Top 100 Annika Martin Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “There should be some smooth and nice things left in this world.”

— Annika Martin

52. “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

53. “Most people think they’ll do anything to escape, but they won’t.”

— Annika Martin

54. “There’s a type of bird that lays its eggs in other birds’ nests. Sometimes I feel like I ended up in the wrong nest like that.”

— Annika Martin

55. “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

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

— Annika Martin

57. “Don’t be stupid. You never want to be dead instead of living.”

— Annika Martin

58. “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

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

— Annika Martin

60. “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.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

62. “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

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

— Annika Martin

64. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

76. “A little hate, a little hell.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

78. “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

79. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

86. “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

87. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

92. “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

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

— Annika Martin

94. “All of these things are lies.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

96. “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

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

— Annika Martin

98. “You think it’s different because you don’t keep her chained in a basement?” “It’s different.”

— Annika Martin

99. “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

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

— Annika Martin