Discreet Quotes

“I’m not here to save you, Will.” I stilled my movements, tipping his chin forward so he had to look at me. “Do you understand me?”
His eyes opened, deeper than the waters around us. One hand slipped up my body to cup my face, and then he kissed me with impossible tenderness as the other hand pressed my hips down, forcing me to take him fully. I arched my back as he filled me, all my lonely spaces, in ways that only he could.
“I know,” he said against my lips, my throat, my cheeks, my eyes. His low voice touched some frequency that spoke to me and only me. “But you make me want to save myself.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“We were the definition of misery loving company. But then I wondered if the combination of our two miseries could make something beautiful. Maybe it could create joy.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“I should have always stayed away from you, Maggie. But we’re here now, aren’t we? I’m in way, way too deep, too tangled up … I couldn’t’ stay away from you if I tried.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“I was a ghost until I met you … You brought me back to life.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“When I’m with you, I feel like I’m breathing again, for the first time in years. You make me feel like the world is possible again. Like life is possible.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“You make me feel…like a dying man in the desert. And you’re the fresh spring, the oasis. The water for my parched fucking soul.” He shuddered, a movement that spread through his whole body. “But I’m terrified,” he whispered, “absolutely fucking terrified…that you’re just a mirage.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“I knew how to do this before I met you, Lily pad. I was born knowing how to kiss you. How to touch you. How to fuck you.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“I’m not a normal guy, Lil. I’ll never be that guy. I haven’t been normal since I was seven years old, and now I’m more fucked up at my age than most people will ever be their entire lives. I’ll never, ever be fucking normal.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“Sometimes you don’t know you wanted something until you have it. Sometimes you don’t know you need something until it’s there.”
― Nicole French, Discreet

“You make me feel…” Will started. “Out of control.”
I couldn’t move. “Oh.”
“Like I actually have to care about what someone else thinks. Like I’m not alone anymore … And for the first time in a very long time, I feel like I don’t want to be.”
― Nicole French, Discreet