Never Leave, Never Lie Quotes

“Without music, there's nothing to keep the fear and the shame and the sadness away and all I feel is everything and I don't want to feel anything anymore.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Loving you is the only thing I don't regret," Alek tried very hard to say in English.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“I could forget everything about myself and still know that I love you.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“You expect me to tell the truth, but you’re lying to yourself,” Alek said. “You think you want me, but you don’t. You think I’m worth loving, but I’m not. You say you’ll never leave, but you will.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“It’s a strange feeling…” Alek said. “What is?” Ian sat down beside him and took both of his hands. “Loving someone so much that you wish they never met you.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“But he wanted Ian more than he wanted the stars and trees inside his head, more than music. He would trade all of it away if it meant he could have Ian forever. ”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“I haven't touched anyone, haven’t even looked at anyone like that since I followed you into that alley. Three years. Three years and there’s only been you. There will only ever be you.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“I may have betrayed you in every other way, but my cock and my heart have always belonged to you.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Wait!” Alek begged. Can you leave something with me? Something you’ll have to come back for.  Ian’s brows darted together. “What? Like collateral?”  Please. “You already have it.” Alek wrote a giant question mark and held the clipboard up. “You’re the collateral, Alek. I’ll always come back for you.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Alek was the definition of dishonest. Lies coursed through his veins and slipped into his speech like second nature.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Loving you is the only thing I don’t regret,” Alek tried very hard to say in English.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Deception is survival. People are meant to be manipulated. Hoping is foolish. And above all else, Love is a weakness.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Falling in love with Ian had made Alek weak, and Alek would never forgive him for that. Never.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“It wasn’t the first time Alek drove Ian to aggressive demoing or home improvement. The fact that the Victorian was in such good shape after only one year was a testament to exactly how aggravating Alek could be.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Nothing is ever too broken to be fixed,” his uncle had said.  But he was wrong about that. People and hearts could break and never be fixed again.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Empathy was a muscle that had atrophied under disuse.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Ian discussed each house he had worked on like it was a person with its own secret history, like the simple act of rehabilitating an abandoned house was akin to traveling back in time.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Alek tangled their tongues in a kiss that tasted like salt and the end of everything and it wasn’t enough. Ian could drown him in an ocean of tears and slit their palms in a blood bond, and none of it would ever be enough.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“Alek stalked towards him, his black hair ruffled, sage-green eyes promising revenge. He was tall like Ian, but the similarities stopped there. Alek’s skin was a warm olive, except so pale it was almost sickly-looking—probably because he hardly ever saw the sun—and his body was chiseled in hard angles, sinewy like a big cat that hadn’t had a good meal in a while, and with all the same threat of danger.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie