Top 200 H.D. Carlton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I may own every breath in your body, but make no mistake, Adeline, you own mine, too. I am yours to command. To bend and break. To mold and manipulate.”

— H.D. Carlton

2. “Scars only serve as reminders of what we’ve survived, not what killed us.”

— H.D. Carlton

3. “It hurts like hell, but pain will always come before beauty. How else would we appreciate it?”

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4. “Show me where you hurt so I know where to love you most.”

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5. “You can’t escape me, little mouse. I will always find you.”

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6. “Yet, in the midst of the chaos, I find peace, as if I’m standing in the eye of a hurricane. I just hate the calm before the storm.”

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7. “You will never hear me call myself a good man. Or kind. Or even honorable. There is very little left of that in me, and the truth is that it was never really there to begin with. I was born with a blackened soul and good intentions. And there is a difference between those who are needlessly evil and those who do bad things hoping that something good will come out of it. I’ll let you decide for yourself which one I am.”

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8. “Happiness is fleeting. All that matters is that they’re living their life the way they want to.”

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9. “Hot breath fans across my ear as he whispers, “Not only am I scary, baby, but I’m really, really angry. And when I’m angry, I’ll make them pray for Hell.”

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10. “I need therapy.”

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11. “What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you – you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.”

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12. “But you can’t silence heartbreak. It’s loud and painful. Even after you grieve and heal, it lingers in the background, sliding back into your life just when you think you’ve overcome it.”

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13. “Eyes on me, little mouse.”

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14. “Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.” “Yours. Don’t get ahead of yourself. You’ll be expected to beg.” There’s no stopping the savage grin from gracing my lips. “I love to beg.”

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15. “Will you be my last meal, baby?”

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16. “Run, if I catch you, I f-k you.”

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17. “Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.”

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18. “Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.”

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19. “Love is an enigma, and it’s redefined every time someone says it.”

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20. “You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.”

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21. “I’ve followed you through lifetimes, Adeline. My soul needs you so badly that I’ve become a shadow, destined to hunt you for eternity.”

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22. “Every day, we come a little closer to death – our bodies deteriorating just a little more. And if this is what dying feels like, then I never want to feel anything else.”

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23. “I don’t care if I need to set this world on fire until there’s no one left but you and me. The world will burn around us, and I’ll gladly live in chaos with you as long as the only person that is a danger to you is me.”

— H.D. Carlton

24. “Zade is quiet for a beat. “Happiness is fleeting. All that matters is that they’re living their life the way they want to.” “You believe that?” I ask, facing him. “That happiness is fleeting?” He shrugs, tossing the last bite of his cone into his mouth, and chews as he contemplates something. “Absolutely,” he says finally. “It’s not something solid you can hold on to. It’s vapor in the wind, and all you can do is inhale it when it’s near and hope it comes around again when it blows away.”

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25. “One cannot wield power if one does not have control over it.”

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26. “Our mouths are touching the same spot,” she says shakily. “Does that count as kissing?” “You tell me, little mouse. When I make you cry out for God, does that count as praying?”

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27. “Someday soon, little mouse, you will not be able to see anything else. I will be the only villain in your story, and the only one who has the power to make you scream.”

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28. “UNKNOWN: You haunt me. It’s only fair I return the sentiment. I swallow, nervous energy coursing through me as I decide how to respond. UNKNOWN: You’re so beautiful when you’re scared.”

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29. “Tell me, baby. What does drowning sound like?” “Like the first breath of air after being trapped underwater. It’s a sound of both pain and relief. Of desperation and desire. When you’ve gone so long without oxygen, that first breath is the only thing that makes sense, and your body takes it in without permission.”

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30. “I swear to everything that is holy, I will destroy you if you touched my girl.”

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31. “I’m coming home with my little mouse tonight. And then? We’re going to burn down the world together.”

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32. “You are a thief, baby. You stole my name, and now you’ve taken my heart, too. Demand anything else from me, and I’ll give it to you.”

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33. “This isn’t a climb to heaven. It’s a fall from grace.”

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34. “The outsiders – people that think they’re normal – they don’t understand people like us. We see the world for what it is. This Earth is layered, just like an onion, and we’re only living in one of those layers.”

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35. “There’s a place in the ocean, so deep, where not a single point of light penetrates through it. And for so long, I’ve been trapped there, unable to breathe. When I met you, you lifted me out of that darkness, and it was the first time I came up for air. You’ve become my oxygen, bella ladra, and I can no longer breathe without you.”

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36. “What did I tell you, little mouse? That you couldn’t escape me. If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.”

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37. “And I will gladly cross every single line if it means making this girl mine. If it means forcing her to be mine.”

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38. “Your mom doesn’t hate you, Addie. She hates herself. And she doesn’t resent you because you’re not living the life she wanted for herself, she resents you because you were living the life you wanted, and she wasn’t.”

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39. “His eyes are tracing my curves like they’re scripture, and he’s a sinner that is searching for proof of a God that he no longer can hear.”

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40. “A dark god that embodies destruction and death, yet I’ve never felt more in love.”

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41. “She holds on to me like she’s falling, but I have no interest in catching her. I will always fall with her, chasing after her even in death.”

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42. “I will carve a garden of scars into your flesh, little mouse. Only my pain will bring them to life.” I tip my head back, groaning from the sharp bite of his knife. “They’ll only ever grow beneath my touch.”

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43. “What he doesn’t know is that the minute I properly introduce myself to Adeline Reilly, she won’t be able to think of anyone else. I will devour her from the inside out, until every intake of breath will only stoke the inferno I’ve created inside her. Like oxygen feeding a fire, I will consume every inch of her sweet little body until she will think of nothing else but how to get me deeper inside of her.”

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44. “One day, you will realize that you are not trapped in a prison,” he murmurs roughly. “You are in my church where I am your God, and you are my equal. I’m not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary.”

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45. “Cat got your tongue, little mouse?”

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46. “You’re not normal?” I ask, my curiosity piquing. “The interesting people never are, demon slayer.”

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47. “It’s not something solid you can hold on to. It’s vapor in the wind, and all you can do is inhale it when it’s near and hope it comes around again when it blows away.”

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48. “That man ate the soul out of my body, and I don’t think I’ve gotten it back yet.”

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49. “When you’re trapped and terrified, hope is the first thing you lose.”

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50. “I feel so much power in my fingertips, I can’t imagine how much power I’d have if I loved him.”

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