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

“The Stranger wraps his muscular arms around me.”
― 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

“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

“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 even return when you’re old and grey and Hreinasta abandons you for another. It may take a while, but I’ll always come for you.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Tears battled my will as I watched her pray. I craved her affection, her attention, her acknowledgment, but she offered none. I was an object to her, and it carved a jagged hole in my chest. I didn’t even need her to hug me. I simply hoped she would meet my gaze and ask me how I was, but she left with a prayer and a bow. Both aimed at the altar and not her daughter.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Kaid”
― 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

“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

“If it’s too painful for you, you don’t have to tell me.” I offered. “I only meant I didn’t want you to hide from me.” “I want to tell you.” His expression swallowed me whole. “I want you to know everything about me. I want you in every part of my being. You’re the only person I have.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“Not even death can part us, for we are one.”
― 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

“I can do this because his love gave me faith.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“All I know is I love you, and I think that’s enough for now.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones

“I crave a life filled with love. Not the obsession with beauty or prestige, but genuine affection.”
― Nicole Scarano, The Scattered Bones