All Quotes

You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.’ I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. ‘I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me.’ I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. ‘That’s what makes you my favorite.’ He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. ‘Every wicked bit of you.

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That’s what I want. I want to be someone’s forever.

I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.


Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.


She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

What’s your heart telling you to do?I don’t know.’Maybe, you’re trying too hard to hear it.

But hurry, let’s entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.