The Thief and the Painter Quotes

“Looking into those eyes had felt like drowning, and it was then that I’d realized air was overrated.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Looking into those eyes had felt like drowning, and it was then that I’d realized air was overrated. In the beginning, it had been obsession at first sight. But over the years, when other emotions, volatile emotions, came into play, I finally got a true grasp on what I was feeling. Love. It had always been love; I just didn’t recognize it for what it was.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Because it was on that fateful day that I saw something that I knew I had to call my own. Something that I didn’t wanna have to share with anyone. Something that was mine. That was the day I met Amelia Carrow.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“The sounds she makes are like vibrant colors, each one unique and breathtaking. Whimper; blue. Moan; yellow. Scream; red.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“It’s still you, me, and this heartbeat, except now, it’s this heartbeat.” I say.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“How could you love me this much?” she asks, voice filled with wonder.

“How could I not?” I reply simply.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“In the beginning, I thought what I felt for you was just an obsession. And in many ways, it was. You haunted me, day in and day out. I ate, slept, and breathed you.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“You walked into that room and looked at me with these eyes”. I run my thumb over her cheek, beneath one of the eyes in question. “They were so bright when they met mine, but I could see a darkness beneath that called to my own. Then your mother said something to you and with one blink, the darkness nearly snuffed out the light. I knew, if manipulated in just the right way, that light would shine brighter than any jewel I’d ever stolen.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’m going to give her the space and time she needs to heal and hope that during that process, she realizes that our fate lines were destined to intersect. That those lines run deep throughout the body and straight to our hearts. My line to her heart and her line to mine, and I have to give her time to figure that out on her own so that when she’s ready, she can reach out and tug on those lines, to bring me back to her.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“If I wasn’t a person that believed in fate before, I am now. It was fate that brought Amelia into my life when I needed her most. It was fate for me to fall in love with her before I even really knew what love was. It was fate that saved her life and subsequently, mine.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Linii sud'by perepleteny syurprizami.” Fate lines are twisted with surprises.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“You can’t leave me now. You never told me you love me. If I’m everything, then so are you. You’re supposed to give me a lifetime to show you that.” Remembering the painting, I say, “If I have your heart and it beats for me, then I say when it stops. And that day isn’t today. Do you hear me??”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Do you remember what I told you?” I ask, gaze boring into hers. The beautiful green that I love so much appears dull and unfocused now. “I told you, there’s no place God could take you that I wouldn’t follow. Do you understand? If your heart stops, so will mine. It’s just you, me, and this heartbeat, remember? There’s nothing in the world more important right now than keeping that heartbeat going.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“As I take a slow inhale, drinking in that scent that’s so uniquely hers, I feel her exhale a heavy breath of her own. I breathe in, she breathes out. We’re two halves of the same whole. Our parts just don’t work properly unless we’re together.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Remembering the other night, when we lay in bed together and she put her ear over my chest to listen to my heart, I catch her eye again before saying, “It’s just you, me, and this heartbeat.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Call it intuition. I meant it when I said we had more in common than you think. We’ve both been broken and whittled down by life, the pieces scattered to the wind. The person that could fix you is right here in this city, nearly within your grasp. I need to find mine. And you’re gonna help me. Do we have a deal?”

Sappy metaphors aside, I understand exactly what he’s after now. A woman. Whatever he needs me to steal, he thinks it will lead him to her.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“That type of pain is fleeting. I’ve had that pain, off and on, all my life. That pain, I can tolerate. If I’d have left, a piece of me would’ve been left behind. I would’ve been out there in the world, going through the motions. But my heart…my heart would’ve still been sitting outside that bathroom door, listening to the sound of the shower and waiting for Brittany Spears to start.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Did you know, I used to listen to you sing in the shower? When you’d get under the spray and start belting out 90’s pop hits, I’d slide down the wall outside the bathroom door and just sit on the floor and listen to you sing.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Because when all’s said and done, I’d allow her to walk me straight through the gates of Hell, as long as she was holding my hand.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Uh uh, Mia. Every sound from your pretty little mouth belongs to me. I wanna hear what my cock is doing to you. Tell me what you feel. Paint me a picture, baby.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’m not big on religion but the way he groans out my name in return makes it sound like a prayer. I have one last coherent thought before all sense leaves me and that’s that maybe Heaven is real and it just so happens to be wherever he is.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’m gonna come inside you, Mia. And then I’m gonna watch my cum run out of you before I use my fingers to push it back inside where it belongs. By the time I’m done with you, you’re gonna wake up tomorrow wondering if my baby is already growing inside you.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“You’re mine.” Thrust. “This body is mine.” Thrust. “This pussy is mine.” Thrust.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“The green of her eyes shine bright from her fresh face, like a front porch light that she’s left on for me to find my way home. She’s never looked more beautiful.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I have the fleeting thought to check to see if she’s wearing panties before we leave. If she is, she’ll be taking them off. They’ll only get in the way.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“The only fear I want her to feel from me is in the bedroom.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’ll steal the painting, collecting her work as though they’re pieces of her broken heart, that I intend to glue back together. And I guess, in a way, they are. And once I have all the pieces and it’s fully functioning again, I’ll offer it back to her in the hopes that she’ll tell me I can keep it.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Some subconscious part of me whispers that my heart chose his, long before my head ever recognized a decision had been made.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“He called me beautiful in the shower but lying here, just on the cusp of sleep, I’ve never seen anything more breathtaking. The sight of him rivals any piece of art I’ve ever made or seen.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I love the way you smell. That scent follows me everywhere. I even smell it in my sleep.”, he murmurs against my skin.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter