Beautiful Monster Quotes

“First rule of being a responsible adult, we don’t always get what we want.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“At night I want to know that there’s someone in my bed that will be there the next night and the night after that. I’m tired of being lonely, Sunny.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“She defines me, accepts me, sees me, and I swear to Christ, it fucking feels like love.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“You have no place being in my thoughts. And yet, you own every single one.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Love is not a reward for good behavior”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“I wonder if he ever feels this thing between us as intensely as I do. When my heart felt so empty, he was there, not to fill it with his own love, but to teach me how to fill it with my own.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“I don’t know when my eyes started watering, but for the first time ever, I feel safe with my mom. Safe enough to cry for her.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Will you wait for me?” he breathes, taking his mouth to my neck, and it feels impossible. I don’t want to wait another second for him, but I know this is what’s best for him. After everything we’ve been through, this could be the thing that brings us back together. “I will always wait for you.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“There’s something to be said about having your sister around when you’re feeling bad, but having her here when I’m feeling good might be my favorite.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“As she walks away, I snatch her up by the elbow and pull her against me. “I am not your dad, Sunny. Don’t project your daddy issues on me, little girl.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“I love your scars, Alex. I know that under your skin is a whole lot of shame that you think you need to protect me from, but I won’t leave you for it. I won’t let you try and scare me away.” Taking her face in my hands, maybe a little too hard between my fingers, I pull her lips just a breath away from mine. “I love you, Sunny.” She blinks, a tear spilling over her lashes. “I love you, too,” she croaks.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“I want to do it again.” Biting my lip, I run my hands down the length of his body. There is still so much of it I have left to explore. So many things I still want to experience and no one else in the world I want to experience them with. He laughs, resting his head on my chest. “Give me a minute, rain cloud. I’m not as young as I once was.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“You’re the most precious thing in the world to me, my sweet girl. I haven’t cared about anything in so long, and I care about you. If I lose that…” “You won’t lose me. You will never lose me, Alex.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“No one in their right mind would pass up skinny dipping with Alexander Caldwell.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“For the first time in my life, I feel completely fulfilled by another person. I may have unopened boxes in my house and feel like I’m floating on a life raft, lost at sea, but Sunny is my lighthouse, and as long as I have my eyes on her and she’s shining those beautiful eyes at me, I’m not doing too bad.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“And I let myself believe Alex is mine. He’s mine and I’m his, and it’s the safest and most fulfilling thing I could feel.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Fuck, I could write a manifesto on the importance of parental boundaries based on this family alone, but it wouldn’t change a thing.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“You like it?" I nod. "It's Sam Cooke." He smiles when he realizes I have no idea who that is. "Girl, you need an education." A laugh escapes my lips. "And you're going to get one while you're here.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“It dawns on me when she laughs, the warmth in her voice sounding so familiar that my attraction to Sunny isn’t just about her body, her age, her innocence but how she makes every goddamn cell in my body come to life. She defines me, accepts me, sees me, and I swear to Christ, it fucking feels like love. And it scares the ever-loving piss out of me.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“What I want and what I can have are two different things, and it’ll drive me insane, but I won’t give in because I am a stain, Sunny. You don’t want what I would do to you. To me, you are perfect, pure, spotless.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Kissing Cadence felt like the kind of kissing that sad people do when they see another sad person.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“It smells like home. And I don’t mean my house. Home like that feeling of comfort. Home like freedom.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Sunny is real, and right now, I’m craving something real.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Hey there, little rain cloud.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“If anyone sees anything less than fan-fucking-tastic, they're insane.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“The look in her eyes was like a line from a Dylan Thomas poem: dark, mysterious...sexy.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“Love cannot be replaced. The love someone denies you cannot be filled by someone else.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“I crush her lips to mine, like today is the first day of my life. There is nothing before now, and every moment from here until the end of my life will belong to her.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“There are things in my past that I don’t want you to know, Sunny. And it’s not because I don’t trust you to stay, but there’s a lot of ugly back there. It doesn’t belong anywhere near you.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster

“know I should feel like shit, giving into something I tried so hard to avoid, but I don’t. I feel good, and I can’t tell if it’s false hope, but this time is different than any time before. Sunny is different. We’re different.”
― Sara Cate, Beautiful Monster