Bloody Heart Quotes

“I love you like . . . like I’d destroy anything that tried to come between us. Like I’d burn the whole world down if I had to.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I don’t think you ever stop missing the people you’ve lost. Maybe someday it hurts less.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I love you, Simone. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I’m never going to stop. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you have my heart in your hands.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“We were two halves of a heart, torn apart, bleeding and aching to be stitched back together again.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“There’s no law on this earth he won’t break.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“There’s no joy without pain. The greater the pain, the greater the joy.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“don’t think you ever stop missing the people you’ve lost. Maybe someday it hurts less. But that hasn’t happened yet.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“She loves me. And I love her. I can’t stop loving her. No matter what she’s done to me, no matter what she might do in the future, I can never stop. I would cut off my hands for this woman. Strip the flesh off my bones for her. I can’t live without her, and I don’t want to try. Forgiving her isn’t optional. I have to do it. I can’t exist without it.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“She’s a good girl—I want to make her MY good girl.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I like women the same way I like burgers -- is I'm hungry and there's one available then I'll eat. Simone is no burger, She's a ten-course meal, if I'd been starving for fifty years.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“What I feel about Dante . . . a crush is candlelight. And Dante’s like the sun, right inside my chest.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I know better than anyone that no amount of beauty or brains, or fame and success, can make up for a hole in your heart. That hole is healed now. My heart is full. Full to overflowing.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“How do you know I’m a lawyer, then?” Riona demands, catching the hole in his statement. “Well . . .” Raylan says, taking down two tumblers and filling them with ice. “You’ve got the navy suit, Souliers heels, and Akrivia watch. All stealth wealth, because you want to put your colleagues in their place, but you don’t want to piss off the judge by showing him you make more money than he does. The no-nonsense hair and the unisex cologne sends a nice little fuck off to anybody who tries to sexualize you in the workplace. And then you’ve got your two-hole punch and your notary stamp over there in your briefcase.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“That’s what you want?” I say. “A competition?” “It seems the most fair way to resolve our conflict,” Du Pont says, dreamily. “Tomorrow morning, at 7:00 am, I’m going to release the beautiful Simone into the wild. I’m going to hunt her like a deer. And I’m going to put a bullet in her heart. I’ve told you the time, and I’ll text you the place. You’ll have your chance to try to stop me. We’ll see whose bullet finds its mark first.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“Simone’s face hits me like a slap. She’s beautiful. Dreamy. And sad. Yes, she’s sad, I know it. Because all those years she longed for me, just like I did for her. We were two halves of a heart, torn apart, bleeding and aching to be stitched back together again.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I realize how sick and scared she must have been. She was eighteen years old. Barely an adult.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“nothing can give me those nine years back with my son.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I am bitter. I’m as deeply, wretchedly bitter as a whole barrel of quinine. I’m soaking in it, pickling in it. She stole our baby. She raised him on the other side of the world. I never saw him grow in her belly. I never saw him learn to crawl or walk. I never heard his first words. And most of all, I never got to raise him. Never got to teach him, help him, care for him. Instill in him a sense of his culture, his family, his heritage, from my side.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I fuck her slowly and gently, knowing she might be sore from the night before. I’ve never experienced sex like that. Raw, primal, animalistic, cathartic. I needed it. I needed it exactly like that. I had to take possession of Simone again. I had to make her mine in every possible way. I had to dominate her to know that she really belonged to me again, and me alone. Maybe it’s fucked up. But I know she understood it. She wanted it as badly as I did. We both needed it. We needed to reconnect in a way that no one else could understand or endure. Simone and I are soulmates. Soulmates don’t fuck like normal people. We unleash our darkest and wildest desires, without shame or judgment. We can fuck with violence or tenderness, aggression or care, and it’s never misunderstood. It only brings us closer.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“At least I have Henry. I’m afraid, though. Afraid that by making Henry the center of my world, I put too much pressure on him, just like my parents did to me. It’s not right to put all my happiness on him. He shouldn’t have to carry that burden. I don’t know what else to do, though. Other than Henry, nothing in my life really makes me happy.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I freeze up at the sight of him. As I see Dante looking right at his son, I can’t even breathe.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“Now she’s back here, like an angel that only visits the earth once every decade. I’m the fool who wants to fall down at her feet and beg her to take me back up to heaven with her. A man like me doesn’t deserve heaven.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“Hiding my pregnancy was awful. Hiding my son was unforgivable.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“I want him. Just as badly as ever. Even more . . . It’s like that desire was growing and spreading inside of me all this time, without me even knowing. All the time that I thought I was getting over him . . . I never let go at all.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“The dress is modest, with long sleeves, but it hugs her figure to perfection. That rich blue against her creamy skin and vibrant hair is far more eye-catching than any amount of bare flesh could be.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“Kids don’t understand death. They know that adults make a big deal about it. But to them, it’s like a video game. They think they’ll always come back, even if they have to start the level over.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“The one who first formed my conception of what a man should be. The one who first made me fall in love. Who took my virginity. And who gave me a son. The others were barely acquaintances by comparison.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“Some of them were kind, some were witty. But none of them were Dante. They were just men. Dante is “the man.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“It’s an awful thing, when the first man you ever sleep with is built like a Greek god. Everybody that comes after seems all too mortal.”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart

“Every woman wants to know what it’s like to be with a man that big. To be lifted up and thrown down on a bed like you’re feather-light. When you get a look at those hands, twice the size of your own hands . . . you can’t help but think how big the parts of him that you can’t see must be . . .”
― Sophie Lark, Bloody Heart