Top 200 H.D. Carlton Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Oh!” Sibby shouts, causing me to jump again. “You should write a book about it. Your readers would swoon over the big, scary guy coming to your rescue and then murdering your abuser.”

— H.D. Carlton

52. “You know, we’re also different. I’ve always been running to something – always searching for something that I could never find. But I suspect you’re the opposite. You’re running from something.”

— H.D. Carlton

53. “Run little mouse.”

— H.D. Carlton

54. “I don’t like attachments, but I cling to those who offer something meaningless.”

— H.D. Carlton

55. “You’re supposed to say I smell like flowers.” “Baby, there are flowers out there that smell like straight ass. So sure, you smell like those flowers.”

— H.D. Carlton

56. “You’re searching for life inside that sunset, yet I seek death between your thighs,” he rasps, his deep voice husky with desire.”

— H.D. Carlton

57. “People often only care about life when it’s inside of a woman’s stomach but stop caring once that life is born. Makes me wonder if people choose this route because they couldn’t get the help they needed.”

— H.D. Carlton

58. “His eyes darken, and his grin slips. “You’ve always been an atheist to my word. You’re incapable of believing in something you can’t see and lack faith because you’re blind to what’s right in front of you. I’m yours to command – I always have been. You just need to see it to finally believe it.”

— H.D. Carlton

59. “I don’t want to feel anymore,” I choke out, barely getting the words out before a gut-wrenching sob bursts past my lips.”

— H.D. Carlton

60. “Sweetheart, you carry your baggage like it’s the only belongings you got.”

— H.D. Carlton

61. “UNKNOWN: You haunt me. It’s only fair I return the sentiment.”

— H.D. Carlton

62. “You sent my world crashing down around me just like this, remember? Setting off bombs and then taking Addie from me. How does it feel, Claire? To have come so close to succeeding, only for your soul to be ripped away instead?”

— H.D. Carlton

63. “I’ll have her because she’s the first thing that made me feel something good in so long, and I’ve become obsessed with keeping it. I don’t have very many something goods in my life, and I don’t care if it makes me selfish for wanting to hold on to it.”

— H.D. Carlton

64. “You’re a goddamn siren, and I’m the fool who would gladly drown just to get a taste of you.”

— H.D. Carlton

65. “I lose myself. My name. My identity. My soul. It’s been hurdled away into the vortex our bodies have created. Like being sucked into a wormhole and kicked out into a new universe.”

— H.D. Carlton

66. “You’ll always be safe with me, little mouse. Always.”

— H.D. Carlton

67. “At least you’ll end up marrying a rich man,” I comment. She pins me with a dry look. “Now I can never marry you. It’s my life’s purpose to disappoint her in every decision I make.” I arch a brow. “Don’t underestimate me, Addie. I’ll become a poor man for you.”

— H.D. Carlton

68. “You’re going to ruin me, too. But unfortunately for you, that’s where I feel most at home.”

— H.D. Carlton

69. “Here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to allow you the opportunity to run and hide. If I find you, then I will deliver your punishment. If I don’t, you go unpunished and I will leave.”

— H.D. Carlton

70. “We’re going to burn down the world together.”

— H.D. Carlton

71. “Instantly, her eyes widen into caramel marbles, and her face pales about five shades lighter. I’m ready to squirt some spray tan lotion on her if it means she doesn’t make it so damn obvious that she’s not happy to see me.”

— H.D. Carlton

72. “UNKNOWN: You didn’t like my flowers?”

— H.D. Carlton

73. “I love storms – I just don’t like to be in them. I’d prefer to cuddle up under the blankets with a mug of tea and a book while listening to the rain fall.”

— H.D. Carlton

74. “He looks at me like I’m insane. That hurts my feelings.”

— H.D. Carlton

75. “Sometimes it feels like if I tried to cut her out of me anyways, I wouldn’t survive it.”

