Dark Wild Night Quotes

“As soon as we open our hearts up to love, we show the universe the easiest way to break them in half.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I need to start using a hurricane naming system for my hangovers,” he mumbles, stretching out on the couch. “I’m calling this one Abby. She’s a total whore.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I don't have a choice but to want to do this, Lola. I'm in love with you.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“My heart wants to escape, to flap out of my body and into his. And, God. Is this what it means to become infatuated with someone? A heart becomes a hybrid, half yours, half theirs. Mine beats like this because it wants out. My chest aches to let his heart in.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I’m not sure she even has a millisecond of time to think about romance, but it’s fine; I think about it enough for the both of us.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I don’t think I’ve ever loved anyone quite like this. In this sort of giddy, obliterating game-changing way. Where I can see myself with her for the rest of my life...”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“In fact," I add, "if George Clooney is ever accepted into the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb, that activity is immediately getting added to my bucket list. "As in, 'Have you ever been George Clooneyed?'" Oliver asks. "Exactly. 'We went for a walk, and then George Clooneyed until around two. Good night.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I want this to be everything you want it to be." Leaning in, he smiles and says, "I want you to see your dream come to life.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I've wanted this for months. And I know you feel the same. I love you. I feel you thinking it every time I say it, in the way your hands find some part of me to hold on to.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“When I met you, I didn’t think you were the kind of girl I’d fall for … Then you were the kind of girl I’d fall for … And then you were the girl I was falling for.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Sometimes we make love when the sun is up, because I love a good, slow fuck first thing in the morning.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Does she know how I want to be her courage?”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“You’re like my blanket fort.” “I’ve been called worse things,” I tell her.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Sometimes the fantasy of getting everything you ever wanted is so much easier than the reality pressing up against the glass.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“sometimes you need to do it all wrong before you know how to do it right.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“She smiles at me. "You're the biggest geek I've ever known." When she says it, I hear pride in her voice. To Lola, this is the ultimate praise.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I want to believe I can breathe without him but I'm not sure, and I don't know what's more terrifying: thinking I could never be alone again or trying it,”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“There’s a carcass composed entirely of sexual tension lying abandoned on the couch. I wonder if she can see it, too.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Just look pretty for me.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“He surprises me, cupping my face and bending to press his lips to my cheek. It’s far too close to my mouth to be innocent, but not actually touching my lips. It doesn’t quite count as a kiss. Does it?”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Anyone walking by would think we were drunk. Is that what this is? It's chemistry, I know that for sure, something numbing and piercing at once, something that makes me feel like I'm alive for the first time and dead in other ways--murdered memories of what anyone else felt like before this man. Murdered memories of what it felt like to be over a hundred miles away. I know the weight of his hands and body, how he tastes just like me after only two deep kisses, the way his laugh turns into moans, and how he watches my hands when I touch him.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“What happens when emotion is too big, when it fills the chest and the veins and the limbs? I imagine sunshine filling me until I shatter - leaving starburst-coated girl shrapnel strewn across this bed.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“The panel shows the girl dissolving into a sky full of stars.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I knew she was drawing my legs when her charcoal would scratch heavily on the paper. It was quieter when she drew the details of my face, and that was when her breathing would break down into tiny, shallow bursts of air, in and out. And I knew she was drawing my half-hard cock when she stopped breathing - so nervous, but so eager to practice.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“My heart is a drum, deep in the jungle of my chest, and it bangs and bangs and bangs for him.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“My mind is a blender, coherent thoughts are chopped and killed.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“I’ve never been good at romantic relationship. I want to be … but it scares me.”
“I know.” He says, bending to press a kiss against my temple. One of his hands slides up my back into the hair at the back of my head. “But I just want you. I don’t need easy or perfect. I don’t need to rush anything.”
And there, laid out so bare and easily between us, it is.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“When she sits up, her long dark hair slides over her shoulders, covering her breasts. It's the contrast of the black against her milky skin, the way the ends of her hair just cover her nipples. Now I know why this view of a woman has been drawn a million times.”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night

“Quinn is you, I want to say. Don't let him change you. Don't let him sexualize your journey from ruin to triumph”
― Christina Lauren, Dark Wild Night