The Scattered Bones Quotes

“I will love you until I am nothing but dust, and even then, I’ll still love you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I was untouched, untainted, unmarred. Even my thoughts were pure, but staring at his smile was an unadulterated sin.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Every night I spend with you, I love you more,” he continued. “I’m filled with broken and jagged edges, but your softness and warmth fit perfectly between those sharp pieces. You make me whole. You’re what my life was missing, and the longer I stay at your side, the more I love you. Varas may be the god I’ve pledged to, but you’re who I want to swear my future to. You’re the altar I pray at, the deity I worship, and I would sacrifice my life for you, but you don’t belong to me. You never have, and you never will. You’ve belonged to Hreinasta since birth, and I can’t watch the person I treasure most in this world lose herself to a selfish goddess.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I don’t love you,” he growled as he angled his hips to hit the spot that unleashed the stars. “This isn’t love. Love is too simple a word for what I feel. The world could end. Ages could pass. The gods could die”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I’ve never seen anyone as beautiful as you. I mean this in the most respectful way, but you are divinely lovely. I’m almost ashamed to share the same air as you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I’ll want you until the day I die.” “I’ll want you even in death, Sellah. There’s no afterlife, but that doesn’t matter. I’ll love you until I’m dead in the dirt, then I’ll love you until my body is nothing but bones. And when my bones fade to dust coating the earth, I’ll still want you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I could live forever in your embrace and die an old man between your legs,”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“The Stranger wraps his muscular arms around me.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“There’s nothing on this earth or in the heavens as perfect as you. Your beauty is unmatched”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Take these to remember me by.” “I need nothing to remember you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I don’t want to take anything from you.” Conviction fortified his voice. “I want to give everything to you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I’ll want you even in death”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Love is too simple a word for what I feel. The world could end. Ages could pass. The gods could die, and I would still adore you. You’ve been braided so deeply into my heart that I no longer exist without you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“When my bones are nothing but dust coating the earth, I’ll still want you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“He simply sat there, consuming the molecules surrounding him like he owned everything in this room. Including me.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I’ll want you even in death, Sellah. There’s no afterlife, but that doesn’t matter. I’ll love you until I’m dead in the dirt, then I’ll love you until my body is nothing but bones. And when my bones fade to dust coating the earth, I’ll still want you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I’ve finally found his second severed body part”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I’ll love you until I’m dead in the dirt, then I’ll love you until my body is nothing but bones. And when my bones fade to dust coating the earth, I’ll still want you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I love you, Sellah,” he whispered into my hair. “You own me. All of me. Forever.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“You are my goddess.” His low admission rumbled through his ribs, vibrating against my skin. “You are what I pray to, what I worship, what I adore.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I have scars from those who tried, but as the cycles passed, less and less could wound me, but your tears? They hurt worst of all. Out of everyone in my life, you have the power to hurt me the most.” “Why?” His words alarmed me. “Because I finally found a soul that sings to mine, a friend unlike anyone I’ve ever met, and I made you cry. I can’t take you away from here. I cannot touch you, and in a cycle, I’ll lose you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“In the moon’s light, I finally saw him in clear definition, and the sight ruined me.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“don’t love you”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I love your face when you study me,” Kaid said with an unsteady voice. “This must be how the gods feel when worshiped.” I lifted my eyes to his and then lowered my lips to his chest”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“We aren’t two people”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I will love you until my death,” Kaid promised. “And then I’ll love you from the grave until I’m dust. When your consciousness returns after she abandons your vessel decades from now”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Scream for me”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Good girl. Eyes on me,” Kaid commanded”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“This isn’t love. Love is too simple a word for what I feel. The world could end. Ages could pass. The gods could die”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“You feel like death and salvation and euphoria all at once.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones