Top 200 H.D. Carlton Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I feel everything and nothing at all, and I’ve never been more dangerous.”

— H.D. Carlton

152. “Can you, like, not make me cry right now, please? I’m trying to look like a badass.”

— H.D. Carlton

153. “I want to claw out of my own skin, if only it means Addie will be waiting for me on the other side.”

— H.D. Carlton

154. “A beast and a god twisted together, forming something wholly unnatural. And I realize, I never needed to be afraid of his touch. It was men that defiled me, and Zade was never a man.”

— H.D. Carlton

155. “The embarrassment nearly overrides the fear. But neither of them is more potent than the pleasure my body is being forced to succumb to.”

— H.D. Carlton

156. “I’m playing with fire. The more I provoke him, the more likely he is to come after me. But I can’t stop myself. I can’t stop the sharp thrill that I get every time I push back.”

— H.D. Carlton

157. “What the hell? Is this him?” My smirk widens, and I turn to look at Addie. “Have you been gossiping about me, little mouse? Did you tell her how big my cock is?” Addie’s eyes pop comically. Her hand curls and swings it right into my chest. It feels like she just threw a slice of bread at me.”

— H.D. Carlton

158. “Does anything about the way I love you feel tragic?” I ask, brushing my lips across her jaw. “Yes,” she whimpers. “But only because one day it will end.”

— H.D. Carlton

159. “I don’t like being in unfamiliar places with strangers. Like I could be walking into a house that I’ll never come back out of. It.”

— H.D. Carlton

160. “You will be mine until you draw your last breath, Sawyer. And it will be my hand holding you beneath the surface, introducing you to death.”

— H.D. Carlton

161. “I arch a brow, unimpressed with how low she has to bounce. Addie would never have that issue.”

— H.D. Carlton

162. “The intensity in his eyes holds me in place as he walks to stand beside me, his chest brushing against my arm. He smells like leather and smoke. It’s intoxicating. He’s intoxicating.”

— H.D. Carlton

163. “I’ll gladly sacrifice my name on her tongue if it means climbing up to heaven with her.”

— H.D. Carlton

164. “Show me how far you get before you realize you’re only running from yourself.”

— H.D. Carlton

165. “His voice is full of dark promises and dangerous beginnings.”

— H.D. Carlton

166. “He made me feel so damn loved and treasured. Just like a diamond.”

— H.D. Carlton

167. “This happiness may be fleeting, but I’ve never been surer that it’ll be back.”

— H.D. Carlton

168. “The thought of Zade cheating is laughable, though. That will always be one thing I’d never have to concern myself with.”

— H.D. Carlton

169. “When have we ever been able to let go of the things that hurt us most?”

— H.D. Carlton

170. “There’s no redemption for people like Gary. They never learn their lesson. They get a slap on the wrist and then go on with their lives, torturing women for the sake of inflating their self-worth. Truth is, they don’t have any worth, and they know that.”

— H.D. Carlton

171. “I love you. And you’ve taken everything from me.”

— H.D. Carlton

172. “There will never be an end to me and you.”

— H.D. Carlton

173. “Men like this, who have lived their lives so selfishly and with no regard for others’ lives, are always the most desperate to live forever. But they never understood that’s what makes them so goddamn weak. It’s the people who have no regard for their own life – people like me. We are the ones that are the deadliest. What’s stopping me from taking people down with me when I die? Nothing. Not a goddamn thing.”

— H.D. Carlton

174. “The sun will explode, and the earth will deteriorate before a perfect world ever exists. Humans will kill themselves off before that can happen.”

— H.D. Carlton

175. “I am drowning. And the scariest part – I don’t feel the need to come up for air.”

— H.D. Carlton

176. “You don’t want to get in a swordfight with me, Patrick. I promise I’ll win,” I deadpan, glancing down between his legs.”

— H.D. Carlton

177. “Being consumed by him feels like drowning in water with a live wire in it. Electric currents ravish your body until you’re overcome with it. No oxygen. No thought. No control. And when it’s over, he yanks you out of the water. The electricity still dancing across your skin, currents sparking between your bodies, but you can see and think clearly again. All you can feel is like you’ve been ripped to shreds.”

— H.D. Carlton

178. “It doesn’t matter if he’s dead or alive, he’ll always haunt me,” I rasp, sadness ringing from the truth. “Then I will haunt you worse.”

— H.D. Carlton

179. “It’s an old, buttery-yellow Volkswagen – the ones you’d see hippies back in the 70s driving around.”

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180. “Oh God,” I cry, trying to keep my voice down but failing miserably. “Can you see him, baby? Ask him for forgiveness.” “Why?” I pant, another high-pitched moan nearly swallowing the word. “Because you worship me now.”

— H.D. Carlton

181. “If Addie and I have a daughter, I hope she has some goddamn sense and prefers black.”

— H.D. Carlton

182. “And like Medusa, because I’m wrongly being punished, I want to punish everyone else in retaliation.”

— H.D. Carlton

183. “Is it too late to add you to my list of things that make me happy? Doesn’t matter, I’m adding you to it anyway.”

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184. “I came awfully close to walking in here and shooting them all dead, but then I’d have to kill all their families too, and my girl doesn’t like it when I do that.”

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185. “I believe that you’ll protect me from Mark, but who’s going to protect me from you?”

— H.D. Carlton

186. “I’m pretty sure women can live just fine without them, yet here they are, still plaguing Earth like cockroaches. A definite hiccup in evolution.”

— H.D. Carlton

187. “Being loved by me will hurt like hell. It’s everything you deserve.”

— H.D. Carlton

188. “I don’t think I’m running from him anymore, but rather from the person I’m going to be when he’s finished with me.”

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189. “Learning to accept my own scars was a process, and one I faced alone. But Addie will never face anything alone again. Soon, I’ll trace my tongue across each one and show her that she’s still beautiful with or without them.”

— H.D. Carlton

190. “See, the bean gods did bless us. With coffee beans.”

— H.D. Carlton

191. “I’ve never feared death, Enzo. I’m only afraid to live and it all be for nothing.”

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192. “I was happy. Bored, but happy. And now my very own stalker is teaching me self-defense moves. Not against himself, but his enemies. The irony is not lost on me, unlike my success in not getting choked to death.”

— H.D. Carlton

193. “But Z? Z isn’t going anywhere, even when I’m buried six feet under. I will raise a generation to take over, and they will do the same.”

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194. “I turn, run over to the string, click off the light and dash down the stairs like the girl from The Ring is chasing after me.”

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195. “I don’t ever want to be free of you, Zade. Not in this lifetime, and not in all the ones that come after.”

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196. “Never let me go. I’ll die with your hands wrapped around my throat.”

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197. “But you’re the first one to have broken me first, Max. I can admit that. You broke me into tiny little pieces when you took Addie from me.”

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198. “He invades my body like a parasite would, an unwelcome tenant that leeches from my life force to feed his own.”

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199. “Whatever gets her to stop waving my grandmother’s crusty underwear in my face.”

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200. “Life strips you of power often, but what you can control is pointing the blame in the right direction.”

— H.D. Carlton