Serpentine Valentine Quotes

“It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“Because somehow, the snake felt like a gift. A promise. That someday, someway, I’d be able to move on from this horror—shed my old skin and be reborn something stronger.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“If you’re the light, I’m the darkness. Violence becomes me like kindness does you.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony, and music inside me.’” I quoted Van Gogh with a smile. “I feel joy. It just takes a lot to bring it out of me.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“there was no betrayal like that of a parent to a child because we were raised and biologically inclined to trust and rely on our parents.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“I don’t think it’s ever too early for Taylor Swift.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“wasn’t into women that way.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“I just wanted…it was hard to say, but the closest I came to describing it while I sat beside her, nearly obsessing about her, was that I wanted to be in her orbit. Not close, if she wouldn’t allow it, but in the vicinity of her energy.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“Anger has always resonated with me best.” Professor Morgan laughed. “What does a young, beautiful girl have to be so angry about?” Condescending men, least of all, I thought, but I kept the words locked up behind my breastbone.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“The way I taste. Like salted pasta water.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“I watched him from the shadows, every predatory instinct alive inside me.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“I’d read once that one of life’s biggest upsets was when children discovered their parents weren’t the faultless heroes they’d grown up venerating, but human beings just as infallible as themselves.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“The strange thing about heartbreak was that it wasn’t a single hammer hit to the organ. A one-time shattering. It was ongoing. A withering with time, a flux and contraction of fruitless hope paired with the bitter reality of unrealized dreams dying slow deaths.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine

“Opening up to someone enough to fall for them seemed to take more bravery than I possessed.”
― Giana Darling, Serpentine Valentine