Lexi Ryan > Quotes

“I can't even tell someone to have a good day without sounding like I secretly wish they'd die.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“Where do you think legends begin, if not from truth?”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I am not a pretty thing to be manipulated. I am darkness.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“May you always have a star to wish on, Abriella, and a reason to believe.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“With a dreamy sigh, I prop my chin on my fists. “Who knew that one day I’d be on a date with the lead singer from a famous boy band?”
He scowls. “Infinite Gray was not a boy band.”
“Were there any girls in the band?”
“No.”
“That makes you a boy band.”
“It made us an all-male rock group.”
I bite back my smile. He’s so cute when he’s irritated. “Right, like ’N Sync.”
He winces. “Not like ’N Sync. Jesus, watch where you hurl those things. Words hurt, Maggie.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“No matter how hopeless I feel, there's always a little more hope inside me. No matter how faithless I think I am, there is always something to believe in.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.
I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.
Don’t be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.
I’ll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“Abriella, every star in that sky shines for you”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“If you shatter, I'll find you.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“I am a great thief. I can steal just about anything. But a faerie prince's heart? I wouldn't know where to start.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“None of us asks for the burdens we bear, but that doesn't make the way we handle them any less significant.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Twisted Bonds

“I'm not trying to change you, Maggie. I'm trying to love you.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“You're not the only one who's made mistakes. I have too. But I believe we're more than the sum of our mistakes. I didn't used to. I thought I was a piece of shit. I thought I was nothing.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“The thing about desperation is that it steals the right choice from our list of options.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“Someday," I say softly, "you'll tell me the whole story. I'll wait."
"When you know the whole story, you won't want me anymore. I'm that girl."
"Don't count on that."
When I lift my eyes to her face, she's watching me with something like wonder. "What?"
She shakes her head, "I can't figure you out."
"Good." I cup her face in my palms and trace her bottom lip with my thumb. "Then maybe you won't be able to figure out how to push me away.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“Why me, Asher?"
"Sweetheart, when you know the answer to that question, we won't be talking anymore."
"You'll be gone?"
"I'll be inside you.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“Don't be affraid to break, Maggie. Stop holding on to the ugliness just to stay whole.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“I am shadow and darkness and stronger than the girl he sacrificed for the crown.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“But your beauty? It's the kind that radiates from your heart, and it's so damn bright it shines beyond these walls you've created to protect yourself”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“Those of us who love the night revel in it because of how clearly it allows us to find even the smallest points of light. Whereas they deny that darkness exists, even while the sun they worship throws shadows in every corner.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Twisted Bonds

“What if no one can fix me?”
“You don’t need fixing.” He gives a sad smile and wipes a tear away with his thumb. “It’s like your mosaics. The beauty is already there, you just find it. Let go, sweetheart.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“Curses are made of secrets and sacrifice. We will suffer as long as she pays the price.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“Easy, Princess, focus on the magic. When we’re out of here, you can go back to imagining all the ways you want my hands on you.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“You're like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That's how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.”
― Lexi Ryan, Lost in Me

“You think I don't want to kiss you? Half the time I can't think of anything else.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“Come back and break me, don't let this go unspoken. I'm numb when I'm whole and you left me unbroken.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me

“You're no princess. You're my queen.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Twisted Bonds

“Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone”
― Lexi Ryan, Fall to You

“You were curled in the corner of the bed, completely absorbed in that book, as if it didn’t matter that you lived this brutal existence and had only a tiny room to call your own. It didn’t matter that you had to work so hard for everything. When you were reading, you were somewhere else. You were someone else.”
― Lexi Ryan, These Hollow Vows

“For a woman who claims to be an open book, you hide so much.” He runs his thumb down the side of my neck, over the hollow in my collarbone. “Next time you strip for me, you’re taking off more than your clothes.”
― Lexi Ryan, Unbreak Me