“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
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“And even then, she hadn’t wanted to die. She’d just wanted it to be over. To be free of it all. For the pain and guilt to be over. And the feeling of being trapped. She might have been able to stand all the rest of it, but not the sense of being caught.”
― quote from Nemesis Games
“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”
― David Byrne, quote from How Music Works
“Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.”
― Rebecca Solnit, quote from Men Explain Things to Me
“when someone is going out of their way to make you miserable, recognize that it’s the enemy using that person to discourage you.”
― Michelle Stimpson, quote from Boaz Brown
“After that, Lily was recuperating and then
dealing with significant financial hardships. The
birth was described to me by Lily and also by
her obstetrician, who I spoke to myself yesterday.
The doctor, in his own words, remembers what
he describes as that ‘hideous day’ like it was yesterday.
The labour, intense and excruciating, lasted
for days. In the end, in extreme distress at
the length of the labour, the baby nearly died.
Lily did die. She was flatline for two minutes and
thirty-eight –”
Alistair didn’t get the opportunity to finish his
grand statement because Nate surged out of his
chair so fast, it flew on its wheels and shot across
the room, slamming into the wall.
“Mr. McAllister…” Alistair said warningly
but Nate was coming swiftly around the table,
coming at her.
At this sight, Lily, too, jumped out of her chair
in a panic, her numbness not that complete, and
backed away in self-defence as Nate came at her,
came at her with purposeful, long strides. She
backed up jerkily, one hand behind her, one hand
in front, retreating until she hit the wall. Before
she knew what he was about, his hard chest came
up against her hand, pushing it back and his body
pressed against hers.
Terrified and confused at this sudden change,
she looked to the right and to the left, anywhere
for escape, anywhere but at Nate.
And to her shock, his hands caught her face,
resting one on either side, gently trying to force
her to look into his impossibly dark eyes.
“I didn’t know,” he whispered and the absolute
ache dripping from his first words said to her
since she found out he was alive cut through her
thin shield of numbness like a razor.
She attempted to pull her face free but his
hands tightened.
“Lily, I didn’t know,” he repeated, and she
caught his eyes and they were glittering dark with
something that she couldn’t read, something
hideously painful and she had to get away from
it. Was desperate to get away from it. She needed
to flee.
She tried to look over his shoulder but he was
too tall, too close. Things were happening in the
room, there was urgent talk, maybe even a tussle.
But all she could see was Nate.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Three Wishes
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