Monty Jay

The Truths We Burn

Madison wright 

It makes sense now, how she stared me down when I threatened her on the side of the road. How she was so unafraid. There are only two people who can look the pits of hell in the eyes and not flinch. Those in Hell and those who already made their way out.

“I love him, Sage. I love him so much it physically takes my breath away, and I can’t have him hate me.” With ease, I reach over, wiping her tears with my thumb. “No tears for boys. We are too pretty for that.” She laughs wistfully. “Not funny. I’m surprised you didn’t tell me to leave him.” I bite my bottom lip. “Wellll,” I drawl out. “Sage!” she scolds, laughing louder, “I know you find it hard to believe, but Silas makes me happy.”

jenna

rook van doren😩😩😩

love this series sm omfg SO HOT

i can't deny the grip on me was a chokehold!!! ugh i'm only reading the succeeding books because of sage and rook 

camie⁷ 𓂃⊹ ˚ ༘`✦

Macy

brittney arthur

i hate that they got me? i started this book just so i could start book 3, but this is a pretty intense and decent dark enemies to lovers. it's just this book needs some cut off. yeah funny because it's a normal length book but some parts are just... there. could've safe our time to read. including also too many mention of lucifer and lilith and phoenix imagery, yes, i mean i get that it's their theme but the mention of them every two chapters made it lose it's meaning to me.

i like sage's tough 'mean' girl character though and hers and rook 'let's burn each others dynamics.' i also love the friendships, shared trauma bond between the boys, and the fierce bond between the girls.

Renata

i consumed this just like rook and sage's fire consume eachother, their backstories omg, both didn't deserve what happened to them, i cried. i knew since that "preview" in tlws that they were gonna be good asf and they were.
can we talk abt silas? I CRIED SO HARD, especially on the letter i was sobbing. i need to read his book

- "And I'll spend the rest of my life chasing that high. My pyromania is the drug and the cure."

- "Compulsive, menacing, heedless ideas circle my mind. I know I shouldn't. I should leave her be. She's the one girl I should not fuck with, but that makes her that much more enticing. Sage is a poison apple. Too pretty for her own good, but could kill you with one single bite. Even at the thought of that, I'm still ready to sink my teeth into her. I was never the one who thought things through. I act on impulse only, and right now, the only thing on my mind is showing her exactly what she's been missing."

- "Because I need you.""I need you to help me take the mask off. You're the only person I know not hiding from the world. You burn for it. This place, it's eating me alive, turning me into a person I don't recognize. Show me anarchy, show me something violent." "Show me all your truths, Rook. And I'll show you mine."
"You wanna take the mask off?" "Then take me to the place you hate most in the world, and I'll show you how to make it choke on the ashes of the girl they left to burn."

- "We're two people who never should've touched one another. Were both too hardheaded, too stub-born, two flames constantly trying to burn higher than the other. We weren't made for longevity. I'd wanted him too quick. Too much. It wouldn't have been healthy; it never would have worked. No matter how many times my heart tries to tell me differently. Maybe all we were meant to be was that. Two star-crossed lovers that made it out before Shakespeare had enough time to kill us. I touch the scar on my collarbone, a reminder, a gift."

- "I'm at my end. I'm starting to malfunction. Because of her eyes. They are fucking glowing. Bright blue like scalding flames, shining the way they did when we were together. When I thought she was something more.
When the words that came from her mouth were ones coated in holy water. They are so goddamn beautiful, and it hurts. It hurts more than Thatcher's cuts, more than Alistair's hits, my father's words. I hurt so fucking much that it prevents me from breathing. Every single inhale feels like needles in my throat. And for the first time in my life, I want the pain to stop. I need it to fucking stop."

- "It's here, while she's bent over a confessional inside the remnants of a singed church, that I realize she had never been Eve. I hadn't slithered into the Garden of Eden and stolen her, coerced her with the fruit. No, that would have been too easy. She had always been my Lilith. The reason I fell from grace, tumbling through the clouds and thrown into the pits of hell. Damned to live an eternity in the flames because of her."

- "A phoenix. One that makes no excuses for who she made herself into, no apologies if you get too close to her and find yourself scorched. They'd ripped her wings from her back, but she replaced them with ashes and eternal wings made of the hottest blue flame. And in order for her to fly, I'm going to cut the chains keeping her rooted to the ground."

- "Sage may not be a friend we may hate one another but it's ours. And she is mine."

- "You are not the devil, Rook."
"I never wanted to be," 

- "She needed a savior. And when one never came, she became her own, forged from the wickedness that had been done to her. She became what she had to in order to endure. I- we-of all people know what that's like. Better than anyone. Sage doesn't need anyone to slay her demons. I know that. But her inner child did, and even though she probably prayed for an angel instead of an angry man with horns, I'm still going to do what no one else had been able to. Protect her."

- "I've been told since I came back about how I'd fallen from grace. How I'd become someone completely different than who I used to be. But I think that's because I'm becoming the person I was always meant to be. And I want to do that, standing next to the person I was always meant to be with. This moment is my eternal damnation origin story. Instead of hiding it, I acknowledge for the first time publicly what it is I want. I show him exactly what it is I want for myself."

- "He is my Lucifer, and it's time for me to show him I could be his Lilith."

- "She had been my greatest heartache. The one who had ripped a hole so deep inside of me that I never thought I'd be able to fill it. I'd gotten used to the hollow valley inside my soul. But she's also my only salvation. The only altar I'd ever dare to worship."

- "She will never be able to lead me to the Garden of Eden or Heaven's pearly gates. It's too late for that.
But we could create our own peace. Our own salvation on our terms. Our own celestial city in the kingdom of eternal flames."

- "I'm keeping you," 
"You've always had me, Rook. Always."

- "We are together. And I've never felt more alive, even in a time when I was going through so much sorrow. I know I have him, and I no longer have to face the darkness alone, because he is the light that never goes out. And it's all mine."

- "She had never been the innocent Eve in the garden.
My queen. A phoenix. She had always been my Lilith. My equal."

- "I'd always thought that falling for Sage was the worst mistake of my life. That she would make me weak. That she would snuff the flame that had always burned so hot inside of me. But she is oxygen, constantly fueling me, for better or for worse. She built me higher, made me burn hotter, gave me strength. I'd been through hell-we had gone through hell-but I was appreciative of that. Because I'd never been able to recognize her grace, had never known what sin was. You never really know how damaged you are until you try to love someone."

- "My fire god."
"Fire god, huh?"
"Yup," "Always ready to burn. So bright. If anything happens, I know you'll be there to hand me the match."
"I'll always be there. Always. No matter what happens, you will always have me."

- "It's a love that would be painted in a gruesome light, and the whispers would speak of how sinful it was, the narrative spelled out simply as the wicked child of Satan corrupting Ponderosa Springs' most cherished angel. They would say I crept into her room at night and stole her away to my kingdom of eternal damnation, keeping her here forever. Our story would be a villainous one for as long as we live here. But they don't know what we did. They don't know that she is more than just a flimsy angel. She is a force with the power to destroy anything in her way. A phoenix from the ashes.
The Lilith to my Lucifer. The one I would burn the entire goddamn planet down for. In the opaque darkness, we found a love that could never be contained. So to some, our love would be seen as unholy, an act against God himself, but to us? It's more. It's ours. She was right. Tomorrow the birds will sing, and they will continue to as long as we're together."

The Truths We Burn

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