Top 100 Annika Martin Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I know that when you tell a fake story about yourself, it’s because you’re protecting the real story.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

3. “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

4. “Because I’m so tired. Because I’m trying so hard.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

10. “Two long years without a woman’s touch. I’d be mad with lust for any woman.”

— Annika Martin

11. “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?”

— Annika Martin

12. “Some wounds can never be healed. Not ever.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

14. “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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

16. “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.”

— Annika Martin

17. “People like her want to see the best in people like me, and she’ll probably want to think the best as time goes on, but it’s important that she doesn’t think the best of me or hope for me to be something different. Misery is wanting what you don’t have. Misery is wanting what a rat has, or really, anything different.”

— Annika Martin

18. “He won’t ever let me go – not ever.”

— Annika Martin

19. “Stockholm Syndrome. Temporary insanity.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

21. “My words are potent. Powerful. I can use the truth as a weapon, just like he did.”

— Annika Martin

22. “He’s a horrible human being, but he’s still a human being. That means something to me. It has to mean something, or I’m a horrible human being too.”

— Annika Martin

23. “My mind understands him, why he is the way he is. But it’s my heart that aches for him, wanting whatever shards of love he can give me, jagged, even knowing I’ll get cut in the process.”

— Annika Martin

24. “This is my punishment. That’s all I can think about. Her soft flesh sucking me in. Her moans filling the air like goddamn music. I took what wasn’t mine, and this is my punishment: watching her get destroyed.”

— Annika Martin

25. “No, I don’t want to be a better choice than prison. We can find a way to get you out, baby – I’ll go down for Dorman before I let you serve. What I’m asking is, do you want to come with me? Be with me? Like we were.” “Yes,” she says, sounding happy, almost laughing. “Yes!”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

29. “Loyalty means everything to him.”

— 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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

33. “Everybody would say we’re wrong in everything we’re doing. But we don’t feel wrong to me.”

— Annika Martin

34. “You only had to get those details just right, and the reader fills it in for you. It’s the best kind of lie to tell. One that’s true. Nothing’s quite as effective as truth, is it?”

— Annika Martin

35. “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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

38. “I can be the psycho they need me to be.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

40. “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.”

— Annika Martin

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.”

— Annika Martin

42. “But here’s the thing about an egg: when you break it, you get everything you want, but then it’s not smooth or perfect anymore. It’s just this dead thing.”

— Annika Martin

43. “Grief tastes like the ocean.”

— 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.”

— Annika Martin

45. “Is that what love means to him? Suffering.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

47. “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.”

— Annika Martin

48. “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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin