Innocents Quotes

“Because love is a lot of things, but above all, love is what we make it. And we’ll make this never ending.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Don’t you get it, baby?”
“What’s there to get?” she asks.
“That I love you.”
“Well, you have a shitty way of showing it.
I smirk. “That doesn’t make it any less true.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“We’re attached in ways I can’t comprehend. While everyone else expects me to fuck up … she just loves me. And I’m reckless enough to let her.

She’s my softer side, and I’m her motherfucking monster.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You said you loved my belly button,” I remind him. “You said ‘love,’ Thomas. Love,” I drag the word out. “Does that mean you love me?”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Our love is not perfect. We are fucked-up and bleeding, but neither one of us is powerful enough to walk away from it like we should.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love is a strawberry blonde liar, tease-baby, princess-girl torture.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love is a fighting a losing battle.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I’ve been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we’re a walking untruth — solely made from love.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You’re my safe spot. You have my heart. There’s nothing else.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love is skewed. Love is being strong when he is weak. Love is obsessive and offensive and not any good, but he’s mine.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love is fucked up, but love is all there is.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love may be a battlefield, but we’re not doing any wrong. We’re kids in a crowd on the top of the world: high, wild, and innocent.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He’s absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Alone, we’re us: an innocent secret made of bad habits spread across his bed.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I love you more than she does, cocaine whispers.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You haven't seen crazy, baby.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I feel kind of safe when I'm with him. I know he'd protect me with his life, from anyone and anything, but he can't and he doesn't protect me from himself.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love turns blind eye. And it's unpredictable.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“I love your heart,” he tells me, making it beat. “And your heart loves me.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“If he’s in love with me, why does he need her? I’m here. I’m love. What is she?”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“She’s the friend my sister needed, the daughter my mom wanted, a child my dad doesn’t feel guilty about, and the fucking reason my heart beats." - Dusty”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“My girl has that effect on us. She’s the friend my sister needs, the daughter my mom wants, a child my dad doesn’t feel guilty about, and the reason my heart beats. Leighlee Bliss is the pièce de résistance. She’s our saving grace. She’s my pulse and my nervousness and my … everything. ”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Bliss leads me to contentment and promises me forever. And I believe her. Because love is a lot of things, but above all, love is what we make it. And we’ll make this never ending.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Because I love you, nobody else will ever touch me. Even though you are constantly touched.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“She’s the only thing worth anything in my life.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“You were made to love me, Leigh," he says quietly, as if his touch leave any room inside me for doubt. "It's why you were born.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love knows. Love feels the pull that’s impossible to defy. Love is the pull.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“It feels immense, whatever this is. Like a cliff, but also like home base – unstable, but essential.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents

“Love for him doesn't listen to logic, practicality, or consequence. It's a lot like him in that way, our love. It wants what it wants, when it wants it. And when in wants, it needs.”
― Mary Elizabeth, Innocents