18 Quotes by Alexis Abbott

Sometimes, someone can enter your life and remind you just how much you’ve been missing out on. Bruno was mine once, and nothing in the world has ever compared to the thrill of belonging to him.

Princess, I know I don’t deserve you, but I want to. More than anything.

Why did my body have such a strange, visceral reaction to his presence? It felt almost like deja vu, like we have met before sometime, maybe once upon a dream. It’s like he’s just on the tip of my tongue, and I can’t help but feel like if maybe I had seen his face properly, I would know who he is.

You’re smarter than me, and stupider all at once.

With that out of the way I slip away, the world’s quietest yet least successful burglar, then get to work.

I’ve never been in trouble before. Never even been sent to the principal’s office. But now I’m in jail, being threatened with some half-baked vagrancy charge.

But if you eat with the pigs, Princess, you can’t be surprised when you get a bit dirty.

Before we can even make it all the way up the stairs, Bruno pushes me against the wall, leaning in close over me. His chest is heaving and I can tell that he’s working as hard as he can to control himself, to stay level-headed. It’s a thrill to think that he’s as intoxicated by me as I am by him.

I’m completely and utterly alone, and the sensation is at once comforting yet so alienating.