Nightshade Quotes

“Then I’ll love you with the same intensity that you hate me. I’ll hold on to you just as hard as you push me away. I’ll fix you like you’re fixing me. I’ll always be here, Ophelia, I’ll sit at the bottom of valleys and stand on the top of mountains with you. We’re too good not to work.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I’ve built my walls too high.”
“They’re worth the climb.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Ophelia is my deadly nightshade. She’s bad for me. I know what she’ll do to me, but she’s too beautiful. Too enticing. She’s too deep in my bloodstream already, painful and ecstatic all at once.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I can’t stay away from you, Ophelia. I’ve never pretended I can.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Fine, I want this. I want you. I can’t escape you, Alex. You’re like the sun. I turn away, I look down, but I can still see you reflected in everything at my feet. If I draw the curtains, you slip through the cracks. I can’t fall for the moon instead because it’s you that illuminates it. None of that changes the fact that we just won’t work. You’re not the problem here. It’s me, and things out of my control.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“One down. Seven letters. First letter O. I’ve had a long day, and I want her for dinner.” Holy fuck.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I pull her frozen body onto my lap, wrapping her in blankets. “I have you,” I whisper against the dirt on her forehead. “You’re okay.” A quiet sob escapes her lips, her whisper barely audible. Her head leans into me the smallest amount. “I’m cold.” I tighten my arms around her limp frame and don’t intend to ever release them. I feel like I could vomit. “I know. I know, baby. I’m so sorry.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I’m going to die, and I haven’t even done today’s Wordle.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“How old are you, Ophelia?” I narrow my eyes at him. “Twenty-one.” One eyebrow raises like he’s surprised by this snippet of information. “Quite old.” “All right, DiCaprio, calm down.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“She’s everything I’ve been asking the universe for, and she fucking hates me. ”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Ophelia feels like finding another human after months in the desert. A light permeating the thick black cloud. When my wayward mind wanders, it staggers back home to her.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Don’t break my heart. It’s fragile.” “I promise not to,” I vow.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“He takes a step forward. “Don’t make me chase you.” I take a step back. “I have stamina.” “I’d rather find that out a different way.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Ophelia, love, I’d be significantly worse. But I can’t watch you with him.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I’ve built my walls too high.” “They’re worth the climb.” “They aren’t.” We stop on the mansion steps, his tone soft. “They are. For me, they are.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“In the nineteen times it’s happened in my head, my first time on top of you didn’t look like this.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Manslaughter? Six out of ten. Enjoyed it—might not do it again, though.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“His voice comes out a hoarse whisper. “Because for some reason, I’m willing to be your alibi.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Fine, I want this. I want you. I can't escape you, Alex. You're like the sun. I turn away, I look down, but I can still see you reflected in everything at my feet. If I draw the curtains, you slip through the cracks. I can't fall for the moon instead because it's you that illuminates it.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I’m obsessed with her. Desperate for her. But I could never be good for her, and for reasons she doesn’t make clear, she doesn’t want me to love her.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I tracked Ophelia’s phone to get her address. Stalkerish? Probably. But romantic? Maybe?”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Maybe it’s a therapy conversation. Hey, Dr. Harwood, I have Daddy issues and I want legs as earmuffs, help.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Two across. Eight letters. First letter A. The quality of being unpleasantly proud.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Hey”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I’d pay good money to watch you grind on one of them.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“In the nineteen times it’s happened in my head”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Ten points to Ophelia. You were a wreck the last time someone died.” I nod my agreement. “Character development.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Then I’ll love you with the same intensity that you hate me. I’ll hold on to you just as hard as you push me away. I’ll fix you like you’re fixing me. I’ll always be here”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“If you end up being the death of me”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“The passenger seat of my car”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade