Black Rose Quotes

“I'm so wary of how fragile that hope is. With each second I'm with Valtu, my heart is constantly in free-fall. I never know when it will land, how much it will hurt. It's a special kind of agony to be so deeply in love with someone, your actual soulmate that you've found through death time and time again, and for them to be so indifferent to you.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“this is an excellent night to kill some vampires, steal a tome of dark magic, and raise the dead.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“The man that was acting the way he was he was a different man than the one that loved me. We are all made up of the sum of our parts, of our experiences, from whatever life throws our way. That includes the good and the bad, the joys and the sorrow. If we erase the sorrow from our lives, we erase part of the process, the part that makes us human. Even for vampires, being human is still a worthwhile goal. And if we erase the sorrow, we might erase the love as well, because love and grief go hand-in-hand. It doesn't make you feel any better, it doesn't make it hurt any less, but the fact remains that you only hurt because you loved that person so much. Valtu erased me because that erased the pain but it also removed his love for me. That love is what made him who he is.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“You don't just stop loving someone because they stop loving you. You don't forget about a relationship because someone forgets it. No matter who he is now, what he's done, who he's become, he is still the man I love. It might not be on the surface, but it's still there, buried away. That man was my home. He is still my home. And I'm going to do whatever it takes so that I can become his home again too. Our hearts belong together because we had true love, and true love never dies.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Sometimes it’s better to harbor justice in your heart than attempt to inflict it and fail.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Every time you get close to someone you open yourself up to pain. Because eventually they will die or leave you and you’ll be a husk of your former self, discarded, left behind, and scattered by the wind.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“You don’t just stop loving someone because they stop loving you. You don’t forget about a relationship because someone else forgets it. No matter who he is now, what he’s done, who he’s become, he is still the man I love.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“It’s not that we can’t know who we are, rather that we are always changing. We are fluid. The moment we think we have figured out who we are and what we want, something inside of us changes. Always in motion, never in stasis.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Death merely paused our marriage, that's all. We're still married. Maybe you're not Lucy now, but it's your soul that got married, not your name. And you belong to me.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“The man that was acting the way he was he was a different man than the one that loved me. We are all made up of the sum of our parts, of our experiences, from whatever life throws our way. That includes the good and the bad, the joys and sorrow. If we erase the sorrow from our lives, we erase part of the process, the part that makes us human. Even for vampires, being human is still a worthwhile goal. And if we erase the sorrow, we might erase the love as well, because love and grief go hand-in-hand. It doesn't make you feel any better, it doesn't make it hurt any less, but the fact remains that you only hurt because you loved that person so much. Valtu erased me because that erased the pain but it also removed his love for me. That love is what made him who he is.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“She leans in and kisses me. This kiss is also a spell of erasure. In the kiss it feels like she's erasing my sins. I feel like I'm being saved, and I never knew I needed saving.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“But then there was the way she made me play music, the first time I had felt in tune with anything in years. And then there was the darkness inside her that so clearly wants to play with mine. And then there was the closest feeling to salvation I'd ever had when I was buried deep inside her, losing my mind to her body and heart and soul.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“You don't just stop loving someone because they stop loving you. You don't forget about a relationship because someone else forgets it. No matter who he is now, what he's done, who he's become, he is still the man I love. It might not be on the surface, but it's still there, buried away. That man was my home. He is still my home. And I'm going to do whatever it takes so that I can become his home again too. Our hearts belong together because we had true love, and true love never dies.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Death merely paused our marriage, that's all. We're still married. Maybe you're not Lucy now, but it's your soul that gets married, not your name. And you belong to me.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think that's a lie. It's how you choose to deal with things that makes you stronger. I went through all the tragedy in the world and it made me stronger...until it didn't. Until it made me weaker.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“The man that was acting the way he was—he was a different man than the one that loved me. We are all made up of the sum of our parts, of our experiences, from whatever life throws our way. That includes the good and the bad, the joys and the sorrow. If we erase the sorrow from our lives, we erase part of the process, the part that makes us human. Even for vampires, being human is still a worthwhile goal. And if we erase the sorrow, we might erase the love as well, because love and grief go hand-in-hand. It doesn’t make you feel any better, it doesn’t make it hurt any less, but the fact remains that you only hurt because you loved that person so much. Valtu erased me because that erased the pain but it also removed his love for me. That love is what made him who he is.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“She leans in and kisses me. This kiss is also a spell of erasure. In this kiss it feels like she’s erasing my sins. I feel like I’m being saved, and I never knew I needed saving.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“But then there was the way she made me play music, the first time I had felt in tune with anything in years. And then there was the darkness inside her that so clearly wants to play with mine. And then there was the closest feeling to salvation I'd ever had when I was buried deep inside of her, losing my mind to her body and heart and soul.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“You don’t just stop loving someone because they stop loving you. You don’t forget about a relationship because someone else forgets it. No matter who he is now, what he’s done, who he’s become, he is still the man I love. It might not be on the surface, but it’s still there, buried away. That man was my home. He is still my home. And I’m going to do whatever it takes so that he sees that, so that I can become his home again too. Our hearts belong together because we had true love, and true love never dies.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Because despite him not knowing me, it's him, and my body responds to his gaze, to his touch, to his voice, like a puppet on a string. I can't help but be pulled back through the passage of time to the ways we were together before, when he had the ability to make me see stars and take me to heaven with the flick of a finger.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“They say that grief is a thief of time because the pain of loss not only steals so much from the heart but so much from life. People lose months, years, decades of their lives to mourning. It is utterly unfair and I am grateful I don't have to lose anymore.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I think that’s a lie. It’s how you choose to deal with things that makes you stronger. I went through all the tragedy in the world and it made me stronger…until it didn’t. Until it made me weaker.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“You don’t just stop loving someone because they stop loving you.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Because what am I without grief? There wouldn’t be anything left of me. I would cease to exist. Grief is all I am.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Rose is to love me as Dahlia, Lucy, and Mina, because we all are one and the same.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“They say that grief is a thief of time because the pain of loss not only steals so much from the heart but so much from... life.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“How quickly one's universe goes from familiar to foreign when loss has rearranged reality.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Then keep him for yourself! I said I don’t want him. He’s not a volunteer, he didn’t consent to this. You had him abducted!” “Consent,” he scoffs and his lip curls in another sneer. “Now you’re pretending to take the high road. You realize you came here to be my fucking whore. To get fucked, to get used, to do whatever I please. You think you have some kind of greater moral standing than I do? You’re just as bad as I am.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“Vengeance isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sometimes it’s better to harbor justice in your heart than attempt to inflict it and fail.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose

“How quickly one’s universe goes from familiar to foreign when loss has rearranged reality.”
― Karina Halle, Black Rose