Morbidly Yours Quotes

“Mo chuisle? It means ‘my pulse.’ I never quite understood it before, what it meant to have another person be the d-driving force behind the pump of your blood, but it’s true. Lark, your smile saved me like an emergency transfusion. Your laugh is the song my every blood cell dances to. Your touch revived me from darkness. You are my pulse. You make me feel alive even when I’m surrounded by death.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Who are you, and what have you done with Callum Flannelly?” “Lark, I’m more myself with you than anywhere else.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Tragedy made me appreciate serendipity even more.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You don’t need to pretend. I want to share in your happiness and in your sorrow.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“We show the people we love the ugliest parts of ourselves, and we tell them the truth even when it hurts, because that’s what intimacy is.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You deserve a little graveyard smash.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“But all we can control is how we choose to move through life. With honesty. With bravery. With love. I know you can do it.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“And miss all the moments that send the butterflies loose in your stomach? No way. First date, first kiss, first slow dance. Popping the question and hearing yes. The falling matters, too. Not just the ever after.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Callum had become my haven … and I had become his. It snuck up on me, unplanned and unforeseen, but that didn’t make it any less true.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You think I don’t have regrets? Charlie and I lost years together because of my own pride. We show our partners the ugliest parts of ourselves, and we tell them the truth even when it hurts, because that’s what intimacy is.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Classic. Contemplative Cancer.” How the hell? “Run a background check on me, didya then?” “Pfft. I just did the math. Besides, this”—Lark gestured to my entire form—“screams crustacean. I had you pegged as a water sign from the first time we met.” “I don’t believe in that. And refrain from suggesting you’ve pegged me, please.” “Would you let me run your natal chart? You’re a Scorpio moon, I bet.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Tradition is important, but so is personal agency.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You’ve been telling yourself lies for too long, darlin’. It’s time to un-learn them.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“I will put you in your grave with a smile on my face if you say another word about that woman who is a hundred times your equal.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“I feel safe with you, Cal.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Lark was beautiful. And not only objectively, based on facial geometry or social consensus. Beautiful to me. Utterly captivating.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Lark selected a table near the stage. I’d have preferred to sit further back. Hell, I’d have preferred to be at home, but had promised myself that I’d make an effort.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Rehearsing the words in my head over and over, I practiced my order. Interactions with strangers always spiked my blood pressure.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“I had my patience tested. I’m negative.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Everything changes in this world. Not always for the worse. Wounds heal, if you let them.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“What I would endure personally and what I would tolerate on behalf of others were two different things.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“- Você saiu com cartas de merda no jogo da vida. Às vezes isso acontece com as melhores pessoas. Não significa que você não mereça ser amada.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“— Eu não sabia que podia machucar tanto se importar com alguém.
— Você está passando por um luto — disse Deirdre enquanto oferecia uma xícara fumegante; eu a aceitei com gratidão. — Perder sua amizade. O futuro que você visualizou. É uma forma válida de luto.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“— Nós mostramos às pessoas que amamos as partes mais feias de nós e dizemos a verdade a elas mesmo quando dói, porque é isso que significa ter intimidade.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Mas porque nenhuma outra cidade na Terra era o lar de Callum Flannelly. Nenhum lugar poderia ser chamado de lar sem ele. A percepção me atingiu na cabeça como uma marreta de madeira da Acme.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“If making a fool out of myself made her smile, I’d do it every day. To hell with my dignity.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You’ve kept a list of baby names in your Notes app for years.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“He’s hot in a ‘Damien Rice song’ kinda way.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You make me want. I’ve never wanted anyone like this,”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Touch yourself. Show me how you like it.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours