Top 250 H.D. Carlton Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “One blue eye so light, it’s nearly white, with a wicked scar slashing straight down through it. And one brown eye so dark, it appears obsidian.”

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

203. “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.”

— H.D. Carlton

204. “Why is it that being in public places and social settings make me want to light myself on fire, but when someone breaks into my house, I feel brave enough to stay?”

— H.D. Carlton

205. “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

206. “You need to figure out your morals, and what you’re okay living with. Not what you’ve been taught, but what you feel in your gut.”

— H.D. Carlton

207. “People often only care about life when it’s inside of a woman’s stomach but stop caring once that life is born.”

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208. “I can’t figure out what scares me more – him in the dark, or him in the light.”

— H.D. Carlton

209. “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

210. “These men may be skilled in hunting, but what they don’t know is that I’ve been hunted by a far scarier man.”

— H.D. Carlton

211. “I would rather just off myself than trick Addie into loving me as a good man, just to break both of our hearts when she realizes I’m not a good man at all.”

— H.D. Carlton

212. “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.”

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213. “I’m not a natural when it comes to social interactions. I’m the type to stare dead into your face with a frozen smile after being asked a question while my brain processes the fact that I didn’t even hear the question. It’s usually because my heart is thumping too loud in my ears.”

— H.D. Carlton

214. “How long has he been stalking me for? Three months? Not very long at all. In fact, that’s such an insignificant amount of time, it almost makes me sick. There’s still so much I don’t know about him. What’s his favorite color? Does he have allergies? I hope he’s allergic to all my favorite foods so I don’t have to share. Or, at least I hope he doesn’t like them. More for me.”

— H.D. Carlton

215. “Love is funny that way. It persists even when you’ve done everything in your power to banish it. It demands its own voice and refuses to be a slave to anyone but its own desires. And despite the power of it, those selfish desires are what make love so weak.”

— H.D. Carlton

216. “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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217. “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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218. “There’s no way she has rose-colored glasses on with him. She has dark, black sunshades on.”

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219. “I think Addie would sooner rip my balls off before she’d ever kneel at my feet. Lucky for her, I’d gladly kneel at hers. Kiss her little toes while I’m at it, too. Eventually, my mouth would lead up between her legs, but I don’t think she’d mind that part.”

— H.D. Carlton

220. “Don’t be fooled, little ghost, I will own you even after you’ve disappeared. You may vanish, but your soul will always be mine.”

— H.D. Carlton

221. “When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away.”

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222. “I’ll never understand how humans fear death when time is far scarier. It ultimately leads us to death because it’s the only thing that truly makes us mortal. We’re locked in the illusion with no way out.”

— H.D. Carlton

223. “Can you imagine what it would feel like to have my love for that long?”

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224. “And I will accept nothing less. The only type of daddy I’m interested in is the sugary ones.”

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225. “I call you my rose because for you, I would take all your pain so you would suffer none,” I tell her softly. “I would go through hell for you. Die for you. Do anything you asked. I love you, mia rosa. More than you will ever know.”

— H.D. Carlton

226. “The day I handed over my love to him was the first time a God fell to his knees, bowed his head, and prayed. He prayed because I gave him the one thing he could never control, and he never wanted to lose it.”

— H.D. Carlton

227. “I would follow you anywhere, Genevieve. If you were standing at the edge of the earth and wanted to fall, I would only stop you long enough to take hold of your hand so I could go with you. There isn’t a life where I wouldn’t be your phantom, or a death where I wouldn’t be your reaper.”

— H.D. Carlton

228. “You shouldn’t litter,” I say hoarsely, earning a slight grin in return. He bends and picks up the cigarette butt and deposits it in his pocket. “Sorry, baby,” he rasps. “Won’t happen again.”

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229. “Maybe people with dark souls aren’t all bad. Just because they’re dark, that doesn’t mean they’re not redeemable. That doesn’t mean there isn’t good in there.”

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230. “I will chase away all your nightmares until they grow wary of returning. They will fear me, my little ghost. But you never will.”

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231. “There isn’t a life where I wouldn’t be your phantom, or a death where I wouldn’t be your reaper.”

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232. “And then he smiles, his mouth stretching into a wicked smirk. My breath hitches, and my lungs fill with fire.”

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233. “His eyes. One so dark and bottomless, it feels like staring into a well. And the other, an ice blue so light, it’s nearly white, reminding me of a husky’s eyes. A scar slashes straight down through the discolored eye, as if it didn’t already demand attention.”

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234. “He succumbs to me like the Titanic did the ocean. Indestructible – unsinkable – to everyone but me. I’m the raging sea that conquered him and sunk him to his very knees, and he was helpless to stop me.”

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235. “I want the flames to melt our hands together so she can never let go.”

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236. “Because staring into her eyes is the only thing I needed, to convince myself she’s everything I’ll ever want for as long as oxygen invades my lungs. I knew it deep in my bones the day I met her. Even back then, my soul immediately recognized hers as its other half.”

— H.D. Carlton

237. “My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it’ll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it’s a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose – that takes devotion.”

— H.D. Carlton

238. “I’m living in a Victorian gothic dreamhouse.”

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239. “The only waterfall I’m interested in is the one I’ll be drinking from between your thighs. Now face forward and bend over the railing, mia rosa. I won’t ask you again.”

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240. “Do you have any idea how hard it is to only love you in the dark when you deserve to be loved in the light?”

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241. “I’ve never been good at making the right decision.”

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242. “I hear you’re good at making people disappear.” The deep, male voice is jarring and not what I was expecting. I pull the phone away from my ear, checking the number. It’s unknown. “Who is this?” “Most know me by Z. But you can call me Zade.”

— H.D. Carlton

243. “I want to be the only thing that keeps you up at night, bella ladra,” he growls. “And if anyone is going to hurt you, it’s going to be me.”

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244. “Who says you have to choose? Kill them all, Sibby.”

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245. “UNKNOWN: Sneaking off with random men, little mouse? If I catch his hands anywhere near you, they’ll end up in your mailbox by morning.”

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246. “I’m sure you’ve never had to be strong before, Sawyer, but now is the time to learn.”

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247. “If Genevieve is my end, then I open the door to death with no hesitation.”

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248. “It has a way of making you feel small and insignificant when you’re standing before a sight as beautiful as that.”

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249. “I call her a little ghost, yet for some reason, I never considered that the brat would actually ghost me.”

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250. “Next, we’ll graduate to my wife and then the mother of my children.”

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