The Kiss Thief Quotes

“No love is fully requited. No love is equal. No love is fair. There is always one side that loves more. And you better not be that side—because it suffers.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“A Story of a Nemesis and a Villain with no chance at a happy ending. Where the prince doesn't save the princess. He tortures her. And the beauty doesn't sleep. She's stuck. In a nightmare”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“you’re worth more than the sums of your mistakes.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“The world is an unfair place. It does not reward you for being good, or decent, or moral. But for being talented, driven, and cunning. Those things are not necessarily positive. And none of them—not even talent—is a virtue.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Falling in love was so tragic. No wonder it made people so sad.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“This is why humans invented lies, I thought. No other animal in nature lies. The truth is ruthless. It cuts you open, shoving your face into the mud. It forces you to look reality in the eye and deal with it. To feel the real weight of the world that you live in.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Just because your story had a few chapters where I wasn’t the main lead doesn’t make me any less the love of your life. And you’re mine. This is it. This is us.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“My wings are not meant to fly,” I whispered. “They’re meant to shield our family.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“If disobedience was a competitive sport, my future wife would make it to the Olympics. And medal.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“We are who we choose to be,”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“We fell in love fast and slow. Hard and soft. With everything we had in us, yet we both refused to give anything away.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Some people just needed a tight hug. Around the neck. Wait, I was actually thinking about choking him.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Your love story was no fairy tale. More like a witch tale. Wicked and real and painful.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Maybe I am the monster. After all, I come out to play at night. But so do you, little one. You’re out in the darkness, too.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Pretty lies and devastating truths.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“With Angelo, I felt warm and fuzzy. Under a rich blanket of security. With Wolfe, I felt as if I was on fire. As though he could end me at any given moment, and all I could do was hope for his mercy. I felt safe, but not secure. Desired, but unwanted. Admired, but unloved.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Vita mia, what is love without a little risk?”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“I was mortified by the idea of beauty. It was powerful yet slippery. A beautifully wrapped gift I was bound to lose one day. I didn’t want to open it or ravish in its perks. It would only make parting ways with it more difficult.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” —Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Humans, as a concept, were not among my ten favorite things in the world.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“I am air. Invisible and insignificant, but vital all the same.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“You’re a collected debt, a retaliation, and, quite frankly, pretty decent arm candy. Good night, Miss Rossi.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Falling in love was so tragic.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Wretchedly gorgeous. Wickedly innocent. Irrevocably mine. Our hearts were tarnished. Stained. And guilty.
Unpredictable to a fault.
And bound to break.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“The only person I needed was me.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Is it you that I love. It is you whom I want. It is you whom makes living a spectacular thing I want to experience, rather than participate in reluctantly, every day.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“We were entwined and entangled, connected with invisible strings, each of us trying to pull away, only to create more knots that made us closer.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“I never planned on falling for him. It just happened. But that’s the thing about love, isn’t it? It’s like death. You know it will happen one day. You just don’t know how or why or when.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“God, Nemesis, I wanted to fuck you out of my life for good—but there could never be anyone else. It is you that I love. It is you whom I want. It is you whom makes living a spectacular thing I want to experience, rather than participate in reluctantly, every day.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“They say that all great love stories have a happy ending. I, Francesca Rossi, found myself erasing and rewriting mine until the very last chapter.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief