This dark romance duology might consist of shameless smut, plenty of trigger warnings, dark themes, and an even darker main character, but it has some very memorable and heartfelt quotes. Zade Meadows—or Zaddy as we like to call him—has some love lines that will make you swoon and wish you were Adeline Reilly. No matter what type of reader you are, or which side of BookTok your fyp is on, a spicy book must always be intoxicating, all-consuming, and at times, destructive.
And if you are into quotes, check out some lines by the OG morally gray hero, aka Heathcliff, here!
Let’s dive into this little mouse and kitty-cat chase!
Most Swoon-Worthy Haunting Adeline Quotes
If only Zaddy were not deranged, he’d be the perfect book boyfriend. Because why are these Zade Meadows quotes so toe-curling?
“When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“Baby, you rule the fucking kingdom, and I will gladly bow to you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“You are in my church where I am your God, and you are my equal. I’m not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you—you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“I guess I wanted to see roses all over your house, too. Maybe because you feel like home.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“I’ll have her because she’s the first thing that made me feel something good in so long, and I’ve become obsessed with keeping it. I don’t have very many something goods in my life, and I don’t care if it makes me selfish for wanting to hold on to it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“Let me feel you fall in love.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“There will never be an end to me and you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“That man ate the soul out of my body, and I don’t think I’ve gotten it back yet.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“I don’t care if I need to set this world on fire until there’s no one left but you and me. The world will burn around us, and I’ll gladly live in chaos with you as long as the only person that is a danger to you is me.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“I’m going to burn the entire fucking world down until I find her, and I don’t care who gets burnt.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“I may own every breath in your body, but make no mistake, Adeline, you own mine, too. I am yours to command. To bend and break. To mold and manipulate. Do you think that makes me weak? Or do you think I'm strong enough to admit that even though my body can physically live on without you, I would never get my fucking soul back?”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“‘What you’ve forgotten is that the heart beating inside your chest isn’t fucking yours,” he snarls. ‘It’s mine. And if my heart has stopped working, then pull that trigger, little mouse. Kill the rest of me. I’m nothing if I’m not the reason you breathe.’”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“‘I love you, Zade. Sometimes I can’t fucking stand it,’ I say, my voice raspy and uneven. ‘But it was the only thing that kept me alive. You saved me. Even when we were apart, you saved me. And I hope to God you never stop hunting me.’”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“You’ll always be safe with me, little mouse. Always.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“You’re brave. Incredibly brave, and a goddamn survivor, and it’s admirable as fuck. You have no idea how proud of you I am. But you’re also impulsive, and reactive, and I refuse to lose you again, do you hear me? I won’t. Which means that you have to listen to me, and you cannot go off and do your own thing because you think you’re helping. We’re a team, baby. Got it?”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Forever and always, baby,”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“A dark god that embodies destruction and death, yet I’ve never felt more in love.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“If she were to die… the world would die with her.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“I want to claw out of my own skin, if only it means Addie will be waiting for me on the other side.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Sometimes, I wish I’d never met you. Because now that I have, now that I’m in love with you, I’ll never be able to carve you out. You said I’d bleed out before that’d ever happen, and you were right. And I hate you for that.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
Most Shamelessly Sinister Haunting Adeline Book Quotes
“Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“Because then I wouldn’t be true to myself, little mouse. I love that I scare you. I love that you try to run from me. The push and pull. The cat and mouse game. I fucking love it. And I think a part of you does, too.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“If my redemption resides somewhere within you, then I will spend the rest of my life searching for it inside of you.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“‘Remember this moment,’ he growls deeply, withdrawing to the tip before pushing deeper inside of me. ‘Because the next time I fuck you, you will be deeply in love with me, Adeline. I’m your stalker and a murderer, and you will love me anyways.’”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“His eyes are tracing my curves like they’re scripture, and he’s a sinner that is searching for proof of a God that he no longer can hear.