This Might Hurt Quotes

“He’s made of an untouched need that started the day he was born and built up into something so vast that the only thing which can match it is the rotten lake of unwanted love in my chest.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“I’m furious because you’re mine and I stood there and watched those cunts destroy you. I’m fucking furious because I didn’t know—” His voice wobbles, then breaks. “All these fucking years, I didn’t know you were here. I didn’t know you needed me. I didn't protect you.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“As soon as I saw him again, I knew he was inevitable to me, a fixed point in the universe I’ll never be able to walk away from.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“You’re the only reason I stayed. You can fucking have me.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“Don’t say that shit to me or I’ll fucking believe you. I’m not okay. I’ll eat you alive.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“Take whatever you want,” I breathe. “Anything. Just don’t let me go.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“I resent him so much right now—how he fits effortlessly into this picture with his bare feet and the sun freckles across his nose, how he forced me to slow down and stay here all evening. And every time he moves or breathes or blinks, my fucking brain melts down with the need for him to look at me, talk to me, touch me, only me, because I took the trouble to come all the way out here for him.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“I’m about to slide the lighter into my pocket when I glance over and realize he’s fixated on it, his whole body tensed. So I throw it back, feeling like the king of the fucking world as he snags it and wraps his hands possessively around it.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“To put it simply,” he ventures once he’s pulled himself together. “I want to burn something down, and you know how to light fires.” “Wow.” I take out a fresh pack of Luckies and peel the plastic off. “That sounds like a very poetic way of calling me a criminal with no impulse control.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“The man groans quietly, right in my ear, and my hips twitch. Fucking hell. My whole body screams at the thought of staying still. Now that I’ve found a way to release that black, putrid lake in my chest, I can’t hold myself back.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“Do you want to know the worst part of making people do what you want?”  His throat clicks when he swallows. “What is it?” “It’s a fucking high. You’re never the same again.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“He doesn’t say anything. I can hear him breathing fast.  I close my eyes and picture him in a tuxedo, hiding in some dark corner with that heady mixture of need and arrogance on his face. My dick is really turning into a situation now. The baggy jeans have given up trying to hide it.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“Sometimes I think love is like a river. It flows in, it flows out, everything’s good, exactly the way it should be. But if it can’t flow out, if there’s nowhere for it to go, it turns into a rotting, festering lake of need.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“You’re stubborn,” he offers drily, the corner of his mouth twitching. “Stay that way. Sometimes when we run out of other reasons, all we have left is to be too stubborn to die.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“I’m going to hate you forever for this,” I tell him. “The worse things get, the more I’m going to blame you.” When I open my eyes, everything’s bright yellow in the sunset—the car, the rain on the window, his skin. “It’s okay,” he murmurs. “Everyone already does. I can take it.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“After a silence that goes on for minutes, he frees one hand from the death grip around his head. The tip of one shaky finger brushes the center of my palm, feather-light, and for a second I’m afraid the electricity that rushes up my arm is enough to kill me.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“I’m unfairly and nonsensically and viscerally pissed off at him for daring to be engaged. His fiancé misplaced him and didn’t even notice. If I found him, does he count as mine now? I kind of want to keep him.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“Jude.” Wow, he said my name for the first time, just like that, angry and a little pleading. I study him, savoring the moment,”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“feelings. I hope he carries the hurt more easily than I have. For some reason I hate the idea of him suffering. I want to tell him it’s okay, that once you get used to it, you can live with this feeling a long, long time before you break. ”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“I don’t. I just can’t understand why it’s worth ruining your life for two hundred dollars.” “What life? And it’s three hundred and twenty seven dollars, thank you.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt

“My body rebelled when I tried to walk away from him, to a place where he wasn’t. I didn’t want him to stop looking at me. No one else has ever looked at me before.”
― Riley Nash, This Might Hurt