The Fishermen Quotes

“I wanted to shout for him to stop kissing me like he’d rather die than to tear his lips away from me. To stop touching me like he wanted to rip my skin away to get to the important parts of me. To stop making me believe that I’m something more than what I am when he gazed at me. But saying any of that would’ve required the ability to breathe, and right then, my every breath belonged to him.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“Okay,” I whispered, even while knowing that this would be the moment I lived to regret. The moment I stayed.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“You shouldn’t let anyone get away with giving you less than you’re worth,”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“It burns away at our core until we can taste the acidic burn of it at the backs of our throats, and the thought of snuffing out that flame completely feels deadly.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“I would be his ocean, and he would fucking yearn for me.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“I needed him to spell it out, to write it out, to fucking bleed it out.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“Wolves didn’t want to eat other wolves, they wanted to feast on lambs.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“I love how the sun looks when it rises around you, when it makes room for you.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen

“He fucked me like the clock was winding down, like the world was coming to an end and he’d be damned if it did so without him claiming me thoroughly one last time.”
― C.P. Harris, The Fishermen