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“You don’t need a cop to get me in handcuffs, baby. I’ll let you do anything you want to me.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“‘Oh, God—’ she sucks in a sharp breath. ‘That’s right, I am your God.’”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“And I will gladly cross every single line if it means making this girl mine. If it means forcing her to be mine.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“You haunt me. It’s only fair I return the sentiment.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“‘Did she cry out for God?’ he pushes. ‘Yes,’ Xavier spits, and fuck, I’m falling apart. I thrust against Zade’s hand, rolling my hips mindlessly, the bliss eroding my entire being. ‘Good,’ he says, a grin in his voice. ‘That means she was crying out for me.’”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“We’re going to burn down the world together.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Crawl to me.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Eyes on me, little mouse.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“You really want to cause mass extinction for those names? Moan them, little mouse, I dare you. Whichever ones you choose, not a single man by that name will fucking exist anymore. How about we start with Chad? We can definitely live without the Chads in the world.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
Raw and Unfiltered Truths from Haunting Adeline
“Sometimes the happiest people are the saddest.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“Love is an enigma, and it’s redefined every time someone says it.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“His voice is full of dark promises and dangerous beginnings.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“The moment I saw her sitting in that bookstore, working to hide her nerves and anxiety, there I was—a grown-ass man, falling in obsession at first sight.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“After a few seconds, she continues. ‘I admire you more than I can say for being one of far too few people willing actually to do something to save them. The world needs more people like you, Zade.’ ‘Maybe,’ I murmur, giving in and placing a soft kiss on the corner of her lips. ‘But all I need is you.’”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline
“Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Zade may be Hades, but the dark God has never been known to bow for anyone but his woman.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“I need therapy.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline (And don’t we all agree!)
“Scars only serve as reminders of what we’ve survived, not what killed us.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“I never understood why the sickest of humanity go out of their way to appear the prettiest. You can throw glitter on a snake, but the bitch still bites.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“‘Happiness is fleeting. All that matters is that they’re living their life the way they want to.’ You believe that?’ I ask, facing him. ‘That happiness is fleeting?’ He shrugs, tossing the last bite of his cone into his mouth, and chews as he contemplates something. ‘Absolutely,’ he says finally. ‘It’s not something solid you can hold on to. It’s vapor in the wind, and all you can do is inhale it when it’s near and hope it comes around again when it blows away.’
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“You can’t truly love someone if you’ve never hated them. Two sides to a double-edged sword, and they both cut fucking deep.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“You need to figure out your morals, and what you’re okay living with. Not what you’ve been taught, but what you feel in your gut.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
“Fuck, it’s just like being addicted to the pain of getting a tattoo. Every bite of the needle you want to run away, but you stay because the outcome is pure fucking bliss.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline
In a Nutshell
If you are looking for a dark romance book, Adeline and Zade will give you a run for your money. If it’s your first time reading dark romance, then as dark romance readers, we advise you to start on something book club-appropriate and ease into it, plenty of suggestions on BookTok #darkromance. Our special recommendation would be Penelope Douglas’ series. Read our post on Devil’s Night reading order, and thank us later!
For our seasoned dark romance lovers, we suggest you pick up your Kindle and give Haunting Adeline a chance.
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Always living in her own enchanted little world, Christina discovered the magic that can be hidden within the pages of a book when one dares to take a closer look from a tender age. An avid reader, she is constantly inspired to delve into the secrets woven between the lines and challenges herself to find her own voice amidst the chaos. She is a dedicated fan of the classics, but the supernatural creatures that have tormented readers for years are her kryptonite. The mastery it takes to infuse the author's essence, molded by the era they grew up in to their innermost desires fascinates her. Undoubtedly, putting her passion and knowledge on paper has a mesmerizing allure on her, and following the steps of so many other dreamers before her she wishes to leave her mark in the literary world. Guided by T.S Eliot’s haunting words: “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” she intends to wreak havoc in the minds of her future readers.
