Top 200 Michelle Hodkin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Current mood: David Foster Wallace meets Amy Winehouse.”

— Michelle Hodkin

52. “You can’t keep a secret from the person you love and expect it not to change him, too. She doesn’t trust me with something, which makes me distrust her, and that makes our hands miss each other when we pass something over the table. It makes my mouth just miss hers when I lean to kiss her lips and end up with cheek instead.”

— Michelle Hodkin

53. “Go away. I’m smelly. And you bother me enormously.”

— Michelle Hodkin

54. “I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn’t bring myself to care.”

— Michelle Hodkin

55. “The way she sounds, the way she’s always sounded – like one discordant note, twisted just enough to affect the notes surrounding it, is impossible to ignore.”

— Michelle Hodkin

56. “They lie, you know. It’s not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.”

— Michelle Hodkin

57. “We will do this while we can, and when we can’t anymore, I will remember the feel of your mouth on me and the taste of your tongue and the weight of your hands on mine, and I will be happy.” I whisper against her skin, “If you choose me.”

— Michelle Hodkin

58. “I don’t know how to make you understand what you do to me. Just thinking about kissing you is enough. Feeling your tongue against mine. The way you taste. The sounds you make. Everything. I’ve wanted you so much, for so long, but in the way you want things you’ll never, ever have. Like no matter what I do, you’ll always be just out of reach. But when you kiss me? It’s like I’m on fire.”

— Michelle Hodkin

59. “She was constantly surprising, infinitely complex. Unknowable. Unpredictable. I have never met anyone more fascinating in my life, and all the time in the world wouldn’t be enough to ever know her.”

— Michelle Hodkin

60. “I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.”

— Michelle Hodkin

61. “The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don’t. No matter what anyone pretends.”

— Michelle Hodkin

62. “A thing I loved about her immediately, though, she looked back at me completely without pity.”

— Michelle Hodkin

63. “And I would never give up. I’ve done terrible things I regret and terrible things I don’t. But I don’t need to be fixed. I don’t need to be saved. I just have to keep going.”

— Michelle Hodkin

64. “When I don’t see her, her ghost wanders in my veins.”

— Michelle Hodkin

65. “I will not find peace with her. But there will be no greater passion.”

— Michelle Hodkin

66. “She is your weakness as you are hers.”

— Michelle Hodkin

67. “Noah started this chase and I stood before him, waiting to be caught. He could have me, but he refused to move. Only now did I realize why. He wanted to be caught. He was waiting for me to chase him.”

— Michelle Hodkin

68. “This was the boy I loved. A little bit messy. A little bit ruined. A beautiful disaster. Just like me.”

— Michelle Hodkin

69. “There’s nothing I want. There’s nothing I can’t do. I don’t care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life.”

— Michelle Hodkin

70. “The villain is the hero of her own story. No one thinks they’re a bad person. Everyone has reasons for doing what they do. Jude and I are not as different as you think.”

— Michelle Hodkin

71. “The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.”

— Michelle Hodkin

72. “I want her to split me open, to dig her fingers in and pry open my ribs, lick my heart and my blood and my bones. Pick open my bones and suck out the marrow. I want to be devoured by her. And she wants to devour me just as badly. It’s in every look, every movement, every smile.”

— Michelle Hodkin

73. “And just like that, I was completely, utterly, and entirely, His.”

— Michelle Hodkin

74. “Sorry’ doesn’t mean anything when you can’t promise not to do it again.”

— Michelle Hodkin

75. “Anyway, there’s some fuckery afoot, clearly, but I don’t think you’re possessed.”

— Michelle Hodkin

76. “That’s what separated us from the multitudes of Them. We lived harder. Knew better. But we laughed anyway. Laughed because there was nothing else to do but give up.”

— Michelle Hodkin

77. “Hard luck, mate.”

— Michelle Hodkin

78. “I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.”

— Michelle Hodkin

79. “It’s just a needle and it’s only pain. Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren’t real.”

— Michelle Hodkin

80. “Noah acted like he felt nothing because he felt everything. He seemed not to care because he cared too much.”

— Michelle Hodkin

81. “When evil smiles at you, you smile back.”

— Michelle Hodkin

82. “The bullies never remember, but the bullied never forget.”

— Michelle Hodkin

83. “But when everyone tells you you’re crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren’t, a small part of you will always wonder if they’re right.”

— Michelle Hodkin

84. “The villain is the hero of her own story. No one thinks they’re a bad person. Everyone has reasons for what they do.”

— Michelle Hodkin

85. “Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.”

— Michelle Hodkin

86. “The smell of cold, damp earth and wet layers of leaves hooks onto childhood memories and tries reeling them to the surface of my mind.”

— Michelle Hodkin

87. “When the sun peeked through the trees and I realized that I could stare at it, bask in it, worship it if I wanted to, my mouth curved into a smile. I was free.”

— Michelle Hodkin

88. “You don’t get what you do for him. You’re like his manic pixie dream girl or something.” Jamie thought for a second. “Actually, more like his psychotic demon nightmare thing, but whatever. You get my point.”

— Michelle Hodkin

89. “Most people are like sand, the impact of their lives washed away by years.”

— Michelle Hodkin

90. “Mara takes my hand. “Noah Shaw, will you impregnate me immediately?”

— Michelle Hodkin

91. “The air around us was charged as we stood opposite each other. Healer and destroyer, noon and midnight. We were silently deadlocked.”

— Michelle Hodkin

92. “I stare at her above me and want her to pry me open, to crack my ribs, lick my heart, break my bones and suck out the marrow. I want to live inside of her.”

— Michelle Hodkin

93. “No, it isn’t irrelevant. You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you.”

— Michelle Hodkin

94. “Para las chicas malas, y los chicos que las quieren.”

— Michelle Hodkin

95. “The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.”

— Michelle Hodkin

96. “I explore the full boxes, mostly brimming with battered, dog-eared, highlighted books. The pages are worn, well-read, and I skim through them. I wonder if it’s possible to know someone through the words they loved.”

— Michelle Hodkin

97. “I put on my shoes and a big, fake smile. I laughed on the outside while I screamed on the inside. My body was in the restaurant but my mind was in hell.”

— Michelle Hodkin

98. “Mara’s hand is in my hair as I lean my head back against the cracked leather seat, eyes closed, mind ruminating.”

— Michelle Hodkin

99. “Like your the ocean and he’s desperate to drown.”

— Michelle Hodkin

100. “The freaks shall inherit the earth.”

— Michelle Hodkin