Worth the Trouble Quotes

“Not a room,” Lili says, cupping my jaw in her hand. “You can have all of it. Make it your home.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“Then tell me, does this heart belong to someone else, Lili?” I ask her, like I did before but with different intentions. She shakes her head. “Then make room for me.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“You can keep my heart, Lili,” Rome says, kissing me again on the side of my temple and resting his forehead on the pillow beside me. “Once you leave, I’m not going to need it, anyway.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“Birds dance in the trees and it feels a little like the fairytales I never bothered myself with. If that’s the case, Lili’s the princess in the tower, and I’m the villain who isn’t allowed to keep her. Who definitely isn’t allowed to taste her. But she tastes like mine.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“Because I’ve got two weeks left with Lili, and the hourglass is already draining. On one end is heaven and the other is hell, but for the first time in my life, I’m content in the middle. Purgatory.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“And I couldn’t be more excited or scared. Because Rome wants to destroy me, and I want to let him.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“I fuck her like I hate her, and need her, and can’t get enough of her. I fuck her like it’s the last thing I’m going to do before I walk through the gates of hell.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“You were wrong,” I tell her, pulling my hand out of her on an exhale. “There is something left in you, and I’m going to be the one to take it.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“The good girl inside me crumbles to pieces. She’s tired, and starving, and desperate for a taste.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble

“Maybe everything I’ve read about Rome is just that—rumors. Maybe he really is a gentleman. But as soon as the thought crosses my mind, Rome swings open his front door and I step directly into a wide open living space. And right dead center are two built-in stripper poles. I had it right the first time. If this were a fairytale, Rome wouldn’t be my hero. Not by a long shot.”
― Eva Simmons, Worth the Trouble