The Deals We Make Quotes

“I fucking love you, Calista. I’ll take you any way I can get you.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“A man’s only as good as the world he creates for himself, the way he loves and protects and serves his family, the way he honors his friends, the way he takes care of them all. ‘Property’ might be an old-school way of expressing it, but as my old lady, you’d be the most important person I’d have the honor of taking care of.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“It can’t be casual between us, can it?”
He cups my cheek. “I don’t think it can be casual, but I also don’t know how we would ever make it permanent. But is that a good enough reason to not even try it?”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“Everything about his lips on mine feels like coming home. Like this is how it’s always meant to have been.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“I think we owe it to each other to live through the next phase of who we are to each other as honestly as we can.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“It feels like history is being re-written. Like I’m being given a second chance to map out how our story ends.
And I’m determined not to fuck it up again.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“I got you, Cal. I promise. All the shit, all the water under the bridge, all the hate you carry in your heart and the hurt I carry in mine – none of it matters. If you were at risk, I’d keep you safe, I promise.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“She looks at him like she knows he’ll go to the ends of the earth for her.
I want to know what that feels like in the marrow of my bones.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make

“I’m scared…”
He steps closer to me. “Of what?”
“Of encouraging this.” I gesture between the two of us.
He tilts his head and studies me. “Scared of encouraging this, or scared of letting go of the hate and the anger?”
I meet his gaze earnestly. “Maybe it’s both.”
― Scarlett Cole, The Deals We Make