Rule Quotes

“I want a life with you, because you accept me. All of me. I am whole with you. Only you.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“You are my life. It doesn’t matter what I am, or what I’ve done, as long as you’re mine. Nothing in the past matters. There is you, and nothing else.” He didn’t look at me but kept his eyes on his work. A cluster of taller buildings appeared ahead, and he headed for them. “My one job,” he said, holding up a finger, “is to make sure you know how to protect yourself when they finally kill me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“Some things are in the stars. I was meant to protect you. And you were meant to rule.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“amerò sempre. Fino alla fine dei miei giorni.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“There is no world without you in it. Nothing. I'm not talking about despair. I've lost people. This isn't me being a child. There is one universe. Just one. And it's between us. If you destroy that universe, you destroy me. Do you understand what I'm saying?”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“Antonio straightened like a shot, straddling me. He took my hands from my face and filled my vision. The eye of the storm: a place of peace and calm, and the most dangerous space to be in. The eye made you complacent and comfortable, and the next minute, while you were enjoying the cloudless sky, you'd be swept into a violent wind.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“I didn't know how to own him with the same surety. I didn't know how to want things for us. But he was teaching me how to be his.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“Trust me when I say I’d rather break up for the right reasons than get married for the wrong ones. With him, or anyone else. I’m either first in line, or I walk.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“You are my life. It doesn’t matter what I am, or what I’ve done, as long as you’re mine.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“ didn’t realize how crazy I was until I came out of it. It was like being on a descending airplane with compressed ears that whooshed until I yawned or swallowed.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“He took my hands, holding them between us. "Please, just do this for me. Don't ask questions." he turned my hand over and kissed my palms. "Don't ask to be hurt. Don't fight. Just love me." His voice was soft enough to turn stone to putty, and all desire to defy him left me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“My fingers memorized his face, the textures and lines, to the tempo of his rising urgency. I love you I trust you I love you I trust you. Warm pleasure spread over my body like spilled milk, until I was covered in it, toes curling, back arching, legs stiffening,. I held back a cry and came for him, only him.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“Of course, no rocks in Los Angeles. You had to buy fucking rocks. Sick place, this, where you couldn't find a rock to break a window.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time?”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“felt the warmth from my chest to my fingertips as she infected my blood. Every part of me vibrated. I had agreed to stay away from her. I’d made a trade. Vengeance in exchange for erasing her from my life.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“What the hell were you doing?” he growled. “If they thought I was going to kill you, they’d shoot at me, not you!”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“She wanted defiance in her face, and I wanted to wipe it away with a fuck so hard we'd both break.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule

“The whole way to Tijuana, I’d wanted to fuck her, to see what was different, to touch this definition at the center and unearth its meaning. To dig through our separateness and feel what it meant to own someone.”
― C.D. Reiss, Rule