Top 180 Sophie Lark Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Don’t you ever believe that, Mara. This is what gives us power: we always have a choice.”

— Sophie Lark

152. “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

153. “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

154. “Love is inherently dangerous.”

— Sophie Lark

155. “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

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

— Sophie Lark

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

— Sophie Lark

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Sophie Lark

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

— Sophie Lark

163. “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

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

— Sophie Lark

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Sophie Lark

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

— Sophie Lark

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

— Sophie Lark

172. “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

173. “Have you ever done that before?” Another long pause, in which I think he won’t answer. Then, finally, he says, “Not like that.”

— Sophie Lark

174. “Because I’m not a good guy,” I tell her. “Not even a little bit.”

— Sophie Lark

175. “I’ve never felt this before, but I know exactly what it is. “I love you.” Right while I’m thinking it, I say it out loud. I let the words cross the bridge of air between us.”

— Sophie Lark

176. “This is a man who hasn’t heard the word ‘no’ in a very long time. The pleasure of denying him is almost sweeter than all those zeroes in my account.”

— Sophie Lark

177. “Having recently been grazed in the arm by my loving wife, I can definitely attest that having a knife slowly, torturously burrowed into your guts is about a hundred times worse.”

— Sophie Lark

178. “I missed you too, sweetheart,” she says. Then she kisses me on the mouth.”

— Sophie Lark

179. “This obsession with Mara consumes me. It’s all I think about. It directs every action I take. I’ve never felt so out of control – which upsets me.”

— Sophie Lark

180. “I want Camille like I’ve never wanted anything in my life. I want her to love me. She’s the only one who knows me, so she’s the only one who can. And I want to love her.”

— Sophie Lark