Jan Agaton > Jan's Quotes

“Love, after all, was often made not of shiny things but practical ones. Ones that grew old and rusted only to be repaired and polished.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“In your twenties, separation can take an entire year, but if one of you lacks the courage, you can add two years more to the count. After forty, it takes at least ten years to separate. Ten years between the moment you realize it’s not working anymore and the moment you decide to leave.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and saddened. When I love, I become harsh, serious, intolerant. A heavy shadow settles over my relationships. I love and want to be loved with so much gravitas that it quickly becomes exhausting (for me, for the other person). It’s always an unhealthy kind of love.”
― Maud Ventura, My Husband

“Behold my field of fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it, and thou shalt see that it is barren.”
― Bianca Marais, The Witches of Moonshyne Manor

“I want to gain immortality because of my brain and not because of the potential of my womb.”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

“Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

“I don’t know who you are or what you’re doing, but I’m having a conversation with Winnie,” Skyler said, standing taller.
“And I’m here to give her an orgasm before dinner. Let’s find out which one of us she’d rather have stick around.” ”
― Devney Perry, Indigo Ridge

“She’d told me that one day, she hoped I’d find a man who’d fight with me. Who’d love me even when he wanted to strangle me. Who’d never quit fighting because what we had was worth a few angry words.”
― Devney Perry, Indigo Ridge

“You lost her.” Griffin’s voice had an edge unlike anything I’d heard before. An edge that made me glad I was standing on his side, not the opposing. “You fucked up and lost her. She’s mine. And I won’t fuck it up.”
― Devney Perry, Indigo Ridge

“Emotions I was forced to keep hidden for fear of looking possessed by evil, as girls were often perceived when they felt too much.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“I want you. I want you so desperately that I’d kill anything with a pulse just to have you for one night. This insatiable craving I feel …” A muscle in his jaw twitched with the tension in his words and he squeezed my hand. “I can’t fucking breathe. I ache for you, Maevyth. Believe me when I say this.” But he didn’t bother to say why he hesitated.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“Hands gripped my face as he held me imprisoned in that breathless moment, then pressed his forehead to mine. “I’ll never know what in seven hells inspired the universe to send you to me, Maevyth.” “Some might call it a punishment,” I said, smiling. “If this is punishment, then I welcome an eternity of suffering.” The kiss that followed was gentle and teasing in the way he merely brushed his lips across mine. “You consume me entirely, little moon witch.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“Do I still annoy you?” she asked. “Endlessly.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“I wouldn’t consider reading books in solitary the worst scenario.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“No. You pray to a god that doesn’t listen, and you’re shocked when he doesn’t come to save you.”
― Keri Lake, Anathema

“I would drape my own soul over her body to protect her from eyes like mine.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Susannah, since the day I met you, I have wanted to let you know that you are a spill of gleaming gold on my otherwise dull and pointless world.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“People are grief vampires. They just want to suck on your sorrow, feed on your fear, and feast on your failures. It makes them feel better about themselves. What I”
― Alice Feeney, My Husband's Wife

“It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone