colours of viridian | BOOK ONE | J a d e d ✔️

Q u o t e s : chapter favourites

Feeling nostalgic? I was. Here's a list of my favourite quotes from each chapter. Feel free to comment your favourite colours of viridian quote if you have one. — Kate Marr, author of colours of viridian

W a r n i n g : Spoilers --if you haven't caught up yet, I suggest you not read passed the chapter you're on because there are no guarantees that it won't spoil something for you.

i - A b o v e
Curtains. Long dark curtains that hid away the brightness -those were the first things to go on my list.
ii - S t u b b o r n
The first new guy in like ten years and he was an asshole. Just my luck.
iii - C o n t r o l
"Hey, uh -girl." I frowned, not knowing what to call her. Human would be too obvious, wouldn't it?
iv - H a u n t e d
Whatever sicko was doing those things, clearly croaked or found some other place to hunt unsuspecting victims.
v - P r e d a t o r
My jaw clenched as everything inside of me wanted to make her shut up -to just bite into her pretty little neck and drink that damning blood coursing through her veins.
vi - P r e y
It all seemed like some twisted fairytale story where he was the big bad wolf trying to eat me.
vii - W r o n g
It was like having sex while stupidly intoxicated: you almost always regretted it the next morning and even then you only remembered some of it.
viii - C o n f l i c t e d
"I might be a bad guy compared to most, but I do try to keep some morals."
ix - F a s c i n a t e d
She looked like a piece of art and all I wanted to do was study her.
x - C u r i o s i t y
"It wasn't right because that's not all there is to you. I mean, you're an asshole and a monster yes," my head turned back to the path in front of me with a nonchalant shrug, "but you also have a side that's...normal."
xi - e X p o s e d
The blood on his hand quickly stained her locks red as he played with the shiny curly strands.
xii - H e a d a c h e
"God. Your voice is sickening. Like it's literally making me want to vomit."
xiii - M a s t e r p i e c e
She wasn't just another piece of art, she was a masterpiece.
xiv - E x p l o s i o n
️Each pain consuming me until all I knew was the feeling of death...and yet it was worse than death. It was a merciless pain that wouldn't bring me the peace of dying
xv - S e l f i s h
I was selfish. I wanted her to live.
xvi - F r o z e n
It wasn't romantic. It was just...this. Like a mutual beneficial, uh, acquaintanceship.
xvii - V e m o n o u s
️I wasn't sure if I wanted to throw her over my shoulder and forcefully bring her to her dorm already --or catch the damn butterfly for her.
xviii - I r r e s i s t i b l e
️"You taste..." He trailed off in the most seductive voice I had ever heard. His eyes opened and they were almost completely black now as they pierced mine. "-Irresistible."
xix - B l o o d l u s t
️She was too delicious for her own good. It would get her in trouble one of these days --I just hoped it would be with me and no one else.
xx - F r i e n d s
"I'm sorry, My Love." He purred watching with his glowing intrigued eyes as my body twitched from the slow burning suffocation while the blood gurgled inside of my mouth, sputtering out of my lips, "It seems I may have gotten a little too carried away."
xxi - K i s s
I was supposed to kiss her and she was supposed to kiss me back. It was going to be soft and gentle and she wouldn't be... dead.
xxii - Q u e e n
"️What are you now? Some type of Vampire hippie going around saying 'Save the humans!'?"
xxiii - K e n a d i a
"️All you have to do is ask and she'll whisper it to you."
xxiv - B i t t e r
️She was snarky and a monster but that's what made her so lively. She was commanding and her fear motivated her. She drew pictures as if she were seeing the souls of her muses. She was intriguing and... She couldn't be dead.
xxv - I n v i s i b l e
️It would have been dazzling...if not for the fact I was losing my mind.
xxvi - D i s a p p e a r i n g
️It didn't matter how tightly I held onto her, she was still slipping through my grip and I felt hopeless to stop it.
xxvii - P o n d
️It was like I was in a fairytale... Except for the warm fuzzy feelings, I was feeling sick and just wanted to go home.
xxviii - B u t t e r f l i e s
Better a butterfly heart than a human heart, right?
xxix - B e t r a y a l
Her lips ripped across her cheeks as her deadly teeth slashed open her flesh.
xxx - R e g r e t
️It was just barely noticeable. But it was there. The floral sweet scent that I had goddamn missed so much.
xxxi - A n g u i s h
️They all left me to burn in hell.
xxxii - T r u s t
I just wanted to know everything about her. Learn every curve and dip on her body. Taste her skin and lips and everything else I had yet to discover. I wanted to know the sounds she made when I did and how her heart would beat and blood would rush. I wanted to hold her and feel her against me. I never wanted to let her go.
xxxiii - F r u s t r a t i o n
My heart was doing backflips and my palms were sweating. He was turning me into a 15-year-old girl with a crush. It was ridiculous
xxxiv - B e a u t i f u l
Those lips would be the death of me soon if I didn't have them.
xxxv - B i t e
️He could have my blood; I just wanted all of him in return.
xxxvi - H u n g e r
"️You're far too beautiful for clothes, little beast."
xxxvii - H e a r t a c h e
I missed them so much. It hurt so bad. It was all so hopeless.
xxxviii - S t a y
"Will you leave me?"
xxxix - D a r k n e s s
Evil seemed to be seeping out of the once living greenery, bringing a blackened rot to everything it touched.
xl - S u b m i s s i v e
"By all means. I'll keep my distance from the little love if it means I get to keep my head."
xli - W o r t h l e s s
"You're worthless, you know that?"
xlii - A k a s h a
If he ever left me, I wanted it to be because he no longer felt the same way --not because he felt like in order to keep me safe he couldn't be with me. That was just cruel.    
xliii - T e a s e
"Don't tease the already tempted."
xliv - C a l m
He was great at a lot of things due to all of his many previous experiences... 
xlv - I n t r u s i o n
It was as if walking in and finding a friend eating all of your food wearing only their underwear. It was strange but it didn't make you feel the need to call for help.
xlvi - S c a r e d
"Are you gonna come in, Kenna? Or are you just going to stand out there and sigh?"
xlvii - Y o u r s
And all of the sudden I understood the terrible yet wonderful pressure in my very soul. I had completely, one hundred percent, fallen for my little beast. And God, was it ever satisfying to love her.
xlviii - S e c r e t s
"Vampire got your tongue?" His perfect lips twitched up as his thumb fell down to my bottom lip, his eyes following his touch. "I can untie it for you. Just say the word, little beast."
xlix - W h i p l a s h
"You're stuck with me. I'm not going anywhere unless you're there waiting for me."
l - L o v e
He didn't love me. He couldn't love me. I had felt what love was for a Vampire. It was blood. It was feeding until all that was left behind was a corpse. It was darkness. It was death.
li - V a n i s h e d
"She can't be gone!" I growled out, my eyes searching frantically for a hidden spark of the cruel joke she was trying to play on me in her big blue eyes. It wasn't there.
lii - D e s t r u c t i o n
Knowledge wasn't what I thought it was. It was evil. It brought to life monsters and it showed you what has been hiding under your bed after all of this time.
liii - A l i v e

liv - R e v e n g e

lv - D i s f i g u r e d

lvi - B i t t e r s w e e t

lvii - N u m b

lviii - N o t h i n g n e s s

lix - P u r i f y