After Dark Quotes

“Our eyes met and I forgot the audience staring at me. His lips parted slightly, eyes widened fractionally. I wanted to run to him. Was it the surrounding darkness or the chill in the air, or maybe the presence of others? Something … Something clicked, and I understood that no one wanted me the way he wanted me. To have and to hold, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, until death. So I went to him. That is the story: I went to him.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Love is hysteria, and summer makes it worse. Heat spreads the fever. Madness.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“This love is thickly plaited.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“She was the making of me.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I threw All the King’s Men across the living room.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I met a man online; he called himself a night owl. We played a wicked game in the last light of day. We were married in October, after dark.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I’m steady behind you. Words I believed. Words I believed for my life.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Not the sadness of death, but the silver clarity of these moments, casting a lifelong memory.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“He told me how it felt. He told me many things. No book can hold them.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“This is the big breath before you go under.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Clouds massing for a storm.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“My mood vacillated among rage and sorrow and fear. And arousal. Fucking Matt. His books affected me, always.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I sent my little missive into the universe. Matt”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Nap time: a Sky family tragedy.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“losing his parents was like having the authors of his story destroyed, so that no meaningful narrative could follow. I understood.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Somehow, our disparate visions melded”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Would I be required to fill this hand-holding role during the actual birth? I felt light-headed.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“The thing I know is that grief is no feeling—no feeling at all.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“That speed always comes with a thrill of fear.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“She fumbled it, let go of the reins, and squealed when the horse lunged at the apple. Amateurs …”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“We can’t be impatient with him,” I said. “We can’t inflict our desperation on him.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“We wronged you. We require your forgiveness. I sent my little missive into the universe.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“What else is love, if not the power to destroy?”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“marriage was more of this—a creeping siege, a war of attrition.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I came for my sleeping bag,” I lied. “I don’t really fit on the couch.” “Okay.” “And quit locking the door.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“Little blue house. Lost blue boy.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“That is the state of desire, I guess. A state of imperfect satisfaction.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I don’t want weird, dark ideas infiltrating his mind. Stop trying to turn him into Heathcliff.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“I also remembered seeing Matt at his worst, and staying.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark

“See? I can be Matt Sky, too. I can make unilateral decisions like a dick.”
― M. Pierce, After Dark