Top 180 Sophie Lark Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Do you know why I sent you away?” I ask her. “Yes,” she sobs. “Because you love me.” “That’s right,” I sigh.”

— Sophie Lark

52. “I feel no sympathy. No guilt. Those are emotions I’ve never experienced. I’m aware, academically, of the full range of human emotions. I’ve studied them intently so I can mimic their effects. But they have no power over me. What I do feel, I feel intensely: rage, revulsion, and pleasure.”

— Sophie Lark

53. “I’m more than good, and he’s more than bad. We’re opposites, and yet made for each other.”

— Sophie Lark

54. “Even if you see how dark the world can be... choose to believe it could be better. Life had been beautiful once. It could be beautiful again.”

— Sophie Lark

55. “I’m not trying to change who you are. I’m trying to reveal it. A diamond can’t shine until it’s cut.”

— Sophie Lark

56. “Then you can go around the house and garden. Everywhere but the west wing.” I don’t ask him what’s in the west wing.”

— Sophie Lark

57. “It’s better to be friends than enemies, don’t you think?” I’m ready to be his best friend if he’ll keep touching me like that.”

— Sophie Lark

58. “The ones we love aren’t lost to us forever. Love endures past anything else. It’s the strongest energy in the universe. It changes and flows, but can never be destroyed.”

— Sophie Lark

59. “Now it’s all been ripped away, and what am I without it? A weak and frightened girl who is so deeply, deeply lonely that I would even sit down to dinner with my own kidnapper again, just to have someone to talk to.”

— Sophie Lark

60. “There’s nothing healthier than olive oil and red wine. You eat like an Italian and you’ll live forever. It’s not good to be too skinny.”

— Sophie Lark

61. “What are you doing, little ballerina?” he growls.”

— Sophie Lark

62. “This is a girl who’s meant to shine in the dark like a silvery star. I found her. I brought her here. Now she’s lighting up my night.”

— Sophie Lark

63. “That’s a lie. I have tried it. All I learned is that no amount of submission is good enough for a man. You can roll over, show your belly, beg for mercy, and they’ll just keep hitting you. Because the very act of breathing is rebellious in the eyes of an angry male.”

— Sophie Lark

64. “All the light went out of my life,” I whisper. “I’ve been so dark without you.”

— Sophie Lark

65. “Then I taste his lips and his tongue, I breathe in his scent, and it’s gasoline on an open flame. I’m the wood, he’s the accelerant. No matter how much we burn, we’re never used up.”

— Sophie Lark

66. “The truth is, I do feel abandoned.”

— Sophie Lark

67. “It’s a simple equation: men have the power. If men were good, the world would be good.”

— Sophie Lark

68. “A marriage strangles and dies on apathy. Passion keeps it alive.”

— Sophie Lark

69. “I’ve never been hugged like this, by someone strong. Someone who could hurt me if he wanted to, but instead is using his immense power to give me that sense of protection and support that I’ve never known in all my life.”

— Sophie Lark

70. “We were two halves of a heart, torn apart, bleeding and aching to be stitched back together again.”

— Sophie Lark

71. “The pain enhances the pleasure, and the pleasure enhances the pain.”

— Sophie Lark

72. “I slap him again, even harder. So hard that my hand stings. A bright bead of blood rises on his lower lip. Dean seizes me by the back of the neck and kisses me hard. I taste the blood on his lip, like salt and iron.”

— Sophie Lark

73. “I’ve killed fourteen people and I’ve yet to receive a single knock on my door.”

— Sophie Lark

74. “I shouldn’t like you now,” she says. “But I do.” I shouldn’t like her, either. But I do.”

— Sophie Lark

75. “They think they know Leo Gallo. Anna is the only person who actually does.”

— Sophie Lark

76. “I don’t know if I ever heard Zoe laugh before this year. It’s a captivating sound, low and intimate, meant only for me. “I knew you were trouble,” she says. “You have no idea,” I tell her.”

— Sophie Lark

77. “Don’t you ever believe that, Mara. This is what gives us power: we always have a choice.”

— Sophie Lark

78. “Love is always magic. It’s not rational, it doesn’t follow any law. You can’t make rules for it, you can’t forbid it. You can’t even make it disappear within yourself. It’s alive like all magic, and it wants to change you.”

— Sophie Lark

79. “Here’s what you need to understand Mara: it’s okay for bad things to feel good. You can take pleasure from whatever you want.”

— Sophie Lark

80. “Love is inherently dangerous.”

— Sophie Lark

81. “I love this woman. The day she set my house on fire was the luckiest day of my life. It truly is the luck of the Irish: perverse. Inexplicable. And utterly fantastic. “Do you forgive me for losing it in the first place?” she asks me, slipping her slim little hand into mine. “I shouldn’t tell you how much you could get away with, Aida,” I say, shaking my head. “But you already know that I’d forgive anything you do.”

— Sophie Lark

82. “We can never really see ourselves except reflected in other people’s eyes.”

— Sophie Lark

83. “Riona got her law degree, mostly to prove she could, I think.”

— Sophie Lark

84. “Then she holds out her wrist to me. “I want you,” she says. “And you want me.” I close the manacle around her wrist, hearing it lock in place. “Now I have you,” I say.”

— Sophie Lark

85. “Everyone is a mix of good and bad. Can the good cancel out the bad? I don’t know. I’m not sure I even care. If there’s no objective measure, then all that matters is how I feel. Cole is a shade of gray I can accept.”

— Sophie Lark

86. “They call him the Beast of the Bay for the way he batters his victims and even bites chunks out of their flesh.”

— Sophie Lark

87. “Who do performers perform for when they’re alone? Are they ever alone in their heads?”

— Sophie Lark

88. “If we’re ever alone in a room again, only one of us will walk out breathing.”

— Sophie Lark

89. “I don’t think he means to kiss me. But one hand on my face becomes two, and then he pulls me toward him, our lips coming together in one smooth movement.”

— Sophie Lark

90. “I hold perfectly still. With five or six quick jerks, he’s cut the dress off my body, leaving it in pieces on the limo floor.”

— Sophie Lark

91. “The truth is a blade that only cuts a liar. And the most dangerous lies are the ones you tell yourself.”

— Sophie Lark

92. “It’s the ones you cut deep, the ones that are ragged, the ones you make over others that are still healing: those stay forever.”

— Sophie Lark

93. “I feel like Peter Parker right after he gets bitten by the radioactive spider, when the onrush of super senses almost makes his brain explode.”

— Sophie Lark

94. “Good,” Dean breathes. “Because the way you look in that dress – I couldn’t stand to see you dance with anyone else.”

— Sophie Lark

95. “Mara laughs. I don’t know if I’ve ever made her laugh before. I like the way it rolls out of her, throaty and pleased. “Better.”

— Sophie Lark

96. “But there’s a figure laying in the middle of the floor, hands tied in front of her, feet bound with rope, head propped up on a pillow. Nice. I’m glad he made sure she was comfy before he tried to burn her alive.”

— Sophie Lark

97. “I do not love men: I love what devours them. That actually makes me laugh. I haven’t laughed in some time.”

— Sophie Lark

98. “Why be one thing when you can be everything?”

— Sophie Lark

99. “That’s why there was no emotion on my side, just indifference. You need push and pull to feel love. Or hate.”

— Sophie Lark

100. “I’ll do anything for a compliment. I want praise. I want it badly. And I especially want it from this man, who doesn’t like anyone or anything.”

— Sophie Lark