Cat Porter > Quotes

“Love not only stings when you lose it, when it’s ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“All this time Lock and I had managed to be civil to one another. No drama, all efficiency. But look him in the eyes? No, I couldn’t do that. That would cut me wide open, and there would be blood. Lots of blood. I’d crumble into a heap on the floor then beg him to collect the pieces.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“Truth is a painful sword. It cuts deep and stings, but the pain evaporates, the blood dries, and in the place of such savagery is a gleaming absolution and an absolute purity.
It’s blinding.
It hurts.
And it is utterly beautiful.
You can’t escape it.
Truth demanded a leap,
I took it.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“Already had a taste of you. I want more. Tell me you don't.”
― Cat Porter

“I didn’t grow up dreaming or wishing for things, Grace. Then I saw this woman in this motherfucking picture, and I let myself dream, let myself wish.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“To us then, Justine— the manipulated, the tossed off, the rejected.” Brandon held the half-full glass out to her. “Actually, I think you had better have some yourself. You are going to need it, wife.” His eyes glittered over her.
She took the glass from him, her cold fingers brushed his warm ones. She swallowed what was left in one go because she knew what he was thinking.
The inevitable.”
― Cat Porter, Wolfsgate

“Once, I loved. I stumbled here and there, but I loved well. It was definitive, remarkable. My compass.”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“You’re in my bones, Grace. Can’t stand straight without you, baby. Can’t.”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“Yes, I’d seen bright stars last night, but I’d shut my eyes against the glare.”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“All the rules changed. I’m holding you hostage, pretty. Who the hell do you think you are?”
“Just an old lady trying to make things right.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“Truth is a painful sword. It cuts deep and stings, but the pain evaporates, the blood dries, and in the place of such savagery is a gleaming absolution and an absolute purity.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“So why did I feel like I was on the outside looking in again? Tossed back on the dusty shelf, labeled, “just not good enough.”
― Cat Porter, Fury

“it’s how you deal in between the random hits that counts. The way you deal with each fuck you hurled at you. How you look that motherfucker in the eyes is the key to what kind of person you are.”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“She’s your woman. Shield her heart and soul with your own.” He turned to Grace. “He’s your man, yours to support and keep strong when he’s not able and when he doesn’t know how. You take care of each other, and you do it right. Do it well. Be fair.”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“It’s one thing being grateful for what you have, it’s quite another being satisfied.”
― Cat Porter

“There’s shit that’s random and shit you can control. It’s up to you to choose what you’ll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control?”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“Truth is a painful sword. It cuts deep and stings, but the pain evaporates, the blood dries, and in the place of such savagery is a gleaming absolution and an absolute purity. It’s blinding. It hurts. And it is utterly beautiful.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“This two-bit bar, this worn-out town, just a speck in the middle of a lonely grassy prairie with the stony hills beyond, the small fix-it-yourself house I’d bought for us—that was all ours, our world, our high life. It wasn’t name-brand, shiny, or white picket fences, but none of that mattered. As long as we were together, it was good, it was clean, it was ours.”
― Cat Porter, Random & Rare

“They may have convinced you all these years that you are nothing, unworthy of love, but I am telling you you are, and I love you.” His eyes flared a deep green color and he leaned in closer to her. “You are starved for it, Lady Graven, starved, just as much as I am.”
― Cat Porter, Wolfsgate

“We've got all night to make up for years of wondering about it." - Butler”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“Truth is a painful sword. It cuts deep and stings, but the pain evaporates, the blood dries, and in the place of such savagery is a gleaming absolution and an absolute purity. It’s”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“A dimple in the chin means the devil within,”
― Cat Porter, Fury

“You get comfortable, even when you’re unhappy, don’t you think? Sometimes, it’s really hard to take charge of your own unhappiness”
― Cat Porter, Iron & Bone

“Love you no matter what, so just suck it up.” But”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“We’re the new playthings in the neighborhood, don’t you know?”
― Cat Porter, Wolfsgate

“I slid my hand over his heart.
"I'm clawing my way in there deep."
"I can feel it, Scarlett. Make it hurt.”
― Cat Porter, Blood & Rust

“This is where I want to be. With you. Inside you.” He nestled his cock deeper inside her. Her back arched against him, a cry escaping her lips, her body immobile under his firm grip. “This is all I know right now. And I like it.”
― Cat Porter, Wolfsgate

“You and me are happening. It’s not an illusion, and there’s nothing confusing about it. It just is.” “It”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“Always looking out for me, my big sister, no matter what. Even on her dying breath.”
― Cat Porter, Lock & Key

“To be touched with intent. To be looked at. Really looked at. For a man to see me, truly see me. That recognition, acknowledgment, that appreciation. That's what I want. Where is that? Where did that go?”
― Cat Porter, Blood & Rust