Breaking Him Quotes

“Love is never satisfied with half-measures.  It won’t take parts of you.  It will own all of you, every single, longing piece.   “Love will make you its slave,” I stated venomously.  “It will ruin you.  Grind you under its heel until you don’t recognize what’s left.   “Love will take your soul.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“The most toxic relationships in life are defined by the way they make us feel about ourselves.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“His lips were my own personal hell.  They were either his biggest lie, or his greatest betrayer.  Every kiss he’d ever given me, when we were in love or in hate, told me how he cared.  Told me how he longed.  Craved.  Pined.  Mourned.  Despaired.  Told me he was as desperate for me as ever.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Jealousy is always born with love but it does not die with it.” ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“No one would ever know me like he did. Understand and indulge the darkness and the lightness in me. The good and the bad. The strong and the weak. Take all of the parts of me that were toxic and soothe them with the perfect antidote. We had all of the ingredients of forever love.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“It was the sweetest torture, the most delightful torment, to let the man that had ruined me for joy bring it back into my body for one brief instant.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I hate you,” I told him, quietly and vehemently.
“I hate that I still love you.” Just as quiet, just as vehement. Far more destructive … “I hate that I’ll never stop.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I have to remind myself to breathe—almost remind my heart to beat!” Emily Brontë”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Every kiss he’d ever given me, when we were in love or in hate, told me how he cared. Told me how he longed. Craved. Pined. Mourned. Despaired. Told me he was as desperate for me as ever.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Whether I was the love or hate of his life, nothing and no one would ever overshadow me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up.  But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” ~Albert Einstein”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Never relinquish the keys to your soul to someone else. It gives them too much power.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.”

H. L. Mencken”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade will suck. - A realist.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I do believe in love … I believe it’s the most destructive force on earth.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I love you too, I told him. There was nothing in the world I was more certain of. Not one thing. Not the sky or the moon, not the earth or the sun.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Love is a trap.  When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.” ~Paulo Coelho The”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“What happens when two people of terrible pride fall for each other?
Terrible things.
Destruction, Chason, Pain. Sorrow.
War.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I wasn’t here to make love.  I was here to make war.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“His lips were my own personal hell. They were either his biggest lie, or his greatest betrayer.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“You were wrong, Gram," I said softly, tone emotionless because I was resigned to the awful, lonely truth of it. "Love doesn't save our souls. It kills them.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Ah, sweet torture.   This was the part I dreaded the most.   When our eyes clashed, and everything, every horrible, wonderful, painful, ugly, beautiful, torturous, ruinous, gory bit of us came back to me.   It was bad enough when I didn’t have to look at him.   But when I did—exquisite torment, with a touch of pleasure so concentrated, so brutally pure it had ruined my life.   Broken my heart.   Eviscerated my soul.  I’d scraped what was left of that pathetic soul out myself, sawed it into little pieces and left it somewhere far behind.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Love is like war. Easy to begin, but very hard to stop."  ~H.L. MENCKEN”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“He knew me that fucking well.

No one on earth should know a person that well.

Lovers should have secrets.

In fact, they need them.

Some part of you should stay a mystery in every relationship. Enough mystery to keep some distance and a bit of perspective.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.” ~Emily Brontë”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I liked to think I had a tough everything, but I did have one weakness.   One.  In my entire child/woman body, and we both knew it.   Dante.  He was the chink in my armor.  My soft underbelly.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Breaking him until he was as broken as me was the only thing that would ever be enough.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I have tormented some sweet men. Broken hearts and shattered dreams.

Men are punching bags, and I have a hell of a right hook.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“If the smooth lines of her face had been made of karma, she'd look like a withered old hag by now.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him