Audition Quotes

“Love is the hardest thing. Forgiveness. He’s right about that. If those things are possible, then everything”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Everything is possible,” he murmurs, his mouth against mine. “You forgive me. You love me. How can anything be impossible knowing that?”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Lightness suffuses my chest. “How do you do this to me, Joshua North? How do you make everything feel possible?”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I hate that fear can still emerge when I’m sleeping, when I’m helpless to keep the dark images at bay.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Of all people, of all men, I learned to trust Joshua North. He’s a self proclaimed bastard, an injured animal biting anyone who comes close. Auribus teneo lupum. I have this particular wolf by the ears, which means I’m going to get bitten—and I’m choosing not to let go.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“She could ask for anything. I’d follow this woman off a fucking cliff,”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Knowing that she won’t leave doesn’t stop the dread in my body every time she’s away. That’s the thing about childhood pain. It sets in deep. It never really goes away.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“there’s something stronger than muscle and weapons—there’s love.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Being abandoned. Doing the abandoning. Both of those have left their scars in my body. I’ll never fully escape them. The bone has healed, but the scar tissue will always be there.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“It’s an old wound, the way a broken bone aches in the winter months.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I love you.” His green eyes burn with unspoken pain. “You love me, even though…” “Even though it kills me. It kills me to need you.” “Same,” I whisper, putting my hand on his chest. His heart thuds against my palm. We were both in towers, both so bent on destruction in order to be safe. I feel that seismic shift as I look into his eyes—the foundation beneath my feet cracking, the endless fall. This is what it feels like to fall in love. It isn’t a moment. It’s forever.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“His hands tighten on my hips, as if he can feel me slipping away. “I love your loyal heart. Even if you forgive more than you should. I love your beautiful body. Even though the world doesn’t fucking deserve your talent.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“He needs a woman strong enough to forgive him. I need a man strong enough to ask for it.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I press a kiss to the top of his head. “I forgive you.” “Don’t.” “And I love you. That’s never been a question.” “I’m not sure I can take it.” His voice is unsteady, and I know that he’s telling the truth. Blood and guns and treason. That’s the language he speaks. Forgiveness is a foreign word. It’s beyond anything. It’s everything.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Forgiveness isn’t really a decision. It’s threaded with love and trust. It’s his whether he wants it or not.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“You’re trying to convince me to forgive you?” “No. God, no. In the history of time. In the history of humanity. There has never been a bigger bastard than me.” He turns my bloodied hand over and brushes his lips against my knuckles. “Don’t ever forgive me.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“He drops to his knees, all six feet plus of him. The tower, falling. Or maybe a better word would be dismantled. He’s choosing to bring it down. For me? Or for himself?”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I have no interest in the lines on my palm. They don’t decide my fate. That’s in the hands of a man with violence and anger and unspeakable tenderness”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I once sat on this swing as a terrified little girl. Then I grew up into a scared young woman. I’m not afraid anymore, and I wouldn’t go back to what I was—not even for the man I love. He’s too afraid to be vulnerable; that’s the irony of strong men.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Tonight was supposed to be proof that she still had something to love in her life, even if I wasn’t worthy of her heart.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I behave myself because I can pretend to be a gentleman under the right circumstances”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“In fact what I’m really struggling with is the urge to find Bethany in her dressing room, throw her over my shoulder, and hide her away forever. What I’m doing is bad, but what I want to do is worse.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“My life has been exhausting, and it’s spilled over in this moment. I thought loving her would crush me before. Now it’s grinding my bones to nothing. Loving her made me weak. Now it’s made me dust.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“How the fuck will I ever live without her? I wasn’t lying before. She ruined me. I’m gone.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“I was mistaken before, when I thought the sheets smelled like him. Now they do. I breathe him in. This is what home smells like. What safety smells like.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Josh. I know you’re afraid. I’m afraid, too, but I love you. You want to push me away? Fine. Consider me pushed, but I know the truth. I love you, and I think you love me, and you’re breaking my heart.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“The dancing plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in modern day France. Around four hundred people, mostly female, danced for days without rest, some of whom died from heart attack, stroke and exhaustion. Modern theories for the mania include food poisoning or stress-induced psychosis.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Bethany is hope embodied. Her weight shifts in the wind. She could take flight at any moment. I know exactly where she would go—directly into my arms. She’d breathe her thank-you into my ear, her arms locked tight around my neck. I would press her body to mine. It would be a tremendous relief, to have her that close. Jesus, I need it. I need it like I need to breathe. I need it like I need my heart to beat. I need it too fucking much. That’s the endgame. I can’t be that vulnerable. Not for Bethany. Not for anyone.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“Even in her agony, she can’t shed her inherent grace. When she’s at her full height, she looks up at me. It doesn’t matter that I’m bigger and stronger and mean to the core. The look she levels me with is beyond all of that. It’s the look of a queen passing final judgment on behalf of her realm.”
― Skye Warren, Audition

“The moon shines brighter than a floodlight, so I get a front-row seat to every moment of the pain I’m causing her. Her fists shake against her belly. For a terrible moment I think she might really have a knife sprouting from her skin. I would believe it if my barbed words had become barbed metal. It’s fucking unbearable. This is it. This is the thing that breaks me. That shatters my spine and leaves me broken at her feet. I’ve survived all this time only to tear myself apart in the name of some fucked-up need to remain invulnerable.”
― Skye Warren, Audition