Top 200 Emily McIntire Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “If she is a succubus, then seduce me. If she is my devil, then I will gladly burn.”

— Emily McIntire

152. “I’m going to love you. Because loving you hurts so much more.”

— Emily McIntire

153. “It would be such a shame to lose that inquisitive mind,” I murmur. “I don’t wish to stifle it. I wish to break it apart and see what other questions I can find.”

— Emily McIntire

154. “My chest pulls, insides reeling as I stare down at her, realizing that I’ve never held such beauty in my hands. And in this moment, I’m not sure how I’ll let her go.”

— Emily McIntire

155. “That’s what cancer does. It ravages you from the inside out without caring who you are. It doesn’t matter whether you keep the world in the palm of your hand or if you have more money than God. It just feeds on death. And death always wins, one way or another.”

— Emily McIntire

156. “You see... subduing a woman is all about control... A delicate weaving of power. A give-and-take, if you will. Supplying them with the absolute pleasure of your dominance.”

— Emily McIntire

157. “My brother asked if I was a man of faith. I’m a man of many things, but faith is something that is best suited when it’s placed within yourself instead of seeking for it in other people. Other people disappoint.”

— Emily McIntire

158. “We’re all by-products of evil, some of us born into it and others created from circumstance.”

— Emily McIntire

159. “We could go our entire lives without speaking, and still, I’d know you in the next one.”

— Emily McIntire

160. “Maybe I shouldn’t believe him. After all, it’s easy for someone’s words to be just that. Words.”

— Emily McIntire

161. “Sometimes the greatest love comes from the most unlikely of places.”

— Emily McIntire

162. “If you want to ensure someone’s loyalty, you have to make sure they understand why you deserve it. And I’ve made sure that people understand the end of a blade hurts worse when the person wielding it enjoys causing pain.”

— Emily McIntire

163. “I own his heart, his mind, and his soul. And he owns mine right back.”

— Emily McIntire

164. “Pathetic, Wendy.”

— Emily McIntire

165. “We are the forgotten. Even though we’re the ones who are left to struggle.”

— Emily McIntire

166. “You’re a man, honey. I’m afraid there’s nothing special about any of you.”

— Emily McIntire

167. “I’ve been here at some florist called A Rose by Any Other Name for the past hour, staring at thirteen different flowers that all look the same, smell the same, and make me want to kill myself the same.”

— Emily McIntire

168. “In a different life” – I bend until my mouth is centimeters from hers – “I would do anything to make you mine, and I’d bring you any person who’s wronged you and make them beg for death at your feet. All you’d have to do is say the word.”

— Emily McIntire

169. “If you want a god to worship, ma petite menteuse, no need to look so far.”

— Emily McIntire

170. “He already told you, didn’t he?” Wendy cocks her head. “He popped my cherry.” Gasps sound around the table, and I choke on the liquid of my drink, my hand shooting to my chest to stifle the cough. “Wendy,” Peter hisses.”

— Emily McIntire

171. “That’s what she is to me: a work of art.”

— Emily McIntire

172. “When do you want it?” “Yesterday.” I press into her. “Now.” She stumbles into the cab’s door. “Tomorrow.”

— Emily McIntire

173. “Her father has money, yet he doesn’t afford her a driver? Any protection? Sliding into my Audi, I pull onto the busy street to follow close behind and make sure she gets home safe.”

— Emily McIntire

174. “Figuring out who you are means knowing every part and accepting every part, no matter what other people may think.”

— Emily McIntire

175. “Now we get you cleaned up, I take you back out there, and I show you how good we can be in this life, not a different one.”

— Emily McIntire

176. “I’m not sure what loosens my tongue, and I don’t know if I even mean the things I say. All I know is that in this moment, it feels like I might die if I don’t say them.”

— Emily McIntire

177. “I would do anything for you. Burn this life down to the ground and build a whole new world if you demanded it.”

— Emily McIntire

178. “The mind is far too easy to manipulate, even by our own subconscious. Fact becomes fiction, or at the very least a warped version of the truth. And the past grows distorted and blurred.”

— Emily McIntire

179. “Tell me your name, piccola sirena.”

— Emily McIntire

180. “What is hate but obsession tinged with fear?”

— Emily McIntire

181. “But there’s beauty in pain, baby.” His hands tilt my face until our gazes lock. “Your strength is in learning how to breathe through it; how to keep living even when it feels like you want to die.”

— Emily McIntire

182. “I can take care of myself,” I say, the same way I always do. He reaches out to grip my chin, tilting my face up to meet his. “I know. But just because you can doesn’t mean you should have to.”

— Emily McIntire

183. “For the freaks. The misfits. The bullied. The loners. The insecure. The damaged. You are worthy. You are warriors.”

— Emily McIntire

184. “I’m not sure where we’re headed, but after what just happened, I think I’d follow her anywhere.”

— Emily McIntire

185. “I’ve known for a while now and just haven’t allowed myself to think about the fact that when it comes down to it, the things that used to be important to me pale in comparison to her.”

— Emily McIntire

186. “Watch and see who I become in spite of you.”

— Emily McIntire

187. “I hum, reaching into my pocket, pulling out the black velvet box and twirling it in my hand. “I don’t know, killer. I think I might surprise you, too.”

— Emily McIntire

188. “I wonder if she realizes she holds all the power here, that I would crawl on my knees to be wherever she is.”

— Emily McIntire

189. “Hook,” I whisper through the dark. “Wendy.” “I don’t want to die.” He sighs. “Go to sleep, darling. Your soul is safe tonight.” “Okay.”

— Emily McIntire

190. “That’s the thing about grief, I guess. It steals the air from your lungs just as you’ve finally figured out how to breathe.”

— Emily McIntire

191. “Suddenly I feel like I’m nothing more than that insecure, damaged ten-year-old I was when he first took me in – lonely and broken and looking for someone who was proud enough of me to actually love me out loud.”

— Emily McIntire

192. “My heart stutters, his phrase cementing what I’ve been theorizing for the past few minutes. She doesn’t know about her father. And that means she never betrayed me at all.”

— Emily McIntire

193. “There’s a monster in you, child. And God wants me to beat it out.”

— Emily McIntire

194. “When are you going to realize I see you? Always?”

— Emily McIntire

195. “I’ve never thought about the word much, but the guilt I feel for every single thing involving Eveline is a tornado, whirling quick and strong, destroying everything it touches. And then it compounds because I know, without a doubt, if I went back and had a chance to do it all over, I wouldn’t change a thing.”

— Emily McIntire

196. “If I’m here, it’s because you made a deal with the devil, and there’s nothing you can do to save yourself.”

— Emily McIntire

197. “I’m doing this for us,” he tells me. “So we can finish this and I can love you out loud. In this life.”

— Emily McIntire

198. “Parents’ words become their children’s inner voices.”

— Emily McIntire

199. “Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle.”

— Emily McIntire

200. “Heartbreak is easier to hide in the dark.”

— Emily McIntire