Top 100 Annika Martin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s as if we’re on some kind of nerdy outlaw date, picking out books together.”

— Annika Martin

52. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

59. “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

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

— Annika Martin

61. “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

62. “Grief tastes like the ocean.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

68. “A little hate, a little hell.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

70. “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

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

— Annika Martin

72. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

75. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

79. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

82. “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

83. “There should be some smooth and nice things left in this world.”

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

87. “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

88. “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

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

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

— Annika Martin

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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