Mariposa Quotes

“Baby, you and I will never be out of time. What we have together is infinite. Even when we’re nothing but phantoms with beatless hearts, we will always be perfectly intertwined because you were made for me.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“You are my beautiful ruin,”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“It’s a part of life. We will see each other again. Have faith. Be strong. And you do have me”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“You belong to me until I say this is over. You won’t scream anyone else’s name. If another man touches you”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“I wish grandparents could live forever.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“On the beach,” I say. Something about the ocean always calms me. I could stare at it for hours and lose myself in someplace no one can follow.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Oh, I’m not some fuck boy that falls in love fast.” He points to the ring on my finger with his blade. “I’m a man who’s going to use all your holes and make you forget about the one who put that meaningless ring on your finger.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“you are my reason to survive because I know when I come back, I’ve got the most beautiful, sweet woman waiting for me and I got to give her three hundred and sixty five kisses to make up for the days I haven’t been there to worship her.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“She’s in heaven, dancing with Graham on a beach somewhere. Smiling, my heart twists into my swelling chest. I take solace knowing my grandmother passed away at home, thinking her soldier made it back home to her.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Grandpa loved my grandma so much that he didn’t care; he married her knowing her heart was tethered to another. As long as he had her, that was enough for him.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“And the final moments of her beautiful life confirmed it for me. It was always him…I was the second choice.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“But when she looked at me, how she always does, with an infinite, unbreakable grandmotherly bond and a smile drawn on her pale, tired face.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“You’re a piece of shit!” “You’re a monster!” “You’re worthless!” Words soldiers and my ex-wife have told me.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“I’m a monster with scars inside my mind and flesh. No one wants me. Who could love a broken man?”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“I hand my grandmother over to Kade, and they intertwine their hands. They slowly dance to the beat of the music,”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Go! Fall in love over and over again. Get married, have lots of pretty babies, go live your life…” He knew his time was over. He had accepted it a long time ago, by the way he said it.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“They were always so enchanting, confident, beautiful, and free like you.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Seeing you the entire time you were my student…you fought to gain your wings. I watched you through a stage of metamorphosis. Your resilience and strength remind me of the butterflies I used to chase as a child during migration season.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“She’s taught me everything I know—my guide who has always taught me to choose a path of morals and faith. She’s shown me unconditional love. Why would God do this to my grandma?”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Ever since she got diagnosed, I’ve been on edge, terrified at the thought that she won’t be here anymore, even though she is here.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“I think I’m obsessed with everything this older man does. I could watch him breathe, blink, and tell me the most boring speech about the planets or whatever the hell it is, and I’d swoon head over heels each time like it’s the first day I’ve met him again.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“There’s no happily ever after with me, Violet. I need you to know that before I fuck you.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Who kisses their instructor? Their very hot off-limits instructor who tongue fucks like a god?”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“You look beautiful in red, you know that?” He licks my blood off my skin and returns to my mouth. His tongue dives inside, forcing me to taste iron.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Fuck, I already need another ice-cold shower to get rid of what she does to me. Her beauty wounds me.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“And you are my salvation—my anchor in an ocean I’ve been drowning in.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Euphoric nirvana is the result of how he worships me.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“If you didn’t belong to someone else, I’d kiss the hell out of you.” I can feel the smirk in his deep voice.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“Your beauty wounds me. It breaks me and renders me powerless. Why do you have to be so fucking perfect? Say you’re mine.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa

“He keeps fucking me like an angry feral fallen angel taking out his demons on my body with sex. I welcome it. In fact, I want to dance with them if it means I get to feel this euphoric pleasure from him, and only him.”
― Lexie Axelson, Mariposa