The Play Quotes

“You only get one life. Well, two lives. The second one starts the moment you realize you only have one.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“If you can’t find a man to share your heart with, well…share your vagina with him instead.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Even if you lose love, it’s never really gone. It stays in you forever. The risks of love are always worth it.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Kayla…you’re my girl. You’re my beautiful world. And I’m whatever you want me to be, just as long as you know that I have never, ever felt this way about someone in my entire life.” He lowers his face, eyes focused intently on my lips. “I’m losing myself in you. Every day. And it’s the most wonderful, terrifying feeling in the world.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I’m so in love with you,” he whispers, the roughness of his cheek pressed against mine. “So in love. There is no bottom. I just keep falling.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Don’t compare yourself to others, only to the person you were yesterday.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I can see all your cracks and your darkness and your flaws and I fall in love with it all. And I hope you can fall in love with everything that I am, all that lurks in my dark, all that shines in my light. I want you to love every little piece of me, because it all belongs to you.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Tell me what you want, love,” I tell her, my voice rough with lust. “Tell me what you want and I’ll give you what I have.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“There was nothing I could do.
She’s a riptide.
I’m just a man without oars.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I understand these dogs. I know what it’s like to be cast aside, to feel unwanted, to believe you have no one to fight for you. I’ve been there. Time and time again. It hurts like all hell, but if I don’t fight for them, who will?”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“In the light of day,” she says to me, “I can see all your cracks and your darkness and your flaws and I fall in love with it all. And I hope you can fall in love with everything that I am, all that lurks in my dark, all that shines in my light. I want you to love every little piece of me, because it all belongs to you.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Who am I?” I ask softly, heart pleading. “Who am I to you?”
She turns to face me… “You’re Lachlan McGregor. And you’re mine.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Once people realize how easy it is to make a difference, they’re forever changed”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Every decision to better your life has to come from within, not from anyone else.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Privacy is everyone’s given right, and the problem with the world today is the fact that everyone thinks they have a right to it, too.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I’m going to kiss you,” he says.
Oh Jesus, is this happening? I’m not going to survive this.
“Please tell me you’re not joking,” I whisper.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Kayla…you’re my girl. You’re my beautiful world. And I’m whatever you want me to be, just as long as you know that I have never, ever, felt this way about someone in my entire life.” He lowers his face, eyes focused intently on my lips. “I’m losing myself in you. Every day. And it’s the most wonderful, terrifying feeling in the world. If I’m being honest here, you’re starting to drive me a bit mad in my affections for you. I don’t know if I will ever be of right mind again.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I’m prone to just sitting around at night, eating frozen meals and watching reruns of The Vampire Diaries.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Please, stay with me.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I want you,” he says with a gruff tenderness. “I want more of you. And I don’t care how I get it.”
I search his eyes, greener now than they have ever been. They’re bright and burning and I know he wants me. I can feel it in my bones, and the thrill is like a million bombs going off at once. How did this even happen? I’m absolutely spellbound by him.
I clear my throat, but even so my words are quiet. “You have me.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Bram, Linden, and Lachlan McGregor. The Scottish trifecta of hot guys.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I believe in his vision. The underrepresented are the underdogs. They are the ones fighting a fight that no one can imagine. He’s giving a home to those people, the ones who have been cast aside. The strays. The wounded, the ruined, and the lost. Society can’t begin to understand their problems, and it rarely provides a solution either.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“don’t hold anything back from me,” she says. “You don’t owe me anything, but I…I want to understand. I want to be there for you, I want to know every inch, not just your body, but your mind and your heart and your soul. You can trust me, you know. I’m not going anywhere.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“It’s not like I’m one hundred percent pure evil. Just like forty percent. That’s less than half.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Don’t stop,” I hiss as he plunges back inside, deeper this time, coaxing another unrestrained noise out of my throat. “Don’t you ever stop fucking me.”
“Jesus,” he swears, gravelly and low. “I’ll bury myself in you, if you let me.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I need to fuck her, messy, hot, and wild. I want her body, her touch, her light to replace all the darkness that creeps into my dreams.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I swear, I’m not afraid of love. There’s just no one out there for me and I’ve made peace with that. If you can’t find a man to share your heart with, well…share your vagina with him instead.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“He’s probably the most stunning man I’ve ever laid eyes on, and I immediately want to rub myself all over his face. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“I decide to give them names. The pit bull is Ed. The terrier is Emily. I like giving human names to dogs. It’s more respectable that way. It tells them they’re one of us and reminds us of the same.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“who you are and who you think you should be are two very different things.”
― Karina Halle, The Play