A Deal in Darkness Quotes

“Some scars run deeper than the surface, and they’re the harshest ones of all.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“I need his controlled hardness, and he needs my strong softness. We match and balance like a harmony in counterpoint, always playing with and against ourselves. He’s the rhythm to my melody and his beats dictate my notes, setting me free to play on the base he carries beneath me”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“If you truly understand that were you anyone else, I would have torn the skin from your body and ripped you limb from limb. I am not made for being gentle and yet with you, I am different. I relish pain and humiliation, but with you, I show understanding. Kindness, even. You are the exception to all I am, and you are a mystery that holds me in your thrall.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“I will never choose to let you go. I would give anything—do anything—rather than give you up. Understand that there are no lives I would spare, no atrocities I would not commit, no realms or planes I would let stand if that is what it takes to keep you. Men may put it differently and poets would be more romantic, but I am death and destruction and pain and suffering—and I will unleash all of it to hold on to you.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“The tide comes and goes, but I'm still here. Still sitting where the ocean meets the beach, where two unstoppable forces meet. I'm still out of balance and searching for my tether—and I contemplate all I am and all I'll ever be as I decide what I want.

Time passes but it loses meaning, seconds passing in waves that wash over me as the sea comes and goes. There are hours to think and days to dream, minutes to ask myself all the questions I can imagine and an infinity to find the answers I need.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“The heart I didn't know I had shatters as she walks away. I've lost her in every way that counts and the dream I dared to dream turns into a nightmare as the only thing I want becomes the one thing I can't have.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“He might not have a soul, but he has mine and I'm willing to share it.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“You made a deal, sweet girl. There's no escaping the devil now.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“Love is madness, and it makes fools of us all. It is also more than many of us dare to hope for—it is the gift that makes us happy.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“You’re going to beg for it, Adriana, and when you do, I’ll make you feel things no one else ever could.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“She's become the idol I covet and the altar I worship at”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“I do not have a soul to give you, but if I did, you would have mine.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“It’s okay, baby,” he whispers. “I’ll always catch you. In your darkest moments and when you think you are falling into oblivion. There’s nowhere I won’t go to claim you, nothing I will not conquer or destroy for you. I’ll tear down this and any other world to have you, Adriana, and I pity the soul that tries to come between us.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness

“You are mine because I chose you. Of all the infinite possibilities, I choose you, Adriana. Only you. There will never be another, in any time or plane. I chose you to be mine, and I will worship you alone. Only you. Until my days are done and even then I will not let us be parted. I do not have a soul to give you, but if I did, you would have mine.”
― C.J. Holmes, A Deal in Darkness