R. Phoenix > Quotes

“I want your surrender, not your despair. I thought you would bend, not break.”
― R. Phoenix, Gilded Cages

“Not everything works out the way we plan.”
― R. Phoenix, Gilded Cages

“Could he get aroused by the soft and the harsh, the light and the dark? I’m not sure.”
― R. Phoenix, Tarnished Cages

“Things change all the time, and the more we grasp them, the more it feels like sand is slipping through our fingers. They have to be held gently and carefully, for squeezing ruins the composition.
I’ve squeezed Zay until there was damn near nothing left, until he surrendered and broke before my eyes, but he’s not truly gone. If I opened the door and told him he could leave without consequence, he would.
For now.”
― R. Phoenix, Tarnished Cages

“Stay with me,” I say. “I’m not letting you go back. Fuck Corbin, fuck his rules, and fuck his attempts to kill me. I’m not letting you go.”
― R. Phoenix, Surrender

“Callie might have valued art, and she might have surrounded herself with talented artists of every kind, but she valued other things.”
― R. Phoenix

“It was one thing to be a bloodsucking monster. It was another entirely to be a bloodthirsty monster who was heartbeats away from losing whatever humanity still remained to him.”
― R. Phoenix, Asymmetry

“This is what Daddy wants, and what Daddy wants, Daddy gets.”
― R. Phoenix, Tarnished Cages

“Now you kneel before us. You bare your throats. You spread your legs. You work, you serve, you fuck, and you submit. You obey, or you die.”
― R. Phoenix, The Fate of the Fallen: Books 1-3