Amber to Ashes Quotes

“You’re gonna be mine, do you hear me? No matter what I have to do, I want you to be my girl.” He kisses my noise, cheeks, and forehead. “I won’t take no for an answer, and whether or not you want me to, I’m gonna find your pieces so I can put you back together.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“If you wind up falling in love with me.” A grin softens his face as he dusts his lips against mine. “Let me correct that. When you fall in love with me.”
“’When’?” My question comes out breathlessly, my eyes nearly fluttering closed as he continues, brushing his lips along my jaw.
“Yeah, when,” he murmurs, curling his fingers into my hair. “Because even though you think you won’t, you will. I’ll make it impossible for you not to, but I have a feeling you’re gonna do the same fucking thing to me. So we’ll be even. Good?”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“I need you a hundred times more than I need my next breath, a thousand times more than I need my next heartbeat, and a million times more than I need to wake up to the sun hanging in the sky.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“What’s happening between us is sexual tension at its finest. It’s good – healthier than a cold glass of milk. Just go with it.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“I hope that I become everything you need in your life.” He kisses my cheek, his grip tightening around my waist. “I hope there never comes a time when you think I’m an asshole. I hope that at least once a day, even if only for a second, I can make you smile.” He pulls back, and stares into my eyes, his voice a soft hum of promise. “I hope that nothing I ever do makes you cry, and most of all, I hope that some part of you eventually trusts me enough to let me into your heart. Really let me into it.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Our past is what shapes us, the scars it leaves behind mold us, and what we do with the shit that’s left over is what defines us.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“It’s official. I’m the devil.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“I go both ways,”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Just like that, she chipped away my resolve, crumbling me in her hands like a weakened rock. When it comes down to it, all I wanna do is please her, rip away the pain that haunts her days and terrorizes her nights. That pain, the one that burns like acid behind her eyes, kills me. I need to make this jewel happy, even if it comes at the expense of me being miserable.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“eyes are zeroed in on mine, their lost, lonely gaze causing my heart to pang in response as I try to take a breath.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Aside from his teeth being perfectly white, their ghostly shimmer as straight as a stick figure’s dick,”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Cheating, especially the mental kind—because when we desire something we shouldn’t, the ravenous hunger for it consumes each fantasy playing through our immoral brains—can rot a relationship, sending its skeleton to the graveyard of “what should have been.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“You’re gonna be mine, do you hear me? No matter what I have to do, I want you to be my girl.” He kisses my nose, cheeks, and forehead. “I won’t take no for an answer, and whether or not you want me to, I’m gonna find your pieces so I can put you back together.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“It’s as if he’s trying to open me up and read the torn pages of my heart.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“My heart’s no less bulletproof than yours. Believe me. But if you feel like you have nothing, then you have nothing to lose, right? Give yourself a shot at being my . . . different.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“I feel his desire, his untapped need to claim me, heating everything around us, but there’s no method to the way he takes me. One second, he’s fucking into me with such force that I feel as though he’s about to deliciously split me in two, the hunger in his movements close to paralyzing. The next, he slows down, his eyes locked on mine as if I’m the only thing he ever wants within his line of vision. As if I’m the only thing that exists in his mind.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“The organ has a mind of its own, disregarding what might be unhealthy for you. Once it’s been jolted by that spark, awakened by that all-consuming flame, it plays the dirtiest game of all. With each curious beat of wanting to touch, taste, and feel love, the heart routes all logical thoughts from your brain, siphoning them out of that sucker like a thief, spitting them back out onto a highway piled high with nothing but bloody wreckage.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“The heart fires off warning flares when something’s not right—and hell if they aren’t exploding in mine right now—but how the fuck do I stop wanting someone I know was made for me?

The answer’s a clear-cut, jagged piece of glass. One I’m sure is gonna bleed me the fuck out at the end . . .

I can’t.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Hands cradling my head, he brings his gaze back to mine, his expression serious as his thumbs make a pass over my lips. “You’re gonna be mine, do you hear me? No matter what I have to do, I want you to be my girl.” He kisses my nose, cheeks, and forehead. “I won’t take no for an answer, and whether or not you want me to, I’m gonna find your pieces so I can put you back together.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Like the first time we met, in those clear peridot pools of warmth, I see something familiar yet unfamiliar. All the same, I feel as if we’ve met in a different space and time. Somewhere along the ragged edges of my sweetest dreams and darkest nightmares, I’ve talked with this boy. He’s told me his secrets, and I, mine.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Her chastity belt’s in the back of my car.”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes

“Amber won’t mind if we both dance with her, will you?”
― Gail McHugh, Amber to Ashes