After the Fall Quotes

“I’d found what I loved, and I was only too willin’ to let it kill me.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Love sayin’ it. Love that you came over to the dark side for me. Says a lot ’bout my powers of corruption.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Being pure is so overrated.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“She was a queen

Raised to sit on a golden throne

In a kingdom of crystal and ice

All I had to offer was my sword of smoke and world of gasoline

With soldiers shielded by leather and coated in tatts

My currency was love and loyalty

In a market that traded in diamonds and class

I would do anything to convince her

That she might have been raised to sit on a golden throne

But she belonged on the seat of iron with a crown of steel

At my side.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Heavy is the fuckin’ head that wears the crown, even if it’s made of grease, leather, and iron.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Four years with this woman, and I still couldn't get enough, be deep enough, or love hard enough to satiate my fuckin' burnin' need for her.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Fuckin’ finally, I was truly Fallen.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Maybe it was ’cause I knew, if I died, that I’d do it with our love like celestial dust in my veins so even when my body went, our story would be immortalized in the stars.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“My nose itched with the burn of tears as I looked at her, alone and proud, gorgeous in a way that literally shook me, my hands tremblin’.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I’d rather die on my feet fighting you than live on my knees in fear of you.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I have Garro blood and, yeah, a little chaos in my heart, but I’m a rebel with a cause.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Goodness is in action, not position.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I’m a grown man now, and I’m still fuckin’ starvin’.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Could drown in you if I’m not careful.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I never knew how much was enough to ask for in my life until I met you, and since then? I’ve never thought to ask for anything else.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I was a poet not because I wanted to be, but because it possessed me, compelled me, as if the words were magic, and I the wand that harboured them.

In the chaos of my over full, rioting heart, it was no wonder that poetry was the only way I could hope to express myself.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Knew the moment I saw you across Mac’s Grocer parking lot you were the one for me,” I whispered just for her. “Knew it like you were made from me, for me, and you were just slottin’ back into place inside me. Adam’s rib returned to him.”

Those huge whiskey eyes warmed and went wet as she stared up at me with that expression I lived for, that one that said I was her hero and her fuckin’ haven, her bad boy with a good heart that beat just for her.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“You look fuckin’ dapper, King.”

“If I look dapper, then you look like a princess,” I countered with a raised brow.

She pursed her lips. “MC princess then.”

“Dapper rebel then,” I retorted.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“In whatever planes of existence there are

On any star or parallel planet

You and I are together

Infinitely

Inevitably

Because nothing makes sense

In any language or any place

Without our love to decode life’s purpose”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I was born to the demons that hounded me.

They wanted my submission to their corruption like blood ink on paper signed with my name.

I could have run,

But where is the power in that?

Instead, I became a demon myself in order to master them all.

Own your demons.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Family were the ones who made your life worth livin’, yet the only people you would gladly die for.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Was evil, like Shakespeare hypothesized about greatness, born, breed, or earned?”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Why would you ever forgo pleasure like that?”

“Beats me, but I didn’t grow up the way you did with God watchin’ your every step.”

She pursed her lips. “This is true. I guess, now, I just don’t care if God is watching. If I were him, I’d have ripped open the sky to get a peek at what goes on between us in bed.”

“Corrupted through and through. From pious good girl to thinkin’ God’s a big ole perv.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Sometimes, I feel like a fanatic. When I get my hands on you, your taste in my mouth, my name on your lips, I could overdose on devout ecstasy.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“There wasn’t a moment that I fell in love, the tumbling sensation that turns the stomach and has you grasping at thin air to brace yourself against something that will not recede. No, that came later.

At first, there was a loss.

Of breath through my nose and air in my mouth. Of the metronome beat of my pulse and the strength in my spine.

It was disorientating for only long enough to shock me like icy water, and then everything returned to normal.

I breathed, I spoke, I beat, and I stood strong.

But everything had shifted this infinitesimal bit. The cadence of my breath, my speech, and my heart had shifted from a perfunctory tone to something deeper, something rhythmic that moved more than my body.

Whatever force had moved me through life before had shifted, and it had shifted to her.

A tilt of gravity that indicated a future fall, but for the moment, it only left me slightly changed, but changed enough to note it and note the cause for it.

Her.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Day you met Cressida Irons, you came home with fuckin’ stars in your eyes and you remember what you told me?”

Of course, I remembered. It was the day I found myself just as much as the day I found Cress. Man didn’t forget anythin’ about a day like that.

“Told you I’d met my woman.”

“Yeah. Told me point blank you’d met your woman and when I asked what the fuck you meant, you said you’d dreamed of a woman all your life and didn’t know ’er face until you saw her ’cross Mac’s parking lot.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“One’a the many reasons I’d fallen for Cress so fuckin’ hard was because she had a brain like the Delian problem, a brain I’d never be able to fully understand no matter how long I puzzled it over.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“What’re you gonna do with that, bitch? I’m a cop.”

“Yeah? Well, I’m a Garro”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Family isn’t in the blood.

It’s the echo of each name

That sounds with the beat of your heart.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“My hands curled in his kinky, silken mass of hair, and I held on tight, along for the ride, always ready to follow King into whatever adventure moved his rebel soul.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall