Top 200 H.D. Carlton Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

— H.D. Carlton

202. “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.”

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

204. “I’d make a good fertilizer, and vines of roses could grow from my rib cage while I become one with the earth again.”

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

206. “She may be a siren, but she’s mine to hurt just as much as she’s mine to protect.”

— H.D. Carlton

207. “Before he can respond, I lean forward and collect the beads of blood on my tongue. Then, I slowly lick my lips, smearing the crimson around my mouth like lipstick.”

— H.D. Carlton

208. “Belittling those who support you isn’t smart. Haven’t you read the history books? Using fear to demand respect is a fragile construct. It doesn’t last because no one can trust you, and the first opportunity they have to betray you, they take. Z isn’t built on fear, Claire. It’s built on the mutual desire to kill people like you. And you know what? My organization trusts me to do that.”

— H.D. Carlton

209. “She walked into this place firmly believing she could conquer the world if only she gave Zade the one thing he’s been working so hard for. Doesn’t she know? Zade is a God. And the only one who will conquer this world is him.”

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

212. “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.”

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

215. “Wrong. I didn’t suspect the abused wife only because I couldn’t imagine one victim actively victimizing other innocent women and children.”

— H.D. Carlton

216. “So, not only do you only fear me in the daylight, but you only love me when I’m making you come.”

— H.D. Carlton

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

— H.D. Carlton

218. “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

219. “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.”

— H.D. Carlton

220. “There will always be pockets missing where my innocence used to reside.”

— H.D. Carlton

221. “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

222. “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

223. “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

224. “I’ve spent so much time running that I don’t remember why I’m living.”

— H.D. Carlton

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “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

229. “I wanted to watch you,” he confesses. And then he tacks on with dry amusement, “In peace.”

— H.D. Carlton

230. “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

231. “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