Tim Burton Quotes Novels & Stories

After seven years of marriage, my husband grew tired of our quiet life and took a college student as his mistress. That fragile, pitiable girl held Alain Roth so completely he didn't come home for an entire month, no matter how I begged. On our son's third birthday, I came to their villa, holding the feverish child and pleading for him to return. Inside, he stayed lost in passion with her. Jeff Roth drew his last breath in my arms while their pleasure echoed through the night. At the funeral, Alain held me and wept, swearing he would return to the family and love only me. I agreed, driven solely by Jeff's dying wish. Four years later, a video from his old kindergarten surfaced, showing Alain with a radiant Mabel Flores and a three-year-old boy. The boy smiled brightly at the camera, lifting a trophy high. "Mom, Dad, we're the happiest family in the world!"

Avery lost everything the day her father betrayed the Silver-Ridge Pack. Branded a traitor. Blamed for her sister’s death. Sold to the very Alpha her father once betrayed. Lucian Draveth is blind. Merciless. A monster whispered about in fear. A man who sees Avery as nothing more than a property. But Avery refuses to submit. “You want a chance, Avery? Fine. Let’s play a game.” His voice was calm. “The main gate is half a mile through the forest. If you reach it and pass through before I lay a hand on you… you are free.” My breath hitches. “And if you catch me?” “Then you stop fighting and come back. Run.” Five minutes. Half a mile. One blind Alpha hunting her through the dark. Avery runs. Not because she believes she’ll win but because she refuses to break. The closer Avery gets to freedom, the more she realizes something is wrong. Lucian is hiding something far worse than cruelty. And when Avery learns why he refuses to let her go, revenge stops being enough. In a world where the Moon Goddess chooses mates, Avery must decide: destroy the monster or survive loving one.

On our seventh anniversary, Damon, the Don of the Voss family, turned what should have been our wedding into a divorce ceremony for the seventh time. I did not scream or break down sobbing. I only stood in the middle of the hall like a clown while his friends laughed at me. "Evelyn, why aren't you laughing? Don't tell us you're actually mad." Damon came over with a frown and gently wiped the tears from my face. "Evelyn, stop crying." "I promise. This is the last time I'll make a joke like this." I looked at him and suddenly remembered what I had overheard outside his study the night before. "Don, this is the seventh time you've made a fool of Evelyn. Aren't you afraid she'll leave?" Damon was silent for a moment. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse. "She won't." "Everyone knows Evelyn can't live without me." "Selene once took a bullet for me. Her health has been poor ever since." "She wanted to see Evelyn fooled seven times. I'm only granting her one last wish." "After this, I'll marry Evelyn properly and make her my Donna. I'll give her the grandest wedding as compensation." I had already been humiliated seven times. No matter how deeply I had loved him, no heart could survive being worn down like that. Damon did not know I was the hidden heir of the Hale family. I had never cared about his title as Don. In three days, I would return to my family and accept the marriage alliance.

During my senior year of high school, I moved into an old house just to save money. Something about the place felt off. At first, it was just things I casually put down disappearing without a trace. Then, random objects that didn't belong to me started appearing around the house. One night, I finished my homework and was about to go to sleep when a girl's tank top suddenly fell from the ceiling. I froze for several seconds. Just as I was about to throw it away, I heard someone cursing out of nowhere. "Who's there? Darn it! What kind of creep steals a tank top?"

Though we've been in love for six years, Arnold Porter, the Chief Legal Officer of the Werewolf Council, has canceled our marking ceremony 66 times. The first time he did so, he claimed that Erna Porter, his adoptive sister, was coughing blood in the middle of her heat. Decked in my gown, I stood in front of the Altar of the Full Moon alone until the moon had disappeared from the skies and everyone had left. The second time the ceremony gets canceled, it was because he suddenly received a message in the middle of the ceremony, saying that Erna was abducted by Rogues. He tore off his robes and shifted into his wolf instantly, rushing to save her, while I was forced to endure the laughter of our guests. Whenever we are to hold a ceremony, Erna will always get into trouble and then seek his help. Finally, when he cancels the ceremony for the 66th time, both my wolf and I give up. I break up with him and leave. Three days after I traverse the borders of the snowy plains riddled with powerful winds that conceal my trace, he seems to go crazy. He sends the elite guard of his pack on a mission just to find me.

