Top 100 Annika Martin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s okay to feel like that. It’s not your fault.”

— Annika Martin

2. “Pain is a funny thing. We fight so hard to avoid it, almost more than death. But it’s the only thing that binds us. Going through pain together and coming out on the other side is the only form of friendship I’ve ever known.”

— Annika Martin

3. “I lie there, naked beneath him. I want him to touch my naked skin, but not because he’s dirty or he’ll ruin me. Because I love everything about him. I trust him.”

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4. “I’m not angry at you. I’m angry at the world. You haven’t figured that out yet.”

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5. “Sometimes when you’re made of ice, fire is all you feel.”

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6. “It’s a position of supplication, but one of strength.”

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7. “She’s the rivet, taking away the darkness. But without the darkness, there’s nothing left inside me. I’m hollow.”

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8. “It’s the quiet ones you had to worry about. They were liable to swallow a razor blade when you weren’t looking.”

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9. “She’s mine to do what I want with, but that also means she’s mine to care for, to protect.”

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10. “But the truth is a double-edged sword.”

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11. “I know how it feels when your stomach hurts like it’s trying to eat itself. I know what it’s like to fight with a grown-up and lose.”

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12. “She has a way of making these things bearable.”

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13. “Her smile is a little wicked. Full of fire. My favorite kind of smile on her.”

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14. “There’s a natural order to people: the strong and the weak. I’ve been the weaker one before. I know how much it hurts. But pain only makes you harder. Stronger.”

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15. “My heart swells with so much love, I don’t think my body can contain it.”

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16. “It’s as if I’m yelling at thunder.”

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17. “The most boring bit of honesty is worth ten thousand times as much as the most glittering piece of fiction in this class.”

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18. “Is this what it feels like to be a gentleman? To take care of a young lady, to have her look at me with trust shining in her eyes.”

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19. “Their cute little faces are exactly about survival. Baby animals all have large eyes and big foreheads because adult mammals are hardwired to consider it cute and feed them. It’s pure, vicious survival. Survival of the fittest. Practically mercenary.” “Oh my god, are you ruining baby goat videos for me?”

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20. “It’s part of a vow we made up: One blade to protect my brothers, one blade for vengeance.”

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21. “There was a time when it seemed as sure as the sunrise that he’d come for me, but I guess even the sunrise has to stop sometime.”

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22. “She’s back, and I’m the devil, breathing in her fire, consuming little bits of her soul.”

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23. “I can’t tell him no. Some people have a relationship that’s sunshine and roses. Ours is darkness and vengeance.”

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24. “It doesn’t make any sense, but that’s what happens when you’re a virgin. Even your fantasies are a little confused.”

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25. “I’m growing inside this box, growing in this completely wrong shape plants aren’t supposed to be in, because I can’t see the sun. It’s like I don’t know anything of what I want. I think I would know what I wanted if I was out of the box.”

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26. “Stockholm Syndrome. Temporary insanity.”

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27. “I go crazy, hitting and punching like a maniac. I think I’m hurting myself more than him. Everything hurts, but I can’t stop. Stopping means I’m okay with what happened, that I enjoyed it.”

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28. “I like her this way, her pretty pale dress all smeared with dirt and blood.”

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29. “We’re together. I’m his.” I don’t realize the truth of it until I actually say it aloud. I’m his. And that makes him mine too, and it’s messed up and beautiful. “I’m his and he’s mine.”

— Annika Martin

30. “When people come at you, you have to stand up for yourself. Nobody will fight for you quite like you will fight for you.”

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31. “I’ll take any morsel of sympathy I can get.”

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32. “Maybe it’s myself I’m losing. Maybe it’s my sanity. I just know I have to get away.”

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33. “Loyalty means everything to him.”

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34. “You always hang on to what you can.”

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35. “My dad always says you can’t let them smell blood.”

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36. “Nowhere. Get in a car and drive forever. Or at least, you know, until you’re somewhere so far away that you’re just new. A new person with a new life.”

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37. “Maybe we’re something that doesn’t have a name.”

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38. “Tell him I know what’s inside of him now. Tell him he’s a good man,” I whisper. “Those monsters never touched what was important in him.”

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39. “Those men may seem resistant to what you do. But a few of them need desperately to speak, to tell their stories. Some people need to tell their stories in order to be healed, to be whole, and you can give them a space in which to do that.”

— Annika Martin

40. “You’re mine,” he says suddenly. A feral man’s way of saying I love you.”

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41. “You need to reach the hell down inside yourself and find that little corner in there where you know things are okay. That part of you nobody can take away.”

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42. “Because love doesn’t have to be complicated and hard. It doesn’t have to hurt. This feeling inside me, something large and expanding, a lightness – it’s love. As ordinary as a speck of dirt. As magical as moondust.”

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43. “All I can do is go to him and put my hands on him. To speak to him in some twisted language of love that only we two speak, where we hurt each other just to soothe the wounds that follow.”

— Annika Martin

44. “They say there are two types of fear – the kind that has you running far, far away, and the kind that shakes you so deeply that you can’t look away.”

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45. “Justice instead of vengeance. Preventing future crimes instead of retaliating.”

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46. “But that’s life – it’ll drag you down no matter how sweet and innocent you start out.”

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47. “All of these things are lies.”

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48. “Because guidelines are made to broken. Like rules. Like people.”

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49. “You never let them take everything. Some people don’t get that.”

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50. “Don’t take the first word that comes to your mind. I want you to really think into it, feel it. The right word is so important, you guys.”

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