Harvest of Sighs Quotes

“Wasn’t it true that sometimes the most beautiful things in life were the most destructive, the most grasping?”
― Sierra Simone, Harvest of Sighs

“If you’re already in hell, why not be there together? You could trade longing for guilt and loneliness for shame. But then at least you wouldn’t be apart.”
― Sierra Simone, Harvest of Sighs

“Will you hate me for loving you?” he asks brokenly. “I don’t know.” He pauses. “Will you hate yourself?” That. That I do have the answer to. “Yes.”
― Sierra Simone, Harvest of Sighs

“But in the meantime, please understand this: I. Trust. You. Inherently, explicitly, completely. I trust you with my house, with my old books, with my money, and now with my St. Sebastian. I trust you with everything, and I inflexibly and pertinaciously believe that our respective work is made better by us being kinky and playful and in love.”
― Sierra Simone, Harvest of Sighs

“I tell him how Becket ended up finishing and making a mess on the bookshelf. “The wooden part,” I clarify, my breathing coming in short bursts. “I never would have let him—on the books—biological debris—” “Good. Biological debris on the books was my chief concern,” he says in a grave tone.”
― Sierra Simone, Harvest of Sighs