Tragic Beauty Quotes

“She was the most god damn beautiful thing I'd ever seen. A tragic beauty I couldn't stop staring at.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“He won't break me. He will never break me.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“One night.
One night for myself is all I wanted.
One night with someone who isn’t determined to completely destroy me.
But that’s gone now.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I know I hurt you before. I know you're hurting now. But I'm still going to hurt you again.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“Not fair,” I whisper.

“No, darlin’, I suppose it’s not fair. I never did play fair though, you know that. Especially when it comes to you.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“...my savior and my torment.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“All around me it’s black. So black I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to find my way back. I’m not sure I want to find my way back. That’s a devastating thought, knowing I’m drifting to that edge, knowing I’m flirting with that dark void that whispers to me from the other side. Taunting me with numbness. Calling to me with emptiness.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“You know what else will get me off? Pushing you. Pushing you to your limits. Pushing until you can’t take anymore. You’ll beg me to stop. Hopefully even cry. And you know what I’ll do?”

I swallow and shake my head.

He leans in, brushing his lips against my ear, and whispers, “I’ll push you some more.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I know I hurt you before,” he says. “I know you’re hurting now. But I’m still going to hurt you again.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I walk into the moonlit room and hear the click of the door behind me. A heartbeat later his presence is at my back. He stands there, hovering, the only contact the heat that simmers off his body onto mine. Then I feel it—a fingertip, or perhaps the back of his finger, moving slowly up and down my spine.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“Alright, Ava,” he says, his voice so soft now it’s almost a whisper. “Here’s what’s going to happen. You like it when it hurts? Well, I’m going to hurt you, baby. I’m going to hurt you in ways you can’t imagine.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I swear, Ava, from then on, you were like this madness inside my head, I never could get past. I knew then, you would be mine. You would always be mine.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I reach out slowly and run my fingertips along the dark line of his jaw. “I don’t need you to be gentle. I can’t afford gentle.” It’s the truth. It may seem strange, but I know what my future holds. It won’t be gentle. It will be anything but gentle.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“They had no idea who I really was.” He leans in close again. “But you knew, didn’t you, Ava? You’ve always known. Maybe that’s why I’ve always been so drawn to you. Always wanted to get inside you, because you’ve always been inside me.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“One night. One messed-up, beautiful night is all we had together, and yet I feel like I’ve been with him every night since then. Because in many ways, I have. He’s been in my thoughts, my dreams, my memories, like a dark knight who never ever left my side, even when I left his.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“He’s close now. So close, I can hear his quick breaths, hear the twigs breaking beneath his feet as he hunts me down. The moonlight pulses overhead, peeking here and there though the canopy of trees. Quick, quick, quick, my legs carry me but I know my freedom’s coming to an end.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I thought I'd already gone down about as deep as a soul could go--down into that black abyss called hell--but I was wrong. There's more to go.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I wasn't prepared for you, Ava.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“It feels like I'm falling. Falling down some bottomless pit. All I'm missing is the wind at my back.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“You can kick, and scream, and cry when no one’s looking, but don’t you ever give up, Ava. Never give up.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“I’m a brutal lover,”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“tit-turd.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“He tilts his head, watching me with that face. That pretty face, with the steel cut jaw and the deep set eyes that make all the women swoon, but I know what’s inside him.

I stay still and quiet, playing possum with the beast.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty