Enemy Within Quotes

“Faisal, say it. Please, say it.” Adam scooted close and pressed their faces together. Memories flickered through his mind like photographs falling to the floor. The night they met, the music playing beneath the tent on the beach, and the sweet honey taste of luqaymat. Peaches on Faisal’s lips, the warmth of his skin, Subhanallah, Faisal was always so warm, like he carried the sun within his soul. Feeling sand beneath his knees and sliding through his fingers. “Please. I want this. I want to be by your side for all eternity. Please, Faisal. Maa shaa Allah.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“May Allah bless you, Faisal, for how you loved me when I could not even love myself.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“How was it possible to feel this much love for someone? His heart felt like ten hearts, or a thousand, all beating as one, all burning incandescent with love for Jack.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“In Ethan’s arms, his soul burned, lit on fire, and escaped his body, sliding over his skin until Ethan breathed him in, took him inside of his own body, and their hearts beat as one. He was never more open, never more vulnerable, than he was in Ethan’s arms, and he loved it. Craved it. Needed it. Needed Ethan’s love. How could he ever live without this?”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“Speak the name of the one you love in your heart and in your prayers.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“He didn’t want to let that memory go, let it become just one blip in a long line of prayers. If he’d known how much those moments, those breaths, those whispered words would come to mean, he’d have paid more attention. Kept every moment in his memories, like capturing fireflies in a jar.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“He pulled back and looked into Jack’s eyes. Stared into his soul. Slipped the ring onto Jack’s finger, slowly. “Marry me,” he breathed. “Marry me, Jack.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within

“He almost groaned as yearning, painful, aching want, slammed into him.”
― Tal Bauer, Enemy Within