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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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’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

“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

“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

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

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

“I sense her panic”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

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

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

“Why’d you drop out of Yale?”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“His eyes sweep down over my checkered miniskirt and knitted jumper, and they’re full of approval when they come back up to mine. I’m not sure if I feel flattered or uncomfortable. He seems harmless enough.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Over six feet of well-honed muscle strides toward me, each movement fluid and calculated, and instinctively I reach for the penknife in my pocket. Two black boots halt, toe-to-toe with mine and I feel his hot breath tickle my ear. “Just out of interest, where would you stab me?”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I haven’t mentioned my crusty lip kink?”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“I’ll thank you one day, when I’m grateful.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade

“Meet me under the rugby stands. I’ll get on my knees and show you just how humble I can be.”
― Autumn Woods, Nightshade