“I truly was Cinderella, only my prince threw away the glass slipper and stole me away before midnight struck. My prince was evil. My prince was the villain.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I not only stole your past. I’ve already stolen your future.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“You live in a fairytale, princess and I’m about to destroy it.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I inherited her.
I preyed on her.
I owned her life and had the piece of paper to prove it.
Nila Weaver.
Mine.
And my task…..
….
….
devour her.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“This wasn’t making love. This wasn’t even fucking. This was war. And hell it felt good.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“She had to learn that the day granted hope and happiness, but I stole it. She had to face that the night hid evil and darkness, but my soul was blacker.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I was a hunter. Skilled with both bow and arrow and gun. I stalked the weaker and slit their throats when they succumbed to my careful aim.
But sometimes I liked to... miss. I liked to give them a small window of safety, all while closing the noose when they didn't expect it.
I liked to play with my food.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“Life rewards those who deserve it.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“Empathy was the downfall of any human.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I hated being lied to.
I hated even more believing those lies until the truth decided to come for me.
Turned out, I was never an individual; I was a possession to trade.
I was never unique; someone had lived my life many times before, never free, never whole.
My life was never mine.
My destiny was already written.
My story began the night he came for me.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“The world was a dangerous place, but I was worse.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“As if my world was dark and Jethro was the sun bringing me nutrition I never knew I needed.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“Coldness etched his gaze.
Aloofness whispered from his posture.
Calculation radiated from his every pore.
I'd never been so intimidated or so intimately challenged.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I’m here to extract a debt. The reason for that debt will be revealed when I’m good and ready. The method of payment for that debt is entirely up to you.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“You naïve little girl. If I took you, you wouldn’t be adored or worshipped. You’d be used and fucked. I have no patience for sweet.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“Find an anchor. Hold on tight. Do this and you’ll be alright.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“It’s a sad day when I’m emotionally invested in a fantasy.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“You’re out of excuses, Ms. Weaver. You were the one who started this. You’re the one who rode my fucking finger as if you’d never come before.” His voice dropped to a dark whisper. “So shut up, wrap those little fingers around my cock and stroke me, otherwise I swear to God I’ll throw you on your hands and knees and fuck your tight little cunt right here.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“Beauty was the ultimate arsenal. Beauty was meant to deceive. It was meant to trick and beguile so their prey never saw death coming.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“The chase was the best part, Hunting was intoxicating. And knowing I had the power to snuff out Nila Weaver’s life the moment I caught her gave me a certain…thrill.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“We might live in a civilized world, but rules “We might live in a civilized world, but rules and laws didn’t apply to me. I was a rule-breaker, curse-maker, life-stealer.”and laws didn’t apply to me. I was a rule-breaker, curse-maker, life-stealer.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“His eyes flashed and the misconception that he didn’t know passion dissolved. He knew it. He wielded it. He hid beneath layers and layers of mystery I would never hope to unravel.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“This man was pure danger, and I’d never sampled anything but safety.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“True power. Limitless power—only graced a fair few. It gave those lucky few the ability—the nobility, to be courteous and polite. All while holding their fucking balls in their hands.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I didn’t care. I don’t care. But I did care. I’m so stupid!”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“He reeked of manipulation and control.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“There was a debt to be paid. And I was the method of extraction. Plain and simple. I’m a Hawk. She’s a Weaver. That was all I needed to know.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“Lonely. I hated that word more than any other in the dictionary.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“I came from rainbow fabric; I drank textile ink as mothers’ milk. I learned to sew before I could walk. I could never become a nun, purely because of the boring fashion choices.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“We were linked more than spiritually—but soul-glued and breath-bound.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Debt Inheritance
“The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator Fulbright)”
― Bill Clinton, quote from My Life
“Joe Lon and Willard slipped out of their shirts. Willard flipped over and walked around in the dirt on his hands. Joe Lon took the bottle of whiskey out of his back pocket, set it carefully on the step of the Winnebago, checking out Susan Gender's red pants again as he did. Then he went into a steady handstand and did six dips, his nose just short of the dirt each time he went down. They both came off their hands and looked at Duffy.
"I'm impressed," said Duffy, shortly. "What the hell are you, gymnasts?"
"Drunks," said Joe Lon picking up the bottle.”
― Harry Crews, quote from A Feast of Snakes
“Existují-li liberálové, kteří považují za slučitelné se svým liberalismem, aby se zasadili dokonce za zestátnění železnic, dolů a jiných podniků anebo za ochranná cla, poznáme snadno, že z liberalismu přetrvává pouze název.”
― Ludwig von Mises, quote from Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
“It is my growing conviction that my life belongs to others just as much as it belongs to myself and that what is experienced as most unique often proves to be most solidly embedded in the common condition of being human.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, quote from Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
“Just stories. You and me, everybody, we’re a set of stories, and what those stories are is what makes us what we are.”
― Charles de Lint, quote from The Very Best of Charles de Lint
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