— H.D. Carlton

76. “Being scared and weak aren’t synonymous. It takes strength to keep getting back up after constantly being knocked down.”

— H.D. Carlton

77. “They see me as a diamond because I have Zade’s love, but they fail to remember that’s what forged me into a stone so unbreakable.”

— H.D. Carlton

78. “It’s always my favorite part when they think they have a chance of escape. To see the hope slowly fade out of their eyes when they realize there’s no chance of them getting past my henchmen.”

— H.D. Carlton

79. “My redemption is your salvation.”

— H.D. Carlton

80. “Did you know that reclaiming something that was stolen from you can help with trauma?” he asks. “Yes,” I murmur. “And if something hurt you before, giving it a new meaning can help.”

— H.D. Carlton

81. “It’ll never hurt when you touch me, but it hurt that you were no longer safe.”

— H.D. Carlton

82. “His mouth skates over my lips once before I watch a trail of saliva drip from his mouth into mine. “Swallow your juices,” he rasps. And I do. My throat works as the unique taste blooms across my tongue. He growls deep in his chest before he crushes his lips to mine.”

— H.D. Carlton

83. “Hold on tight to that humor, baby girl. You’re going to need it for where you’re going.”

— H.D. Carlton

84. “I will always possess you, little mouse. So, know that you have all of my devotion to keeping you.”

— H.D. Carlton

85. “If worshiping you is what you ask, I’d be happy to spend the rest of my life on my knees,” I tell her, my voice dipped so low, it’s nearly unrecognizable.”

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86. “Social situations nearly send me into hibernation, but I’ve always been skilled at flirting. Too bad most times, I can’t stand to do it.”

— H.D. Carlton

87. “It feels like my soul is ripped to shreds in a matter of seconds. A scream tears from my throat, even though I can’t hear it. Not when different pieces of my being are scattered in hundreds of thousands of different dimensions. There’s no sense of time or space, just colors and a feeling of completion. Like I was put together wrong before, and now that I’ve shattered, those pieces were stitched back together the correct way.”

— H.D. Carlton

88. “She studies me closely, picking apart every detail that makes up my face. My hair has grown, and my beard has thickened, but I wonder if she can see someone different beyond my appearance. Can she see a man falling in love with a little thief? Can she see that I don’t want to but will submit to it anyway? Just as I’m submitting to her now.”

— H.D. Carlton

89. “These men may be skilled in hunting, but what they don’t know is that I’ve been hunted by a far scarier man. I was a mouse caught in a trap before, scared, and helpless as I was taken between the teeth of an apex predator. But I’m not their little mouse, and they are not Zade. And I will never succumb to them.”

— H.D. Carlton

90. “I became a doctor because I like taking care of people. But the hospitals never let me take care of my patients the way I wanted.”

— H.D. Carlton

91. “Keep it together, little mouse. You’ll survive this. You will.”

— H.D. Carlton

92. “For so long, I was convinced I’d have a similar demise at the hands of my own stalker. Instead, I gave in to his dark perusals, and found myself loving him instead.”

— H.D. Carlton

93. “I’m not crazy!” I screech. I take a deep, calming breath and arrange the smile back on my face. “I’m just passionate.”

— H.D. Carlton

94. “But my soul is already spoken for – already claimed by a wicked man with every intention to keep it to himself. And I suppose he’s given me his in return.”

— H.D. Carlton

95. “Some days I’m the ocean. Some days I’m the ship. Tonight, I’m the lighthouse: at the edge, alone, and burning. -Vasiliki.”

— H.D. Carlton

96. “Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.”

— H.D. Carlton

97. “Ti penso ogni ora, ogni minuto, ogni dannato secondo. Non so che fare.”

— H.D. Carlton

98. “Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible.”

— H.D. Carlton

99. “Ma solo quando sono pronto a venire con te. Annegheremo insieme, bella ladra.”

— H.D. Carlton

100. “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.”

— H.D. Carlton