Morally Grey Quotes

“I’ve learned that people can find strength when they have someone to protect. And I’ve found the person I want to protect.”
His head lifted from my neck and he looked down at me, his gaze studying my face. “You,” he whispered.”
― J.C. Böhme, His Savior

“I would gladly let you drag me to hell with you,” I whispered against her forehead.
I would fervently kiss the very ground she walks on, even as we descend into the scorching depths of hell.
But she couldn’t hear it.
She had already fallen asleep.”
― J.C. Böhme, His Savior

“Glaza - zerkalo dushi,” I murmured, the Russian words tumbling off my tongue.
Curiosity etched on his features, he quirked an eyebrow and asked softly, “What does that mean?”
“That’s a Russian saying. It means that the eyes are the mirror of one’s heart. Your eyes were one of the first things I noticed about you. So bright. So mysterious. So beautiful. Like your heart,” I replied, pointing to his chest with my finger and telling his heart, “Ya budu zashchishchat’ vas do samogo kontsa.”
I will protect you to the end.
I saw how the wheels were turning in his brain as he tried to translate it with his little knowledge of Russian.
“I... will,” he tried to translate.
A smile formed on my lips. Cute.”
― J.C. Böhme, His Savior

“I’m dragging everyone to hell with me.” “I would gladly let you drag me to hell with you.”
― J.C. Böhme, His Savior

“Let’s do something about that mouth of yours, hm?” The corners of my mouth lifted into a playful smile, causing dimples to appear on either side of my cheeks. I saw her amused expression change, slowly becoming redder as she visibly swallowed.
She blushed.
Anastasia Lenkov just fucking blushed.”
― J.C. Böhme, His Savior

“She was light and warmth and all things good. All things a man like him did not deserve.

But he was taking them all the same.”
― Demi Winters, The Road of Bones

“I tried in my way to be a good guy for her but I set us both up to fall. She fell in love with a man who doesn’t exist and in turn, I punished her for loving him.”
― Candice M. Wright, Coerce

“Learn how to kill without crying and I'll loop you in.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Every great man has enemies. It's the nature of being powerful... I will never bow to lesser men, nor will I be defeated.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“You've captivated my soul and breathe life into me when I've spent what feels like a hundred years and more feeling empty.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“I cannot love in the insipid way others do. What I feel is different; it's more. This thing I feel when I look at you is formidable. It burns through my veins and infects my mind with a weakness to you I've never felt. It's terrible.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Whatever was in his gaze told me I was strong, beautiful. Something to be praised.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“It might have been ironic, but Lock, the tormenter of men, was my peace.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“She was standing on the precipice right now and if she jumped, she'd hurtle down to hell to sit beside me. If I ended up having to push her off the edge, that also counted.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Because I opened her fridge? I didn't open her legs, did I? Stop being paranoid.”
― Marilyn Shae, Minefields

“I was born to be your god and I have the power to end your miserable existence.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“No escaping. I told you I'd never let you go.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“This isn't pure, patient, or kind. It's calamitous and cruel, powerful and all-consuming. Make no mistake about it's ferocity, Belladonna. It would have me not only sacrificing every other being for your pleasure, but also myself, and that is something I've never been willing to give someone.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Never forget that I am a monster, Belladonna. I am a poison that all of humanity must fear.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“I love to hurt you. Perhaps one day I'll choose to imprison and torture you so I can hear your screams day and night.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“I was fucked. Lock had clearly ruined me and I wasn't even pressed about it.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“I may have broken you, but know that you've broken me just the same.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Feel what it is to have the power to hold one's soul in your hand. And you know what? I think you'll like ripping it out.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Your name is fitting, Hemlock. You're fucking poison.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Love is so easily mistaken for hate. Such powerful emotions.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Let me free you of the constraints of virtue. Better yet, free yourself.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“If human nature allows for such egregious impulses, who are we to deny what it has designed, what it so desperately craves?”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Have you ever had a thought so dark you feared what would happen if anyone heard it?”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“Darling, my name is Hemlock. Do you think I was given it because my mother thought I would be good?”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock

“You surrendered yourself to me. Now be a good girl and draw his blood for me.”
― Madilyn DeRose, Hemlock