The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty Quotes

“In London. I was scared and I didn’t know what else to do, except stop everything from moving forward until I could figure out my own feelings. But when I got here, I realized that I didn’t need to figure anything else out but this: I love you. I want you to own my heart, and the rest of me too.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“If the mere act of witnessing a scene such as this had the power to impregnate, then I would be pregnant this instant.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Thomas made a noise that sounded suspiciously like a derisive snort. I narrowed my eyes. “I don’t care if you’re dying, I will still fight you.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Silas,” she said, her pupils dilated but one eyebrow arching up in impatience. Aroused but scornful: that was pretty much the essence of Molly O’Flaherty.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“I loved the way she shivered and exhaled when I used that voice, that voice that came so naturally around her. I loved the way she so quickly complied, my fierce fighting Molly, as if there was not a single part of her that could resist obeying me, even though in the other parts of her life, she obeyed no one.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“I had to make a choice. Did I trust Silas? Did I want him? Did I love him enough to give him myself right now, so publicly, so dangerously? Or did I do what I’d done for the last year, and put the company first? Always the company. Fuck the company.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Why not start off this miserable union from a place of total honesty?”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“And then, shit, the realization that I hadn’t drank my tea today, the tea that my aunt had taught me how to prepare in order to avoid pregnancy. I drank it every morning, and had since I was a girl, but I’d been so exhausted from the week’s events that I’d slept clean through breakfast, and pushed away lunch when it was brought to me.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Me,” I said. And the look he shot me was venomous enough to kill, but he couldn’t kill me in any sense any longer. He was finally exposed. He would be punished. And the part of me that was still sixteen, still a terrified girl pretending to be brave, breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes at last.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Serious and solemn moments, moments filled with tragedy and pain, should only rarely evolve into sticky cum-covered moments. I wouldn’t say never. But rarely.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Serious and solemn moments, moments filled with tragedy and pain, should only rarely evolve into sticky cum-covered moments.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“I want you to feel it all right now. All the shame and all the fear and all the hate, and I want you to let it all go. Give it to me, give yourself to me, and I will carry it all for you. For the rest of eternity or even just for a few minutes. Give it to me.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“My Molly knows that she’s actually her own Molly, that she belongs to herself, that she has never been ruined, because she is still here today, fighting and speaking and feeling.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“Precisely so, Mary Margaret. And my Molly doesn’t get to talk about herself like that. My Molly knows that she’s not tainted, she knows that only that monster is to blame.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“And so what if it is? Are you so willing to hold on to this principle of independence that you won’t even consider something that could be beneficial to you and this company you care so much about? Is your pride worth that much?”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“They must have sensed this, because a moment later, I was in a cage of strong arms and chests. And I didn’t care about how improper it must look for the four of us to be embracing in the middle of the street…in broad daylight much less. I only cared about how, in that moment, I knew that people loved me and cared about me.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“My eyebrows raised. Birgit van der Sant was the adolescent daughter of Martjin van der Sant, a man that O’Flaherty Shipping was in negotiations to partner with for business. She’d also caught the eye of the predatory Frederick Cunningham, who had a known proclivity for young women.”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“That moment of standing in the graveyard and hearing nothing except the wind and the rustle of moving grass and the sounds of distant birds and insects, and knowing, knowing deep in your heart, that no other noise would come. That the silence was eternal now that our loved ones had finally passed away, and that our pain was the price of their newfound peace. And”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty

“And I can’t take it any more—the hope or the failure. I can only handle the certainty, no matter how grim it is.” Silas”
― Sierra Simone, The Wedding of Molly O'Flaherty