Top 100 Annika Martin Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

53. “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

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

— Annika Martin

55. “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

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

— Annika Martin

57. “Loyalty means everything to him.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

59. “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.”

— Annika Martin

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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.”

— Annika Martin

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

67. “All of these things are lies.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

69. “It’s as if we’re on some kind of nerdy outlaw date, picking out books together.”

— Annika Martin

70. “I don’t really want her to pretend. I like her how she is. Real.”

— Annika Martin

71. “Modifying your tools. That’s a pro thing to do.”

— Annika Martin

72. “I know what it’s like when you want something so wrong. When you crave it.”

— Annika Martin

73. “I’ve been protected practically to death.”

— Annika Martin

74. “It’s like with every passing mile, I am farther and farther away from safety – and farther from myself. From being human. I’m turning into this other type of being, one who jerks off criminals in crappy motel rooms. One who wants to be kissed in a getaway car.”

— Annika Martin

75. “I don’t deserve it, but I take it.”

— Annika Martin

76. “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

77. “Grief tastes like the ocean.”

— Annika Martin

78. “She’s spent her whole life teaching herself to obey.”

— Annika Martin

79. “A little hate, a little hell.”

— Annika Martin

80. “They didn’t take anything important, baby. They didn’t take what’s important.”

— Annika Martin

81. “Maybe I just don’t know how to feel okay. Maybe that’s what they took away from me.”

— Annika Martin

82. “It takes a lot to invite death instead of postponing it. Because that’s all I’m doing here, by obeying him. Postponing death.”

— Annika Martin

83. “Alone, the way I like it. The way I need it to be.”

— Annika Martin

84. “By focusing on the most peripheral details, you could leave the horror at the center to the reader’s imagination.”

— Annika Martin

85. “Clinging to your killer, that’s a powerful and horrible kind of intimacy.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

87. “It was trapped, and all it could find was the sides of the box. It didn’t know which way to grow. All it knew was the sides of the box.”

— Annika Martin

88. “Any dress that makes you choose between breathing and eating isn’t worth wearing.”

— Annika Martin

89. “This is how he sees himself. As something to be endured. Inhuman. Unlovable.”

— Annika Martin

90. “Not that I plan on strapping on a necktie anytime soon – or ever – but maybe I don’t need to go killing everyone I hate. Baby steps.”

— Annika Martin

91. “I do what I promised I never would: I let her go.”

— Annika Martin

92. “It’s not what I want. It’s what she needs.”

— Annika Martin

93. “She’s the rain, soothing the fire in me, washing the rage.”

— Annika Martin

94. “Books were not quite an escape for me. And they were never my friends. They were so much more than that – utilitarian and unbreakable. They were my armor, my wall against the world.”

— Annika Martin

95. “When you’re faced with death, dignity doesn’t mean much.”

— Annika Martin

96. “If someone’ll take a small bribe, they’ll take a bigger one.”

— Annika Martin

97. “Every house I’ve ever robbed, every establishment, it’s the same story – you identify the first line of defense and take it away. That’s how you get control.”

— Annika Martin

98. “I used to think of intimacy as chocolates and roses and sweet whispered words. But it can be blood and violence and darkness, too. That’s something they don’t teach you in school.”

— Annika Martin

99. “Her gaze finds mine, and something flares in me. Because I would catch her. And the hottest thing is that I think she knows it. Maybe nobody has ever caught her, but I would. I would catch her. I would keep her. Make her mine.”

— Annika Martin

100. “I know what to do with the fist and the knife. I know what to do with pain and hate. I know what to do with a woman, how to run the tender, caring act just long enough to get my rocks off. I don’t know what to do with Ms. Winslow.”

— Annika Martin