. Sometimes it’s a dirty habit, a vice that makes you miserable with need. A desperate addiction that threatens to kill you in every moment that you spend apart. There’s no happiness in love when you know it has an expiration date. Only an anxious, gnawing grief of a future you both already know, a day when you’ll be forced apart.”
― Lili St. Germain, Vicious Prince

“She's right here beside me, but I can feel her slipping away. I'm losing her, I'm losing us. I don't know what to do. It's like being tapped in a three-by-three cell all over again. It's like being held under water and deciding when to take that first gasp of water that's going to make you drown. It's like holding hands, both your palms slicked with your collective blood, in a fucking nightmare that never ends.”
― Lili St. Germain, Zero Hour

“He kisses me with a reckless urgency that makes my heart beat wildly, like he’s going to devour me, like we’re going to become one. His hands are everywhere, firm and insistent as I melt into him.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“head explodes like a watermelon under a jackhammer, bits of blood and slush splattering a 360 around where he was standing just a second ago. I feel him pulled from inside me, and then a crash as what’s left hits the hardwood below.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gun Shy

“She told him everything, and as soon as she’d finished, all John wanted to do was bundle up every word that she’d uttered and hand it back to her. Because there was power in knowledge, but there was danger, too.”
― Lili St. Germain, Kingpin

“I looked down at what was in my hand. My coat, the one that I’d wrapped the baby in. The one that I’d used to try and stem the flow of blood from Dornan’s bullet wound.

Life begins, and life ends. So fast. So fleeting.”
― Lili St. Germain, Kingpin

“Your father was in prison,”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“fixed on one another, he mouths the words I’m sorry. I shake my head. I was the one who stormed out of his house all those months ago. I should be the one who’s saying sorry.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“Vitamins, baby girl. It’s a little late, but we want our boy to be strong, don’t we?”
― Lili St. Germain, Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series

“Complacency is the drug I swallowed the night Leo went to prison. Complacency is the price I have paid for the illusion of my own survival.”
― Lili St. Germain, Gun Shy

“Grief is seasonal. Disbelief comes and goes, and leaves an aching pit of sadness for you to somehow carry around while you smile and nod and pretend you're not dead inside.
Grief is useless. It's like drowning in a sea of your own despair because you won't grab on to the rope being offered to you. So you let yourself be sucked under, you let the rough waters invade your nose and your mouth and your ears and your eyes until your dead on the inside, hollowed out, a walking corpse. Grief makes you weak.
But rage...rage is useful. It is the tiny seed that sprouts inside you and spreads like tendrils on a vine. It weaves itself around your veins, sticks in its barbs, and reminds you that you are still alive. It burns in your blood, that blood passes through your heart, and over time you fill up your hollow with something else. Rage....And purpose.”
― Lili St. Germain, The Field of Wrongdoing

“Missed you too,’ he murmured against my skin, the indents where his teeth had pierced my flesh humming with a pleasant pain.”
― Lili St. Germain, Kingpin

“I assure you, I'm not the monster in this fucked-up fairytale....”
― Lili St. Germain, One Love