Alter Arlo Quotes

“Do you see that we are not the same? That life can move in different lanes and still get to the same place? That baggage can be heavy, but it strengthens us to carry it? That light and dark are but shades of grey. You, Cadoc, are our shade of grey.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“I’m scared of losing you. Of missing you. Of wanting you more than you want me. Of pushing you away when you get tired of my phobias. Of having you and losing you in the same lifetime. I…I don’t think I’d survive it.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“We’ll figure this out,” I told him. “Together.” I smacked his cheeks. “I fucking pick you too, Zaden. Every goddamn time. I pick you.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“When he howled at the sun instead of the moon, I howled with him until his mouth captured the sound and shared it with me.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Night and day don’t matter in perpetual darkness,” he said, his fingers drumming along the column of my throat. “I can be a daymare as much as a nightmare.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Traps are easy to set when hunters forget they’re prey.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Do you feel me?” “Savagely.” “Is it enough?” “It’s everything.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“I stared into his eyes and gave him my grief, my anger, and my hopelessness. Then I showed him my newly sparked hope and gave him that, too. I gave him my sick desires, access to my dreams, permission to invade my mind, and acceptance that he was growing like cancer in my heart.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Forever the three of us.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“And when my venom infects your blood and turns it black, I will throw you into your lover’s arms so he can save you.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“It was like an exorcism. I was the demon that was being expelled. I think I needed it.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“I’m not enough of someone to have a thing anymore.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Cadoc was trying to change, to love him more tenderly, to stop being rough with him because he knew he deserved better, but Zan wanted the kind of love that Cadoc freely gave. Not some muted fake version. I love you, Cadoc. Don’t stop.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Want to haunt him?” “No,” Zade said. “Too late,” Keiran told him. “You already do. Every day. Every time he sees you. Every time you speak, move, walk or talk, you haunt him. Just like you haunt yourself.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Wherever this life took us, we’d go together because we were two pin-pricked voodoo dolls, tied together, feeling each other’s pain in different places.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“When the worst of it subsided, my entire self gave out, and I crashed to my knees in front of Keiran, bowing before this god of sick health and worshipping all the ways he broke me.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“Chaos. Serenity. Danger. Bravery. Safety. Love. Lust. Regret. Sleepiness.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“I am chained to freedom.” “Isn’t freedom supposed to be a good thing?” “Not when you want to belong to someone.” “Who do you want to belong to?” “Nothing.” Me. I was nothing.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“I wanted to be a poet.” “What are you now?” “Half.” “Half what?” “Half of everything. Nothing whole.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo

“I see him but do not know him. I feel him but cannot touch him. I follow him but cannot catch him.”
― Nordika Night, Alter Arlo