Bane Quotes

“affection shouldn’t be asked for.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I think we need matching ass tattoos.'
'Why? Do you have another cool story?'
'Yeah, you.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I would spread, and conquer, and be remembered, so that other women would not end up like me.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I've handed you everything else I own, including my heart, which I don't want back.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“If you get anywhere near her again, I will personally make sure it will be the last time you step foot in this town. Your family will be driven out of here. Your college dream will be dead. I will unleash every ounce of power I have in this town to make sure your lives are a continuous, Freddie-Kruger-style nightmare. Fair warning: I’m very good at nightmares. I’ve lived a different life from yours, and know what you rich kids can survive…and what you cannot.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“See a person that’s not me ➔ put myself between him/her and Snowflake ➔ make sure he/she doesn’t get anywhere near her until we are out of the room.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Do you want me?” I coaxed. “Want you?” The table nearly flew to the other side of the room from the impact of his slap on it. “I’m way beyond want. I’m somewhere between need and desperate. And I don’t like that place, Jesse. I don’t like it at all.” “Take me, then.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I thought I was helping both of us. Then I got to know you and SurfCity didn’t matter anymore. Bane You mattered. You MATTER. You’re the only thing that matters, Snowflake.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Sometimes the sun is a liar. Sometimes it's out, even though it is cold.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I was blessed in so many ways.
Finding Gail.
Finding a job.
Finding literature, and words, and sentences that inspired me to be better, both to other people and to myself.
Finding Bane.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I'm here for you, Snowflake. I'll be sitting on the sidelines cheering for you because you're the strongest girl I know, but I'll also be there if you need me. Needing someone wouldn't make you any less strong, Jesse. It would just make you human.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I love you, Roman 'Bane' Protsenko. Not because you take away my loneliness, but because you gave me strenght.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“The queen is the most powerful piece,' he hissed. 'Don't let the pawns bring you down.'
I wanted to ask him if he was my king.
Because I knew how to play chess very well.
But the answer was crystal clear to me.
Roman 'Bane' Protsenko was my knight. The piece of the chess that needed to be moved sooner than the pawns, the bishops, and the queens.
The piece that could have saved me.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“High school is a great place to murder a soul. The deities don’t care, and the mortals are too busy trying to survive.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I swallowed hard and realized that I was looking at the man I was in love with. The man who was set to ruin me.
It was in that moment that I realized that I'd survived many things, but Roman Protsenko was probably not going to be one of them.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“We'd helped each other tear down the walls, and I hoped, with every fiber of my body, that what we'd find underneath them wasn't rotten.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“The queen is the most powerful piece,' he hissed. 'Don't let the powns bring you down.'
I wanted to ask him if he was my king.
Because I knew how to play chess very well.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Okay, now I was ninety-nine percent sure I’d grown a pussy and actually contemplated going to the restroom to check that my dong was still intact. And”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I grabbed the bun on top of my head and cut it, throwing it to the sink and turning on the water with the elastic band still on.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“She actually smiled a real smile for the first time, and holy fucking shit, Jesse Carter needed to smile for a goddamn living. She could very possibly bring about world peace, and I wasn't even entirely exaggerating.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“What would it take for you to have coffee with me?” He breathed hard, picking up where we’d left off. Last time, I told him he’d need to save my life. I guess he just had. “For you to tell me why you want to do this.” “I need to fix you,” he said, his greens on my blues. To. Fix. You.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Maybe love wasn't about feeling happy and whole. Maybe love was about breaking so the person you cared for would feel a little more whole.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Fuck ’em. Fuck ’em to death. Fuck this town, and its preppy, judgmental residents, and every idiot who looks at us funny. Don’t you get it? We’re the outliers. The rejects. We’re free. Free to do whatever the hell we want, because it won’t matter. We’ll never fit in here, so we don’t have to try. We’re liberated from all this bullshit.” He motioned around us with his hand. “They can’t hurt you if you don’t give them permission to. So don’t.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Come on, buddy. The maze is fun." I tug at the leash. "I did unholy things to your future mom there more times than I can count."

"Jesse!" I call out to her, which prompts her breathless giggles, the ones that float straight to my dick. I know where to find her. In the center of the snowflake. "Stay where you are. I'm coming to get you."

I'm praying the Labrador puppy behind me won't bark and shit all over my surprise. Especially literally.

"Are you panting?" She laughs harder, and I shoot the pup a you're-making-me-look-bad frown, trying hard not to crack up. Dude is killing my swag. For a cute thing, he sure sounds like a chain-smoking swine.

"Yeah." I crack my gum. "Gotta work on my cardio. I could use some help."

"You're getting help twice a day, sometimes three on weekends.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I fucked plenty of women for money. Unfucking them, though? That wasn’t my expertise.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“I know some words, though.' . . .

'Let’s hear them.'

'Suka blyat. Horosho. Kak dela. Pizdets. Privet.'

'Those were all curses and pleasantries. Your Russian family must be really fucking passive-aggressive.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Stop doing this."

"Doing what?"

"Offer me hope. Faith is a dangerous thing. It drives you to try, and when you try, you fail.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“My father had once said that affection shouldn't be asked for. It is not a reward, but a necessity.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“Snow White waited for the prince. You’ll be the one saving yourself in this story.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane

“In my mind, we didn’t have all that dead space between us, and our voices didn’t echo against the nothingness of the empty night, because I wasn’t so broken and scared. “I want to fucking save you.” “But—” I started. He cut me off. “They called you a whore. What they did to you is inexcusable. You’re going to be saved, hear me? You’re going to be saved, because the other girl couldn’t be saved.”
― L.J. Shen, Bane