The Edge of Reason Quotes

“You’re safe here. Safe with me. I’ll never let you go. Ever. I will help you slay your demons one by one until there is nothing left to haunt you. And one day, you’ll wake up and realize how strong you are. How you fought it all and won. That will be the day I take you away. The day I get down on one knee and make you mine for good. This is the official start of our happily ever after. it’s only up from here.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“Kiss me, Margot. Kiss me so I know you’re mine. So I know you’re as deep into this with me as I am with you.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“The way you say you don’t want to lose me, I don’t want to lose you. You’re my Margot. I’m your Drew. Nothing you ever tell me will change that.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“I don’t want her like a best friend. Those days are done for me. I live and die and breathe for this girl. I realize now, looking at her, there has never been a time when I wasn’t in love with Margot. There was just a time when I convinced myself that I wasn’t.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“Tell me you trust me. I’m not a gentle or easy lover. But I will never hurt you and I will always take care of you.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“You’re going to break my heart?”
Jesus. Her vulnerability cracks me open side.
I give her the only honesty I have.
“I’d never break something so precious to me.”
“I’m terrified of loving you. Of what that will do to me. To us.”
“I might not give you the choice.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“If friends is really all you want, then I’ll try my best to be only that. But I think we can be more. I’d like to be more.”
“This isn’t just about sex?”
I cup her face in my hand, my thumb brushing her cheek and the corner of her lips. “Do you honestly believe I’d take the risk with us if it were just about sex?”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“This is what happens when a guy falls in love with his best friend. He becomes this guy. The one at a total loss of what to do or say next.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“I’d give her just about anything she needs if she’d look me in the eyes or kiss my lips or fucking admit that her heart, her soul, her body all belong to me.
Pathetic? Maybe just a bit.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“Getting hurt sucks. It’s seriously not something I’d like to repeat. Ever. But I’d rather try with her and fail than never know if she’d say yes.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“She’s fucking stunning. She blows away every erotic fantasy I’ve ever had. Margot. My crazy, sexy, out of control, wild girl. How did I not see you sooner? Not realise what was always right in front of me?”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“It’s too late. I’ve had the epiphany. The blunt force trauma to my brain. Margot. My Margot. Who would have thunk it? Certainly not me. Most definitely not her. Now what do I do?”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“I’m developing a serious and ill placed fascination with my best friend.
Nothing I’ve done or tried has been able to squash it. If anything, it’s growing, developing teeth and legs that enjoy biting me in the ass and kicking me in the balls. One might call it a crush. Others who aren’t as juvenile would call a spade a spade and convince me that I’m well and truly fucked when it comes to Margot.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“Life is so painfully short. And the happy times don’t always outdo the miserable ones.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“Why do you automatically believe the worst and not the best?” “Force of habit. A result of conditioning. Self-preservation. Natural instinct to self-loathe.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“But we still haven’t found a way to erase the evils a person endures. The past is what it is. It changes us. We’re helpless against its mercy, as well as its destruction.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“I’ve worked so hard to push back the darkness within me. But at the same time, I can’t get rid of it entirely. It still lurks, despite my best efforts.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“So being vulnerable, in his mind, is like relinquishing a piece of that control to someone else. I”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“Control. That’s the name of his game. Probably because his father leaving likely made him feel out of control,”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“But running, avoidance, is only easier at first. It’s a trick of the mind that allows you to take comfort in that. I got away. I left home. But eventually, they come creeping back in. The memories. The thoughts. They deteriorate the soul. Feed from it like a parasite until all that’s left is everything you ran from in the first place.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that women all over the world have the right to read Pride and Prejudice over and over and over again.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason

“When you allow yourself to fall in love, you hand over your fears in the form of your heart to that person. After that, all you can do is hope to hell they keep it safe instead of dropping it for someone else to pick up and toy with.”
― J. Saman, The Edge of Reason