The Revenge Pact Quotes

“What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. A jug fills drop by drop.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Listen, when you like a flower, you pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily, hold it close, tell it your secrets, and watch it bloom and grow strong. You grow strong with it.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“If I Can’t Have You” by Shawn Mendes plays on the speakers, a song about keeping your distance, about hating to admit how you really feel about someone you can’t have. Goose bumps skate over my arms. Why does that song make me think of him?”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. ​— ​The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Sometimes it only takes one sunrise to know someone.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“It’s as if she’s disappearing a little at a time. You know that feeling you get, the one that makes your soul shrivel, the one that tells you what’s happening is out of your control. There’s nothing I can do to save her.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Watching you with him nearly killed me, it did, and I pushed through, but that’s done. You, you…slay me, baby girl.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“And yet morning will come,” I say to myself. “And you will watch the sunrise.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.’ Let me introduce myself. I’m River. I’m your current boyfriend. Cross my heart and hope to die—not really, but you know what I mean. There are three things about you that caught my attention: First, you’re smart, too smart for me, but for some reason, you don’t care. Two, if you had wings, they’d be the colors of the rainbow. Three, you touch me, and I have peace. You’re a River-whisperer. Dad told me to take care of Mom, be a good brother to Rae, and wait for Anastasia. He somehow knew you were mine. Where are you from? Apparently, everywhere. Do you know how cool I think you are? Growing up moving around must have been hard, but it created a woman who looks at someone and sees underneath to the parts others don’t. What are you doing after this? I hope after this night, in the future, we’ll be together, in some city, crazy in love. Please tell me you’re single. You aren’t single, Anastasia. You’re mine. Also… I’m not a serial killer. True. Or an alien. (People in Walker really dig that stuff.) True. Or a player. I had my moments. Or a douchebag. Again, had some moments. Or a dick. Okay…maybe once or twice. I’m just the guy in front of you on a snow-covered mountain, baring his soul to the most beautiful girl in the world. You have dreams and I get it. I’ll wait for you forever. No matter how long it takes for us to come back to a place where we can be together for real. Your first reaction to this note may be to run as far as you can, but you only live once, and we can’t lose what we have. Fate has a way of bringing people together, and, baby girl, we’re meant to be. Kappa Boy AKA River Tate AKA Snake AKA Fake River AKA Anastasia’s Man”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“I’ve learned that beauty on the outside doesn’t matter if the inside is rotten.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“My smart girl.” His lips hover over mine, his eyes burning with emotion. “Fate put us together. I love you. Please. Just. Never leave me.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“live with no regrets; breathe, baby, just breathe; and like your mom said, a jug fills drop by drop, and soon ours will be full.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“I want the jug to be full. Now.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“You say my name weird."

He wipes at the crumbs on the table. "How's that?"

"You linger over it, like you're about to take it's clothes off and fuck it."

"Weed is truth serum for you.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Freud says slips of the tongue reveal unconscious thoughts”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“His voice lowers. “I’ve got class. I’ll see you soon, baby girl.” He makes a kissy noise into the phone, taps end, and tucks it in his jeans.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“My fantasy, so shut it.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“I’ve jumped into the deep end, and I don’t know how to swim.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Six things for you because you deserve them all.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“She stills the erratic side of me, and I’m not sure why that is.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“If I’m the twitching devil, you’re his crazy henchman.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“She’s a blank piece of paper; Anastasia is poetry on the paper.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Hmmm. A bad boy can be magical for a good girl,”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“You’re gonna regret this tomorrow,” he murmurs. “In the end, we only regret the things we didn’t do,” I tell him. “Amen!” Colette says.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“I whip off my varsity jacket and help her into it, pulling the collar around her neck. My lips graze hers. I don’t give a fuck what happened with her and Donovan in the basement. She’s my rainbow.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“My favorite quote is, ‘You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“when you like a flower, you pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily, hold it close, tell it your secrets, and watch it bloom and grow strong. You grow strong with it.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“Mind. Blown. I've created him just from memory. Maybe I did get some of the artist gene from my parents."

Lila scrunches her nose. "But, don't you think it's weird that all three of us see him? I mean, I understand you seeing him, but how are you getting in our heads at the same time? Is is telepathy?"

"Pot makes us powerful.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact

“This class was a mountain to me, Dr. Whitman. I climbed it. Fair and square.”
― Ilsa Madden-Mills, The Revenge Pact