Eli > Eli's Quotes

“I’d thought myself free because I didn’t have a physical cage when in fact I’d been trapped by my own mind, by the fears that haunted my days and the nightmares that haunted my nights. I stuck with the safe choices because I thought I wasn’t strong enough for anything else.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“I would never tire of her smiles. Her real smiles, not the ones she showed the public. I’d seen Bridget naked, in fancy gowns, and in lingerie, but she was never more beautiful than when she was herself, stripped of all the pretenses her title forced her to wear.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.”
― Penelope Douglas, Corrupt

“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Maybe the dark was an empty, meaningless existence, but it was the light that could burn you.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“You’re my calm in the soul, crazy in the flesh,”
― Jescie Hall, Hawke

“But what you are to me is something more than any words can explain. If someone found a way to remove you from existence, I would burn the world before making sure my soul found yours in the afterlife.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Liar

“I gave you a chance to walk away and you didn’t take it. Instead, you thought you could touch what’s mine. Fuck what’s mine. For that, there’s no devil in hell or god in heaven who can save you. Burn, motherfucker.”
― Morgan Bridges, Once You're Mine

“Because you’re in my blood, Callie. Underneath my skin. No matter how hard I try, I can’t cut you out without killing myself in the process.”
― Morgan Bridges, Once You're Mine

“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.”
― Nicole Blanchard, Toxic

“Her lips part, pink today, like a shade of her favorite raspberry perfume. A blond strand escapes the rest of her hair and I tuck it behind her ear slowly, letting my fingers linger on her translucent skin. My cock hardens when a red hue covers her cheeks. Fuck. I knew red was my favorite color.”
― Rina Kent, God of Malice

“Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“all the time, feeling like I don’t deserve to be part of any of it, but that I’m hoping to fucking god you’ll let me. That you’ll let me follow you around this earth, wherever you want to go from here on out, because it doesn’t matter how much I love the land and the ranch, I love you more. More than I ever thought was possible for an asshole like me. You own my black fucking heart, and I couldn’t go another day without telling you how deeply I’m in love with you.”
― Elliott Rose, Chasing the Wild

“I love you, Layla. This thing struggling to beat inside my chest when you’re not near, is yours. Whether you want it or not, and I don’t blame you if you never want to see me again… but I had to give you the time and space to achieve this incredible thing you’ve worked so hard for… and I had to come and tell you, had to see your beautiful green gaze fall on me at least one final time, and tell you that every night, these emerald eyes are all I see… all I will ever see will be you.”
― Elliott Rose, Chasing the Wild

“All my water glasses and coffee mugs live on the bottom shelf now. Every morning, I pour myself a black coffee in a cup that still feels like it has your fingers imprinted on it.”
― Elliott Rose, Chasing the Wild

“I told you I couldn’t think of a word to describe what it felt like having you arrive in my life… and all I can think is that you’re my wildflowers after the winter, you’re the first crackle in the fireplace when it heats up, you’re the sun chasing away storm clouds. Baby, you’re my goddamn miracle.”
― Elliott Rose, Chasing the Wild

“What-if can’t coexist with right now,”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“Hair the color of a Raven’s Wing, eyes the color of glaciers,” he whispered.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“The mouth and the heart are connected. That’s why words hurt. I’d never give either to anyone but you.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“He’d turned my name into a prayer, and no matter how untamed and how urgent our lovemaking became, his hands on me, his mouth on me…it all translated to worship.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“There was a time I believed maturity mended the imperceptible fractures of our hearts that couldn’t be physically touched or seen under a microscope. That I’d hit this magic age and poof, suddenly it would all make perfect fucking sense, and life wouldn’t hurt so bad.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“Bad things happen to me sometimes, and good things are taken away because of it. I just don’t know if you’re the good thing taken, or the bad-wrong-thing that’s happened to me.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“You were my antidote and the loss of you had been killing me slowly,”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“This emotional baggage needed to be unpacked before I left Mansfield in my rear-view, and I was on my way to dump it at the feet of the one who’d overpacked the bag in the first place.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“Funny how the better way becomes transparent only after you’ve dipped your toe into the quicksand.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“We were making beautiful what we had eroded, feeding our shared greed to a gluttonous degree.”
― C.P. Harris, Bad Wrong Things

“Roman’s smile isn’t slow or weary; it detonates across his face. But he isn’t looking at his opponent like he’s the prey. He’s looking at me like I’m the one he wants to ruin.”
― Avina St. Graves, Skin of a Sinner

“God, Bella, Bella, Bella. Please. I can’t lose her. I can’t live without her. Fuck, what if I can’t find her once I’m there? I’ll spend the rest of my life looking for her if I don’t get to her in time. There’s no version that ends without Bella by my side.”
― Avina St. Graves, Skin of a Sinner

“Maybe I haven’t made this clear: You have never been just a phase to me; you’ve always been the whole picture. Without you, I am incomplete.”
― Avina St. Graves, Skin of a Sinner

“That’s fine, Princess. You can spend your life searching for a reason to hate me, but the truth is, you hate that you can’t live without me. And you know what? I would rather die knowing you wish I were dead than for you to feel nothing toward me at all.”
― Avina St. Graves, Skin of a Sinner