Your Knife, My Heart Quotes

“For those who always fall in love with a fictional man that may or may not unalive you.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Morphine. Her code name. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s a pain relief medication. She’s the only thing that ever took the edge of life off my weary soul.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Only you seem to drive me to this place of madness. The things I want to do to you are beastly.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“You brought me out of the dark, Em. I would’ve felt nothing forever if you hadn’t stumbled into my lap. I would’ve forgotten what tenderness still remains in a heart long after spiritual death,”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Most people aren’t drawn to the darkness in others. I can’t help but fawn over it. I don’t want to look away. Not when it’s him.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I want to lean down and steal a kiss from her. Then a hundred more just to see what this strange feeling is that she instills in my chest. My fear of finding out keeps me at bay.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Those who dance frequently with death tend to have a fondness for dark literature. Are you not so different?”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“So weak for a wicked thing like me, aren’t you, Cameron?”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Is that why you burden me with those longing, haunting eyes? Do you find my story to be a sad one? What are you yearning for, Emery? Tell me, and whatever it is, I will give it to you.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I stop, not really knowing why. All I know is that I want to observe her from afar as much as I do up close. There’s something about the way she holds herself that demands my attention.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“My fatal flaw is the desire to fix broken things that don’t want or care to be fixed. I’m drawn to them like vultures are to carcasses.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“You are the bearer of my soul.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I promise, Emery, when I kill you it will be with my knife to your heart. You’ll see me coming. You’ll know without a doubt that I’m going to take your life.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“You think I’ll spare you in the end, Emery, don’t you? I’m only trying to keep your fragile pieces together until the last song is sung. Until I’m the last thing you see.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Your knife yearned for my heart”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“His cruel smile tells me that he enjoys giving out little promises of freedom. But I’m not sure I have much left in me to reach for the tendrils of hope. I’ve already given the world everything I have.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I want…at least one person to feel safe with me,” he whispers”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“She is my morphine, and without her, I’m nothing more than an aimless monster.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I’m going to fuck you until you’re weeping, but just in case I lose myself”—he places the knife in my hand—“I want you to feel safe with me, Em. I want…at least one person to feel safe with me,” he whispers, his eyes averted, anguished.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Your knife yearned for my heart, just as you promised it would.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“You’re mine. I’m never letting you go, Em,” he whispers. I smile and rest my forehead against his. “Promise?” I glide my hand over his shoulder where he took the knife to protect me. “Always.” His voice fills the room and my mind. Maybe two monsters like us really can find happiness.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I wanted to be eight inches deep inside of her and making her weep with my name on her tongue.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I can’t remember the last time I didn’t want to hurt someone.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“When I saw you go over that edge…something snapped inside of me. It was the end of everything.” He pauses, and braces his arms on either side of my head, staring down into my eyes. “I knew in that moment that if I didn’t get you back, I would never want to breathe again. No matter what I’d have to do, I’d do it if it meant I could keep you,”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“I don’t know why I love danger. Maybe it’s the natural high I crave so much”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“People will do a lot of crazy things for a drop of hope.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Should I show you how I establish dominance?”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“Wounds of the heart are hard to heal.”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“They’ll know that if they fuck with you”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart

“You see”
― K.M. Moronova, Your Knife, My Heart