Adore Quotes

“I love you because I’m me. Because we’re both alive. As long as we are, I can’t not. That’s not in my code. In every world where you’re you and I’m me, I love you. That’s just how it is.”
― Ella James, Adore

“I can’t be near him without craving. This is Vance, and he is right here. He shuts his eyes, and I step closer. Then I sink down to my knees. I want to hold him more than anyone has ever wanted anything. I want to tell him that his soft words from the cabin’s pond are framed and hung above the front door of my mind. He should know that when there’s nothing else for me, there is the thought of him.”
― Ella James, Adore

“I can’t sleep without you,” he says softly.”
― Ella James, Adore

“She laughs so loud and long she’s snorting, and I stand up because I’m angry, and you can’t be angry sitting down.”
― Ella James, Adore

“You knew it would end. That’s not true, though, I think dully. I’m a liar—to myself. I made sure I never knew because if I had, I would have had to stop. No one looks their own destruction in the face and says bring it on.”
― Ella James, Adore

“Maybe you were buddy, but you’re baby now, or Sky babe. You were baby in the hospital.” He hugs me tighter, rubs his leg against mine. “I wanted to fucking fix you.” “You did fix me. Every time I opened my eyes…you were all I wanted.”
― Ella James, Adore

“I felt compelled to help him. Sure, there’s fucking and attraction and love, even, but below all that, I always thought that I could ease his pain. All that time, I never really could—because he won’t rip down his walls. Maybe he can’t.”
― Ella James, Adore

“They say secrets are the currency of intimacy.”
― Ella James, Adore

“So when I’m thinking about you…after…I’ll know what to picture.” His voice is steady, but I feel his chest rise and fall. “You’re the reason that I started praying.” Heat suffuses my chest and throat. Then it blazes in my cheeks. “What do you mean?”
― Ella James, Adore

“How was yours?” He licks his lips, seals them together. Then he sets his gaze away from mine. “That awesome, huh?”
― Ella James, Adore

“I love you. Like friends love each other. Don’t get scared because I said it. Promise?” He shakes his head once. His handsome features bend with tension. How does he do this? It must wear on him so goddamn badly.”
― Ella James, Adore

“I fucking miss you when we’re not together,” I say. “Same.” It’s raspy.”
― Ella James, Adore

“I don’t know what sword I want to see first.” “Who’s saying you get a choice?”
― Ella James, Adore

“I’m an artist so the hurty shit hurts bad,”
― Ella James, Adore