Emma Langen > Emma's Quotes

“Baby, you rule the fucking kingdom, and I will gladly bow to you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I want to slap him. But the asshole would probably like it, and then turn around and slap me back. And my dumbass self would probably like it, too.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Cat got your tongue, little mouse?”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Sneaking off with random men, little mouse? If I catch his hands anywhere near you, they’ll end up in your mailbox by morning. A”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Sometimes the happiest people are the saddest,”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I don’t care if I need to set this world on fire until there’s no one left but you and me. The world will burn around us, and I’ll gladly live in chaos with you as long as the only person that is a danger to you is me.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Zade,” he whispers against my lips. “That’s the only name that will ever leave your lips from now on, especially when you’re making that little pussy feel good. And when I’m making that pussy feel good, then you can call me God.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I’m going to burn the entire fucking world down until I find her, and I don’t care who gets burnt.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Because then I wouldn’t be true to myself, little mouse. I love that I scare you. I love that you try to run from me. The push and pull. The cat and mouse game. I fucking love it. And I think a part of you does, too.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“If my redemption resides somewhere within you, then I will spend the rest of my life searching for it inside of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I may own every breath in your body, but make no mistake, Adeline, you own mine, too. I am yours to command. To bend and break. To mold and manipulate. Do you think that makes me weak? Or do you think I'm strong enough to admit that even though my body can physically live on without you, I would never get my fucking soul back?”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“Come on, man. Are you this worked over a piece of ass? Her voice may be cut out for porn, and her pussy tight as fuck, but shit, you can find that in other bitches too. I’ve fucked plenty of them.” What was going to be a fairly slow death is now going to be the slowest death to ever happen since the dawn of humanity. It was bad enough that he spoke of my girl in such a disgusting manner, but then he went and topped it off by implying Addie isn’t anything special. She’s the first of her kind to exist, and there will never be another like her.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Our mouths are touching the same spot,” she says shakily. “Does that count as kissing?”

“You tell me, little mouse. When I make you cry out for God, does that count as praying?”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you—you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“His voice is full of dark promises and dangerous beginnings.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“I’m not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Zade may be Hades, but the dark God has never been known to bow for anyone but his woman.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I’ll have her because she’s the first thing that made me feel something good in so long, and I’ve become obsessed with keeping it. I don’t have very many something goods in my life, and I don’t care if it makes me selfish for wanting to hold on to it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“You’re going to murder him too?”

“Of course I am. Slowly, too. Start with snipping the Achille’s heel so he can’t run, and then—”

“That's fucked up, you're going to jail,” she cuts in, disgust curling her lip. “Actually, I hope you go to prison and are sentenced to death.”

She turns with a snarl, but she doesn’t make it a step before my hand snaps out, capturing her arm and whipping her back around, directly into my chest.

Addie inhales sharply, her eyes dilating as I seize the back of her neck with one hand and grab her delectable ass with the other, lifting her up against my body.

"Will you be my last meal, baby?”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“She still spoke to Ravi every day. Not the real one, the one who lived in her head. She spoke to him when she was scared or unsure, asked him what he would do if he were there. He sat beside her when she was lonely, and she was always lonely, looking at old photos on her phone. He told her goodnight and kept her company in the dark while she learned how to sleep again.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead