Complementary Colors Quotes

“We'd slipped beyond the real world and hovered where darkness and light made love to create the colors in the universe.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“Swatches of color to close the wounds. Lines to tie it down. Layers upon layers, until the sound of their voices formed a hum.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“You better be glad that thing is attached, or it would follow me home. Then I’d have to keep it.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“All I could do was suck in air through my gaping mouth and pray I wouldn’t pass out.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“I don't have money, but you do, so you can buy yourself everything I can't." He put his finger over my lips, stopping another reply. "But there are some things money can't get you. Things I know you've never had." His touch followed the curve of my mouth, sending a shiver through me. "That's what I have to offer you, if you'll give me the chance.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“It was then I realized we knew each other because we walked the road of madness together. Shoulder to shoulder, even hand”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“He went to Vietnam. He had some problems when he came back. By the time he got himself sorted out, they had no interest in him anymore.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“It was there, my confession. The truth to my lie. It perched on my tongue waiting to be freed. All I had to do was open my mouth. Breathe the words. He was close enough he’d hear even the softest whisper. And maybe
if I said it quietly enough, no one would ever know.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“Then he cradled me against his body—cherishing me, protecting me—and I clung to him. My life raft in the torrid wake of existence. I realized then I’d been waiting my entire life to find him.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“Will you let me?”
I swallowed, but my voice still cracked. “What?”
“Love you.” Roy rubbed his cheek against mine. “Please, Paris. I know it’s not what you’re used to, and it might not even be what you want, but it’s the most valuable thing I have.”
Those colors I didn’t know had a name now.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“I knew he didn’t belong the moment I saw him.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“Under the halogen lights, his green eyes were some shade of black that had no name, clear, dark, and on fire. If he’d been any other man, I would have had him eating out of my palm, but I was the one who’d been tamed.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“The kiss was brutal, deep, fast. More people were on the street now, more cars, more noise. But none of it could touch us. We’d slipped beyond the real world and hovered where darkness and light made love to create the colors of the universe.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“Roy had been real too. A wrinkle in the silk. A glorious imperfection.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“The weight those thoughts created in my chest wasn’t unfamiliar only forgotten. Then in that moment, there in the solitude, a sliver of happiness rose through years of darkness and neared the surface. A precious memory from a time before the screaming inside my head spilled out into the world. Sometimes it was like that, and those rare pieces of my past were treasures
that gave me a reason to live.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“What would it feel like to know I was safe, not because of a lock on the door but because of the line of warmth pressed against me and the weight of an arm around my ribs?”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors

“He pulled me by my shoulder. The change in angle allowed his long thick cock to reach parts of me that were never meant to be touched. My vision darkened, and every beat of my heart fought the constriction in my chest. I went beyond pleasure, into some realm where sensations worked like a creature eating me alive. All I could do was suck in air through my gaping mouth and pray I wouldn’t pass out.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Complementary Colors