To Bleed a Crystal Bloom Quotes

“What I want, what I need, and what is right are three entirely different things.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Because lies are pretty little masks we place on our words to tint the truth into something palatable.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“eventually, those feelings will turn to love. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’ve come from; it’s in our nature to fall in love with the shackle that binds us.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“My tutor used to say eyes are windows to the soul, but no matter how much I’ve searched mine, I’ve never found myself.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“I hate you. Oh, precious. You don’t even know the meaning of the word.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Because I deserve gentle. I deserve gentle when this man is so boldly destroying me.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“It’s a very brash man who would come to a neighboring Master’s estate and bribe him in such a way. Part of me is impressed, though that part is miniscule. The rest of me wants to peel the skin off your testicles and make you eat them—force you to ingest the seeds of your future offspring.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Mates, Orlaith, are a fairy tale. A tragedy painted with the pretty face of a happily ever after, but at its core, it’s still a fucking tragedy. If you believe everything you read, you’ll be disappointed when you finally step into the real world.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Turning my back on a smooth rock is always a challenge.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“I’m in love with a man who’ll never be mine—who’s unavailable in every way, shape, and form—and I’m certain it’s going to ruin me.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“That’s how you kiss someone you love, Orlaith. Anything less and they aren’t worthy of your heart or the power to break it. Understood?”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“beautiful things don’t always bring you happiness.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“I doubt he’d have the same attitude if his dick was bleeding.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“mulling over all the creative ways I can spike an apple with enough senna to leave a fourteen-foot Ocean Drake shitting undigested seaweed for a week.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Simple, Milaje. I refuse to live in a world where you don’t exist.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Despite how murderous I am,” he mumbles, and there’s a roundness to his words, like they had to veer their course to get here, “you do look ravishing in that color.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“If he wants to treat me like a child, I’ll act like one.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“You want a fairy tale?” he spits, waving it in my face. “I’m your fucking fairy tale. I’m nailed to your soul, Orlaith, and believe me when I tell you there is no happily ever after. Not for me, and certainly not for you.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“I’m okay now,” I rasp, though the words taste like the lie they are. I’m not okay. I haven’t been for years. I’ve just been hiding; keeping myself occupied.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Why does the pretty flower cry?”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“So you don’t choke on that lie, I’ll offer you a chaser of truth.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“And just so you know, if I catch you kissing Fish Boy again, I’ll gut him from chin to cock, poach him in milk, and serve him with a side of mash.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“The dress has all the modesty of a deciduous tree in the fall.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“That’s how you kiss someone you love, Orlaith. Anything less and they aren’t worthy of your heart or the power to break it. Understood?” I”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“You’re better than this.” The hollow statement guts me, and when paired with those tombstone eyes ... I’m six feet under, pushing daisies from my rotting corpse. Because I’m not better than this.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“lies are pretty little masks we place on our words to tint the truth into something palatable.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Because you’re going into heat.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“The reason I love this spring so much—the reason I bathe here rather than relying on the convenience of the tub in my tower—is because sometimes ... Sometimes the water smells like him.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“Why anyone wears shoes, I’ll never understand.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’ve come from; it’s in our nature to fall in love with the shackle that binds us.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom