The Heiress Quotes

“I’m not happy about the destruction. It feels a little like death, but sometimes you need to die so you can start over again.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“women don’t need to be meek to be beautiful”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“I should have made you mine then, Harper. You were mine, even then.” He lowers his lips to mine, and I tilt my head up to meet him. I’m done fighting this, done destroying things, done making trophies for him to collect. And I know that he won’t push me away again, not because he’ll never retreat. Because I won’t let him. I’m not only a woman. I’m a she-devil. A siren. A mythical creature, except I’m the one who’s been made of stone. And he’s the man who turns me into flesh and blood.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“You’ll survive anything,” he says, a little sadly. “Even the terrible way I love you.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“It’s made me feel crazy to love a man who won’t love me back. To have him look at me like he’s burning alive for me, only for him to push me away.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Something in her reminds me of me with Christopher—defensive, because she’s been hurt before. Because people who’ve been hurt like knowing it will happen again. There’s comfort in the familiar.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“His arms come around me, and he soothes me with nonsense words, with soft caresses. I know with certainty then that no frat boy, no other man could have withstood me. Only this man, more god than human. He absorbs all my grief and pain into his body, and I know he’s strong enough for more. I cry against him for what I’ve lost, but more than that I cry for what was never found.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Who cares about safety? Death is inevitable.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Love is a chain around my ankle. It’s an anchor bearing me to the bottom of the ocean. It’s this feeling of brokenness”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“What if two people love each other but they want different things? What if love is nothing but an endless wheel of compromise? What if they mix and mix and mix until both of them are shadows of their former selves?”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“The important thing is that complementary colors don’t want to mix together. They want to be next to each other.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“If you want to make a color brighter, you put it next to its complementary color, its opposite on the color wheel. It doesn’t actually change the color, but it looks that way.” “The fact that Gabriel and I worked well together was just an optical illusion?” “But if you mix those complementary colors together, they create the darkest shadows.” She scrunches her nose. “Please tell me this analogy isn’t about sex.” “Of course it’s about sex. Art is always about sex. That’s the second thing I learned as an artist.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Sometimes the truth isn’t going to help you. Only lies will do that.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Seeing Christopher in command is enough to make me wet, but seeing him this way, surrendering—it’s enough to make me want to weep. It’s like having a star on my palm. I know I won’t be able to keep it, but I’ll stay very still to make this last.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“This is the farthest thing from a revenge fuck. The exact opposite. I’m putting together something that I broke.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“It feels like I’m Little Red Riding Hood with two wolves prowling behind me, wondering which one will eat me first. There’s always the chance they’ll eat each other.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“The three of us together are dysfunctional and wrong, but it feels so good.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“I lead him back to the sofa, where we fall into a sudden and boundless sleep, our limbs tangled together, taking solace in a shared desperation.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“He doesn’t look broken, but I’ve learned that it’s a beautiful facade.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Oh, sugar. You have no idea. I would fuck you all night long, even if I never saw Christopher again. I would fuck you for the rest of my life if you let me. You’re the one using me as a stand-in.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“A muscle ticks in his jaw. “You are playing with fire.” “Sometimes a girl wants to get burned.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Obsession. “Do people ever just meet and fall in love and get married?” That earns me a soft laugh. “I’m sure you’ve met plenty of well-adjusted guys in college. Why aren’t you married to one of them already?” “I don’t know,” I say, but that’s a lie. I wanted magic and fireworks and the kind of explosive chemistry that changes my DNA. It makes me sound too naive to admit that.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“What would I say? He makes me want to punch him in the face. He makes me want to climb out of my skin. There’s not a word for what I feel when he’s in the room.” “Desire?” “The closest thing would be… maybe obsession. The most unhealthy, fucked-up kind of obsession.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Have you told him?” I whisper because confessions can’t come too loud.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“I place my palm on his chest, feeling the steady rise of his breath, the beat of his heart. “You feel nice and solid. Put together. Not broken at all.” “A trick of the light,” he says softly,”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“You probably just… made her feel safe. When you’re young, that feels like love.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“I can wait.” That’s what I’m worried about. I’ve never met a man with more patience. More determination. And it’s scary, because I can feel my defenses crumbling every second.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“I’ve seen him in a business suit making decisions around a conference table. I’ve seen him with his sleeves rolled up and a hard hat on, giving orders to a construction crew. There are a hundred ways he shows his strength, but he’s never seemed as masculine as he does now—when he’s achingly vulnerable to me.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“I wondered whether it was possible for me to love two men. The complexity of that. The pain of it.”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man

“Want you? I didn’t want you, sweetheart. It was a craving. A need. Do you know how much it tore me up?”
― Skye Warren, The Evolution of Man