Enamoured Quotes

“The best kind of dreams worth dreaming are terrifying in their enormity,”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“„I love you as the dark loves the stars. I want only to hold you, protect you, and elevate you to the greatest heights of your ambitions.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“How did someone get over a person who had fundamentally changed their life?”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“So, we didn’t have a name for the little earl that lay in my arms. But as I peered down at his perfect, handsome little face, I thought of a name that was all too perfect for him. “What about Aidon?” I asked, tilting my head back to look at the man who had burst into my life and dragged me through hell in order to give me a kingdom we could one day call our own. “Aides or Aidoneus is one of the lesser-known names of Hades.” Alexander’s beautiful, strong face melted into one of his rare open smiles as he chuckled. “Only my wife would want to name our child after the Greek god of the Underworld.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I thought of the way he would have died for me, and the way I nearly died for him. “Isn’t it?” I asked softly. “I think it’s romantic as hell.” “Literally,” Alexander quipped with a roguish grin that made me tip my head back to the mural of Persephone and her Dead God and laugh and laugh and laugh. And when I looked back down at Alexander, my once Dead God was laughing too.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I’ve been happier with you in every moment we’ve spent together than I have ever been in the entirety of my life without you,” he admitted easily as if his words didn’t mean absolutely everything to a girl who had never been loved so candidly in her life by a man other than her brother.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Cosima had settled over my shoulder, tapping out a light beat against my arse cheeks while humming a song as if being slung over my back was normal and comfortable.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I supposed, unhappily, that she had made a choice about what kind of victim she wanted to be. One who remained a victim forever.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Grow up, big sister. Being hurt does not give you free license to be cruel. It doesn’t matter that it left your heart in tatters; it happens to the best of us. You have a choice to make, and you better do it quickly because if you keep on keeping on the way you have since Sin left you, you won’t have anyone left to bitch to.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Maybe I like the pain. Maybe I’m the type of woman who responds to calculated cruelty and animal savagery more than pretty romance and sweet platitudes. Maybe I like the kind of man most people think is a villain, and maybe I’m the kind of woman who is more dark than light.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I wanted to open my eyes, but I didn’t dare because he hadn’t given me permission. Besides, the darkness lent a tangibility to his words, as if they had their own heartbeat and breath, both pressed against my skin like a human body.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Twisting my head, I pressed a kiss to Dante’s stubbled jaw. “It’s okay, Dante. Dark things can be beautiful too.” He peered down at me in the shadows. “Don’t I know it.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I don’t love you the way my brother does, tesoro,” he said, shifting slightly in our confined space, brushing his groin against me in a way that had my breath catching. “He is consumed by you. His dark heart sees the temptations of your beauty and your goodness, and he wants to gorge himself on them. He wants to keep you in his orbit tied so close to him that your sun will only shine for him. It’s a selfish and overwhelming love.” His words should have evoked horror and disillusion. The kind of affection he spoke of was acidic, eating away at the soft linings and inner workings of a body until it was used up and wasted away. “I love you as the dark loves the stars. I want only to hold you, protect you, and elevate you to the greatest heights of your ambitions. I could care for you, Cosi, love you in a way that was healthy if you’d let me,” he continued.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“You know I’m broken. He ruined me for other men, and he ruined me for myself. I’m not… There’s a piece of me missing now, and he wears it like a necklace against his heart. He’s never giving that back.” “No,” Dante agreed. “He’s not, and even if he could, you wouldn’t ask for it.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“He ducked his head to rub his nose again over mine, a new habit that melted my heart. “Good girl.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Why was my reproduction such an available tool of manipulation?”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“If I had a heart, Cosima, I know I would love you with every facet of it,” he breathed with almost violent tenderness, his hands so painful in my hair and his eyes so wonderfully tender on my skin my heart didn’t stand a chance against the contrast. “But I was born without one, and I don’t know if something like that can grow in a man like me. If it could, I know it would for you.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“You are mine, topolina,” he vowed with the same solemnity he had spoken his vows at our wedding. “I know this because everyone is a slave to something, and I am enslaved by you.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“But if I’d had a heart, I would have loved Cosima with every facet of it.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“How was it possible to love someone so much when you hadn’t spent any time with them in years? Was it true that whatever souls were made of, two could be constructed the very same? One heart cut into two and pressed into separate chests with the hope that one day, they would find each other.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I had things to take care of before I could reclaim you, but now you’ve forced my hand. I will not have you with another man. Not even if my body was cold and dead in the ground, would you belong to someone other than me.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Were all love stories inherently tragic? Was that what made them so epic? Not the gentleness of connection between two souls or the comfort of their union, but the inevitable loss of it at some time or another.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Men. They always underestimated me. Quick as a flash, my knife was at his throat, directly under my lips. I slid the blade tight up against his skin and watched blood bleed like a ruby necklace.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“It was in my nature to dig and delve past people’s boundaries. I was an emotional archeologist, dissatisfied with anything less than the naked, vulnerable truth of a person.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“They only wanted my smile and a long perusal of my body clad in a red bustier corset lace and silk gown by Oscar de la Renta. I liked to wear red; it reminded me of wet poppies and spanked asses, of strength and lust, and memories that ached in a good way like a massage to sore muscles.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I wondered with a sinking gut whether my time apart from Alexander and the horrors we’d live through together had only distanced me from the pain of the memories and gilded them with a love and magnitude that had never really existed.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“I’d had private moments with him, small intimacies I collected like charms on a chain around my wrist but seeing him with her like that made them feel cheap and fake.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Cosima was mine. She could exist across the world. Hell, she could be transported to another fucking planet, and she would still be owned wholly by me.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“The world was a hellhole masquerading as a field of dreams, and I wasn’t a naïve girl frolicking through the flowers anymore. I was a warrior with a blade, and I’d cut down anyone who tried to drag me farther into that hell again.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured

“Growing up, I’d always been drawn to the study of the classics, the great epic poems by Homer and Virgil, the Olympic gods, and the tragic, heroic stories. I’d always identified with Hades the most, a hero who’d drawn the worst prize and been stuck as king of a dark, desolate kingdom he wanted no part of yet still ruled fairly over.”
― Giana Darling, Enamoured