The Darkness Within Us Quotes

“My husband is taking too long to die”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Men are the most sensitive individuals I have ever met, yet they claim it is women who are always close to hysterics.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“We can patch up plaster. Replace broken wood, pound out the dents to the brass. But wounds to the soul cannot be fixed so readily.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I know you have options."
"And those options will be taken away the second I marry. I will be beholden to my husband."
"But you will be wealthy."
"Is that what you'd choose? Bondage over freedom for the right price?"
He flicks his long hair out of his eyes. "Bondage is hardly the right word."
How about prostitution, then?"
"Excuse me?"
" That's what I'd be trading. Sex for money."
"That's not-"
"Isn't it?" I ask, cutting him off. "Men need heirs to pass on their titles. That's why they take wives. Else they'd be content with mistresses forever. A wife is but an object, a vessel for his progeny.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD IDEA, JUST POORLY EXECUTED AWESOME ONES. —Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2, Episode 15”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Whether they be to have this monster far, far from you or as close to you as possible to protect you and love you for the rest of my life.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“And yet, amid all that carnage, there is beauty, too. Because I can see him.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Eryx picks up a man and snaps him in half over his knee.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I hate you,” I whisper.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“For my sister has made her appearance. And she’s not wearing white.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Rhoda Nikolaides, a dowager marchioness, and Hestia Lazos,”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Kallias Maheras is a sight to behold even without his shadows swirling about him like living flame.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Like a lover.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“He rolls our bodies so that I am tucked underneath his long, strong form. His messy hair spills around his face.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I hate them. I hate him.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I don’t know why it amuses me to keep bringing up his death. Perhaps because it will make me seem less suspicious.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I want a mistress. The male equivalent of one. What would you call that?” “I don’t think there is a word for that.” “Then perhaps we should make one.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“You are a man, and you will never know what it is to suffer as only a woman can!”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I mark my place in the lovely romance novel about two gentlemen who must bridge the gap between their social classes to be together, and march into the parlor.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD IDEA, JUST POORLY EXECUTED AWESOME ONES. —Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries,”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“Fair? Fair! Men do not get to utter that word in a world that favors them in every single space of life.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us

“I try to get back into my novel, I really do, but I’m so terribly furious. I had been interrupted during the first kissing scene of all places, and now I can’t properly enjoy it while I’m distracted by thoughts of clawing Eryx’s eyes from his skull.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Darkness Within Us