Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Toxic:
“You want it. You want it so fucking bad I can almost taste it.”
“What we have is dangerous and volatile, but it’s also inevitable.”
“I love myself in his kiss, his touch, his toxic love.”
“You won’t try to kiss me again or come see me,” I say firmly. “I did what you wanted. Now it’s over.” He nods, but I note he doesn’t confirm or deny that he won’t seek me out again. “Think what you want,” he says instead, “but we’re far from over.”
“You seem to think you aren’t my business.” “Probably because I’m not. I’m not sure what makes you think you have the right to interfere, but I don’t need to be saved. I don’t need anything from you.” “That’s where you’re wrong. I think I’m exactly what you need.”
“He’s all the things I know I should run from. All I care about is he’s all the things I know I should run from. All I care about is he makes me feel more alive than I’ve ever felt in my life. With him, I feel like I truly live, like I can breathe.”
“What kind of person wants more from a man like him? What kind of woman aches for another kiss from a criminal?Me.I want more.I want it all.I want it right here.Again. And again. And again.”
“I’m not sure what makes you think you have the right to interfere, but I don’t need to be saved. I don’t need anything from you.”“That’s where you’re wrong. I think I’m exactly what you need.”
“He leans back in his chair, his legs spread and his hands resting on his thighs. Posed that way, he owns every syllable of his nickname.”
“I don’t know how I’m going to manage to get away from him. Even thinking it to myself makes me want to tremble in fear, but I know I have to. What other alternative do I have, though? Let him kill me? I won’t lie to myself and say I hadn’t contemplated that. Just let him end it once and for all. Death would almost be a relief. ”
“my girly parts light up like the Fourth of July.”
“I wouldn’t let you go,” he says against my lips, “but I’d spend every day convincing you to stay.”
“You can’t keep me here forever.” “I can,” he says. “And I will.”
“You seem to think you aren’t my business.”
“Tell me. Admit to me who hurt you, and I’ll leave you alone.”
“It turns out when your life falls to pieces right before your eyes, it isn’t with a bang . . . it’s with a whisper. ”
“my gun within reach,”
“I’m not powerless. I can take care of myself. I’ve killed a man, wounded others, and evaded the police. I’m sure according to the United States government, I’m a criminal and a fugitive. No better than what I considered Gracin when we first met. Then it makes me wonder if I was ever the good person in this story. Maybe I’m not. Maybe I’m the goddamned villain. ”
“He is cataclysmic, and I ache to beg for my own destruction.”
“I lose myself in his kiss, his touch, his toxic love.”
“I don’t care that it’s wrong or that he’s a bad man or that he’s all the things I know I should run from. All I care about is he makes me feel more alive than I’ve ever felt in my life. With him, I feel like I truly live, like I can breathe. ”
“My body still recognizes him on a primal level despite what it’s been through. It’s primordial, instinctual, and I can no more resist how much I want him than I can resist breathing. When had he become as essential to me as life itself? Reconciling needing him with what he’s done . . . I don’t know if it’s possible. ”
“This moment with him is just a reprieve. Tomorrow, things will go back to normal, and I’ll be able to despise him again. ”
“What is broken inside me that I look for love in the worst places? Was it programmed inside me from birth or is it a product of my parent’s neglect? Am I just so fucked up that I’ll take affection wherever I can get it, even if it’s from the worst possible source?”
“The fact that he still, after everything, can make me want him without doing a thing is infuriating. ”
“it all truly was an act. And like the idiot that I was, I fell for it. ”
“I’d much rather have a gun in my face than a sweet-talking, good-looking man who will stab me in the back with false promises. ”
“It turns out when your life falls to pieces right before your eyes, it isn’t with a bang . . . it’s with a whisper.”
“The more I try not to think about him, the more my brain focuses on him. Like an itch that I can’t reach but am dying to scratch.”
“I want it for the way it makes me feel alive for the first time in years. For the way pleasure is my own again. The way my body feels my own again. So, I twine my hands around his neck, and I kiss him. It must have surprised him because he makes a sound against my mouth, and it takes a few seconds for his body to catch up with mine. I like that I’ve thrown him off balance. I like that I have the power to shock him, make him want me. Me.”
