Crow Quotes

“This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I never realized how empty my life had really become until I had him in it. He did that to me. He said I wrecked him, but he completely destroyed me. Everything was fine when I was alone. When I didn’t have to feel or think or care about someone else. Sure I was sad and broken, but I was okay. Now, I’m anything but.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Nobody has ever looked at me the way he’s looking at me at this moment. Like I’m his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he’d break both their legs and an arm for good measure.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“You can’t change a leopard’s spots. Broken people can only fix themselves.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Come here." He gestures towards the door.
Would you get a load of this character?
Come here, he says, like I'll just do it.
I do.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“If an act of evil is to stain my soul, it will be for one of my own.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I thought I told you I don’t play by the rules,” I argue. “Ye’re mistaken,” he says. “Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You’ll be playing by all my rules.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Fancy that, do ye?” “Va va voom,” I say in answer. “Any chance you’ll let me drive?” He spins the keys around his fingers. “Not even if I was dying.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“The waiter brings our food and we eat in silence. It’s all so very… date like. If I were on a date with a serial killer who was sizing me up like his prey, but whatever.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Mine?” he laughs cruelly as he reaches for the hem of my dress and rips it with his bare hands. “I don’t believe I’ve had the pleasure yet.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Family, loyalty, honor, and blood. Tis the only thing that’s true.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I thought I told you I don’t play by the rules,” I argue.
“Ye’re mistaken,” he says. “Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You’ll be playing by all my rules.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I don’t have time for sweet tonight.” He slides his thick cock between my thighs. “I’m going to fuck ye hard and fast and stuff ye full of my come before I have to leave.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I’m so tired of being strong. So tired of trying to do everything myself. Is it wrong to let him comfort me? To be relieved in the false sense of security I find here. These arms will shelter me and keep me safe. Something I thought I would never want now means the world to me. Even if it is all one giant lie.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“He makes me feel like a princess and a dirty little slut.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Ye don’t get out of my bed the minute I blow my load into you,” he says.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I’m so tired of being strong. So tired of trying to do everything myself.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“He told me not to cry, so I didn’t. He told me not to care about anyone, so I didn’t. I squashed it all down and locked it up deep inside of me. Truthfully, I feel too much. But you wouldn’t know that about me. Nobody does.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“I wanted to bend ye over the table and eat your hot little cunt before the whole lot of them,” he says.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Ye're about as Irish as a plastic paddy”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“touches me,”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest, darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Truthfully, I feel too much. But you wouldn’t know that about me. Nobody does. Because I’m always in control.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Jaysus, woman,” he sighs. “Ye clean up your fecking mouth before I do it for you. You want to work for me ye better start acting like a lady.”
“I am a goddamn lady.” I grin.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Butterfly.” His breath skates over my ear in a threatening whisper.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“Emotions are a luxury Wilder’s can’t afford.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“MACKENZIE”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“When I filed a missing person’s report, they barely even glanced at the details.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

“They don’t give two shits about some missing woman with a questionable reputation. Just like thousands of others in this country, she’s been sucked into a black hole, never to be seen or heard from again.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow