Beyond Innocence Quotes

“In fairy tales, there were always ogres or evil queens or circumstances to be overcome. But in real life, you could give everything you had, everything you were, for someone, and still fall short.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Sometimes, people won't like what you do. Do it anyway. It's better to be happy and hated than miserable.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Grief was something you could work through, but regret lived forever, tormenting you with everything you might have done differently.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“She wasn't the desert or the flowers. She wasn't ice or steel. She was a goddamn diamond, formed under terrible pressure, as hard and unforgiving as the rock Logan had put on her finger.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“But everything is a cost-benefit analysis, isn't it? 'Do I want this badly enough to pay the price?”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“That much he understood now—the compulsion born of secrecy, how silence was its own sort of prison. The relief that came with being able to tell someone, anyone, all those things you were supposed to keep locked up.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“She wasn't the desert or the flowers. She wasn't ice or steel. She was a goddamn diamond, formed under terrible pressure, as hard and unforgiving as the rock Logan had put on her finger.
And she'd cut the fuck out of anyone who didn't get out of her way.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Survival was important, necessary, but there were things beyond it. Even things more important, as perverse as that seemed. Every one of Dallas's people knew it, lived it. Breathed it. They were part of something bigger than themselves, a family that would live or die by their collective strength.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“She likes being adored ," Ace continued ... "And that's the easiest fucking thing in the world, because she's goddamn adorable.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“You're scowling."
Not anymore , he wasn't. He never was, once she touched him. "That wasn't scowling. That was seething with intensity. It's an artist thing.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“It's like being awake for the first time. And it should be terrifying to feel everything, but it's not. Because he knows if it's too much."
"I only know the truth." He tugged down his zipper. "There's no such thing as too much, not really. There's only never enough.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“She came fast, hard. She came shuddering, writhing in his grip and clutching at his shirt until it tore open, and she had the frantic, hysterical thought that she'd have to take up mending because she couldn't stop tearing his clothes from his body.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“His heart was still pounding strongly, and every beat was life. Not just his, but hers. Even the cold floor of a supply closet could be home, if he was there with her.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“The place where he'd kissed her awake, taught her to feel—the place where she'd taught him how to be loved.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“The ladies are sweet and earnest and eager enough to make my dick hurt.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“This. This was her secret thrill. Not his commands, but the desire it took before he'd issue them.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“I've got your back, honey. That's what a queen does for her king.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Do you want me enough to let me love you?" That was the real question, wasn't it? The only one that mattered. "Yes.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“We survive however we can," she murmured, hating how shallow it sounded. How patronizing.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“It was too much to process. Even trying left him dizzy, lightheaded, so Jared did the only thing he could do. The manly thing. He passed the fuck out.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Real honesty was made up of a million facts and feelings, filtered through everything from morality and society to kindness and disregard. Love and hate. That made the truth a complicated thing. A tool that you could still use to lie.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Money buys tolerance. You'll never have enough to erase what you are.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“It wasn't her fault that all he had to share were horror stories.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Even heroes need saving sometimes.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“But the thing about heroes is that they're just people.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“I'm thinking...that I know what a man looks like when he sees something he wants. And I know what he looks like when he sees something he needs." Don't ask. Don't fucking ask— "Which one am I?" "Which one do you want to be?”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“Quitting is for people who've never been hungry.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“But sometimes I feel like a soldier who's won a war. It's time to go home, and I don't even know what that means.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“You can quit, but I'd much rather see you take all their fucking money.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence

“She'd always known she could tolerate pain. Now she knew she could survive pleasure.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Innocence