Emerald was raised by a single mother. She grows up without a father and as she grows up her hatred for him grows as well. She made a promise to herself that she will go and look for him to avenge her mother who struggle just to provide for her. That hatred did motivate her to fight and be successful in life. When she was at the top she did find him and was able to find a way to get even through his adopted son. When everything went as planned she hesitated since she found herself falling in love with his father's adopted son, Tyler. Will she be able to forgive and forget for the sake of the man she loves? Will they both have a happy ending when Tyler already found out about her hidden agenda and real identity? Now he hates her and everything is complicated since they are siblings in the eyes of the law.

On the day Steven, my husband, died in battle, Luke, my only son, was kidnapped by human traffickers. Wendy, my mother-in-law, cursed at me. My parents blamed me for it. Even the villagers said I deserved it. While I was consumed by grief, Wendy suggested I take in an abandoned baby to continue the family line. Just as I was about to agree to it, words suddenly appeared in front of me. [The villainess wouldn’t ever expect the male protagonist to actually be alive, right? Does she know that he’s with the female protagonist?] [That’s right. Even the news about her son being kidnapped was fake!] I was confused. Before I could make sense of it, I saw more words. [Honestly, the villainess is pretty pitiful. Her husband faked his death because he likes her sister! Even her son isn’t her own flesh and blood.] [That’s not all. The abandoned baby is actually the protagonists’ son! When she brings up the boy and sends him to university, the protagonists will reunite with their son and be a happy family.] [It can’t be helped. It’s her fault for being the villainess. She can only be a stepping stone for the protagonists.] I was stunned. I was only to be a tool for the happiness of Steven and Margaret, my sister? As I carried the abandoned baby I had picked off the road, I sneered. If they wanted me to be their stepping stone, then they could not blame me for playing a little substitution trick.

Daniella never expected to be born as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy CEO. Burdened by the forces arrayed against her, she fights to reclaim her supremacy and legitimate dominance, which she deserves.

​"I gave him ten years. He gave me sixty seconds to get off his property." ​Chloe was the silent genius behind Liam’s multi-billion dollar startup. She was his wife, his partner, and his shadow. But the moment the company went public, Liam handed her divorce papers and threw her out into a thunderstorm—right into the arms of his mistress, Vanessa. ​Left with nothing but a mountain of debt and the clothes on her back, Chloe’s heart stops. But instead of death, she hears a chime: ​[Billionaire Queen System Activated. Host Vital Signs: Critical.] [First Task: Slap the Cheater. Reward: $10,000,000 and 51% of his company.] ​With a limitless Black Card and a System that rewards her for every enemy she humbles, Chloe begins her ruthless ascent. She doesn't just want her life back; she wants to own the city. ​But her sudden transformation catches the eye of Julian Blackwood, the most dangerous man in the underworld and Liam’s greatest rival. Julian doesn't just want her secret—he wants her. ​Now, Chloe is caught in a high-stakes game of corporate warfare and dark obsession. Between a System that demands total domination and a man who refuses to let her go, Chloe must decide: will she be a Queen, or will she be Julian’s most prized possession?

He was robbed of everything—his name, his home, his future. Now he wants it all back. When Timothy’s father died, the family empire should have been his. Instead, Madison Wellman, the mistress in the shadows, emerged with forged papers, ruthless ambition, and the muscle to throw Timothy and his mother into the streets. Penniless and broken, he watched grief consume his mother until he lost her too. That day, Timothy vowed he would return. That day, he vowed Madison would pay. Fifteen years later, Timothy is no longer the boy who was cast out—he is a man of power, wealth, and deadly charm. And his revenge begins with Madison’s most vulnerable weakness— her son, Ethan. Handsome, closeted, and trapped by his mother’s control, Ethan is everything Timothy needs to destroy her from the inside. But Ethan is also something Timothy never expected, someone who awakens feelings he thought long buried. Now Timothy stands at the brink of victory with Madison’s kingdom crumbling, her deceit unraveling, and retribution stands within his grasp. But to take it, he may be compelled to sacrifice the one thing his own heart craves most Will he choose revenge… or succumb to the forbidden attraction that threatens to destroy them both.