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“There is no part of you I don’t love, fly too close to the sun. fall from grace. Drowning under the sea. Every stage, every mood, anything you’ve ever done…I love you still.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book II

“Anger over fear, because one makes you move and the other can freeze you.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“I love you, Sid,” I whisper against her ear, “and I don’t need to hear it back. But I need you to know it. I might not be very good at it, but I love you, and I think I always have.”
― K.V. Rose, Pray for Scars

“when you’re raised with monsters, those with the dullest teeth seem the most angelic.”
― K.V. Rose, The Cruelest Chaos

“She left me. She fucking left me.”
― K.V. Rose, Boy of Ruin

“He’s happy. I was born sad.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“No matter how horrible we are, no matter what dirty deeds we hide in our skin, everyone has to sleep. And sometimes even monsters sleep like babies.”
― K.V. Rose, Let Me

“Haunted memories, waking up in a cold sweat because they infected your dreams, remembering you have no future because you live with a brain which hates you, imagining someone you love walking out, over and over and over… Therapists. Medications. Psychiatrists. Studies. Blood on your hands. No one wants that. No one wants the reality of mental illness.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“I know you’re a filthy little…”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Mental illness is symptoms and impaired decisions and blackouts and snap reactions, but sometimes, it’s silence. Sometimes, there are no words to describe the darkest, bleakest feelings. The ones that eat you alive, inside your head. Those are hushed whispers, thoughts unvoiced. The scary things that make you feel as if you’re losing your humanity. No one wants to admit to spiraling. When anyone asks you how you are, you’re fine. Because how can you say you hate yourself out loud? How can you say something isn’t right inside a place no one can see?”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book II

“take her to the gym and we can start working on that business plan of ours.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“When he turns back to wave at me, my stomach flutters as he runs back over, kisses me again, slinging an arm around my neck.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“Yeah. Everyone wants to pretend they’re sympathetic to people with mental illnesses until they start showing signs of being mentally fucking ill.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“Why does everything always feel so heavy between us?” It takes me by surprise, her question. But it gets under my skin, too, because there’s nothing about it that isn’t true. “Because it’s the only way we can feel,” I answer her, my nails biting into her palm. “Deeply, or not at all.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“But she should know people don’t do what you want just because you beg them.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“The people with the biggest hearts always have the thickest armor.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I don’t expect to see her here, and when I do, it takes all of the self-control I possess not to shove her up against the wall and start screaming in her face. Not to take that fucking black silk top and rip it to shreds, yank her long hair back and ask her what the fuck she thinks she’s doing.”
― K.V. Rose, Let Me

“Zara: You need a shoulder to cry on, Eli? Find someone else.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“That’s why girls like assholes, I think to myself. There’s something appealing about being with a man who does not give a single fuck about anything. Anything but you. But what about when he ruins you? What then?”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“The idea of him being with me past college, past this week even, is unfathomable. And I don’t like it. People always leave.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“You’re not weird, princess,” Alex says against my skin.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“We skipped the small talk because two souls know when they’re conceived to collide. They don’t need an introduction. They just fucking ruin each other without a hello.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“but don’t you dare let those things make you bitter. Don’t you dare allow the world’s hurt to make you into someone that hurts other people.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I’m going to fucking kill you, and all of your friends.” I smile at her. “Please do.” I run a hand through my hair as she stares at me, impassive. “Please, for the love of Satan, put me out of my fucking misery.”
― K.V. Rose, Pray for Scars

“I know what it’s like to feel alone even when you’re touching someone else. It’s like holding a ghost.”
― K.V. Rose, Boy of Ruin

“But you are so beautiful, too. So fucking beautiful, inside and out. And you’re funny and kind and your recklessness makes you interesting. And you deserve love,”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“It makes the thought of the future hurt that much more. I think I’d let him get away with anything at all, stabbing me over and over and over, if only he would beg me to come back, over and over again, just like this. The torture kind of makes life worth living. The power makes me feel loved.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“No one wants to be the recipient of one of those disorders with no cure, no treatment, no understanding.”
― K.V. Rose, Ominous: Book I

“When the alarm on my phone goes off, my first instinct is to throw it across the fucking room. So, I do.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy

“I think about the therapist I went to when I was five. They let me play with blocks and assured me that my parents’ divorce wasn’t my fault. A lot of good that did for the empty hole in my chest that my father had left.”
― K.V. Rose, Ecstasy