Stalked by Seduction and Shadows (Eternal Obsession, #1)

by Maggie Sunseri

For soulmate love—however dark, powerful, & all-consuming.

Live. Burn. And never, ever, let them dim your fucking light.

“Stick to the real love. The kind that fills you up. The other kind is merely manipulation of the highest degree, and it will leave you emptier and lonelier than you ever thought possible.”

“I’m merely trying to protect you from the regret of lost hours on dull mediocrity, disappointment, and selfish, lackluster performances. I’d rather you suffer at my hands, personally. In far more thrilling ways.”

will ruin all others for you, Scarlett,” he said. “Anything else but us will only feel empty, meaningless, soulless. I will be the only thing you can see, the only being worthy of touching you, of seeing all of you.”

“That is what I will demand of you, and what you will eventually give freely. All of you. The parts that you hide, the parts that you hate, the parts that others have made you ashamed of, the parts that you flaunt and wield as weapons.”

I will bring you more depraved ecstasy than you could ever conceive. I will bring you to the edge of your limits, flood you with so much pleasure and sensation that your body will give out, and then I’ll do it all over again. I will find and exploit your every weakness and use them to both satisfy and torment you endlessly. I will fuck your perfect mind even harder and deeper than I will fuck your divine body. I will make you the best, strongest, most powerful version of yourself. I will destroy you and remake you in my image as your Master and God.”

“There are many people in this world who would love nothing more than to clip your wings. Stop doing it for them. Soar instead.”

“I’m tired of being alone,” she whispered. “Exhausted from it, really.” She was deflated, her light dimming to gently glowing embers. “I don’t want to absorb another wound by myself. I can’t.”

“There is no competition in trauma. None of it is ever better or worse than any other. Trauma is not what happens to you. It’s what happens inside of you as a result of what happens to you.”

Family is the stage upon which generational pain is reenacted over and over again, the same story with different characters.”

“She’s your deepest weaknesses embodied. She’s your humanity.”

“You should be terrified of how hard your screaming makes me.”

Besides death, suffering is what we fear most, what most beings try to avoid at all costs. The stronger are the ones that accept that all pain, emotional and physical, are the most natural and inevitable parts of our existence. Those who find a way to make suffering beautiful again are the strongest of all.”

“You deserve so much more than what life has handed you, Scarlett. Don’t accept the half-love that you’ve grown accustomed to. Only accept the full, staggering devotion that you deserve. It’s what we all deserve. To feel wholeheartedly chosen, desired, secure, and nurtured. Anything less is theft.”

Preachhh Snow

“Maybe you acted out of vengeance too, but your thirst for retribution was born out of love,” I said gently. “And grief, which is love’s natural consequence.”