Promises and Pomegranates Quotes

“You cannot love a person fully without knowing the darkness etched into their soul.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Anyone who touched her will die.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Maybe Hades was lonely too, and he brought Persephone to his realm because he knew she’d bring the light with her.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I’m not like the boys from your little private schools. I’ll ruin you and not think twice about it.’ ‘So ruin me,’ I’d said, so confident in my ability to withstand it.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“You don’t ever look anywhere else when you come on my tongue, little one. Eyes on me, and my name on those pretty lips.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“you cannot love a person fully without knowing the darkness etched into their soul i want to know his so well it becomes my darkness too.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“You’re warm and comfortable where you are now. Safe, even. It’s terrifying, trying to find courage to take a leap of faith, but you can’t spend eternity hiding. Eventually, you have to take the opportunities that are thrust upon you, and trust that the universe knows what it’s doing.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“How I’d drag her to the depths of Hell but convince her she’d gone to Heaven, using my tongue to write wordless poetry on her sensitive, swollen flesh.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free?”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Without her, I feel like one half of a soul, existing aimlessly, waiting for the earth to reclaim me the way I have so many others.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Control that narrative. That way you control the story.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“You’re going nowhere, my little Persephone. I didn’t bring you back to my island just so you could leave, and I’m certainly not relieving you of your sentence. You’ll serve it at my goddamn side as the queen of my little underworld, and all your family will ever be able to do is watch.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Yes, Jesus, please. Right there.” “No saviors here,” he says, teeth grazing my forehead. “Just me, your husband, dragging you to Hell with him.” If this is Hell, lock me up and throw away the key.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“But then I realized, monsters aren’t capable of returning love. And the longer you spend chasing it from someone who cannot ever give it back, the more of a monster you become in turn.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“There’s something magical in the act of holding another’s life in your hands. A kind of symmetry found in nature, where you’re given the opportunity to bring beasts to grisly fates or heal them instead.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“An overdose of insulin would be the easiest, cleanest route—especially since he keeps his meter and pens in the top right drawer of his desk, unprotected.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I learned I quite enjoy the taste of brutality on my tongue. Love the way it blossoms like a flower springing from the earth, igniting a compulsion like no other.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I knew from the second I laid eyes on you, that you were a force to be reckoned with. There was immediately so much strength and tenacity, and fire in your beautiful eyes, present in your lungs every time you cried. I worked overtime to undermine any potential advantage you could have over me.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Losing her never felt like being dismembered, or having the blood drained right from your body, creating a loneliness unlike anything I’ve ever known. It never felt like spending your life as a sinner and finally getting a taste of Heaven, only to have it ripped right out from beneath your fingertips. But it takes a woman like Elena to elicit feelings like that. It requires kindness, and warmth, not the kind of fires lit just for the hell of it, but the kind of flames that flourish with passion and understanding and just a touch of darkness. It’s her innate goodness that makes the loss fucking unbearable.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“We must bring our own light to the darkness.”  ― Charles Bukowksi”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I’m going to ruin her, and every time she bleeds for me, I’m going to think about how she likes everything you didn’t.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“You can’t conquer what doesn’t fear you, and with us, it’s always been the other way around.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“How about I introduce you to the inside of a casket?” I say, unhooking my gun from where it’s strapped at my waist, cocking the pistol”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“If Elena is even half as divine as the fruit in the Garden of Eden, I absolutely understand Eve’s surrender.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Would that prove to you that this marriage is real?” he asks, his thumb smoothing back and forth over my mangled flesh. “If I took you again? Was the first taste of ruin not enough for you? Do you still crave my darkness, little one?”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Because that’s what happiness is. The people you find along the way who make life a little more bearable. And once you find them, you don’t let them go.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“All the ways I’d treat her right, if I could. If there wasn’t too much for me to lose. If I thought I could actually love her, and not just use her as a pawn in my twisted games.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“Witter Bynner’s”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“she'd say humans are made up of energy, and that energy has a certain magnetism to it that attracts both what we fear and what we desire, and that it was up to us to reflect the kind of life we wanted to the universe so it would be able to deliver.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates

“I swear to God, up until this very moment, I’ve never believed in soul mates. Never thought myself worthy of having one, figuring that whoever would be unlucky enough to get stuck as mine would probably just avoid me altogether.”
― Sav R. Miller, Promises and Pomegranates