“(Carter): "I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place."
(Emma): "You did all that for me?"
(Carter): "I would declare war for you.”
“You're mine, Emma. You always have been. I won't let you go.”
“You did all of that for me?
I would declare war for you”
“You don't trust anyone, no one except Carter. Go to Carter. He'll take care of everything. He'll take care of you, Ems. I promise.”
“This, This is what I wanted that night. I couldn't contain myself and I had to taste you, but tonight is the night I really have you. You're mine, Emma. You always have been.”
“I was going to die. It was a matter of time.”
“No matter what path Carter would take us, I’d go with him.”
“I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place.”
“I knew it in my gut, like an anchor thrown into the ocean. The deeper it sunk, the more I knew. I was in love”
“Shit. He was perfect. And he was a killer.”
“I saved her life!” Now I needed someone to save mine.”
“I’ve been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place.” What?”
“You did all of that for me?” “I would declare war for you.” He”
“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
“In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.”
“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescence, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.”
“We depend on neither man nor beast to get us where we need to go. If you rely on your own two good legs, then they won’t let you down.”
“All it had cost me was everything”
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