Quotes from Innocents

“Because love is a lot of things, but above all, love is what we make it. And we’ll make this never ending.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Don’t you get it, baby?”
“What’s there to get?” she asks.
“That I love you.”
“Well, you have a shitty way of showing it.
I smirk. “That doesn’t make it any less true.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“We’re attached in ways I can’t comprehend. While everyone else expects me to fuck up … she just loves me. And I’m reckless enough to let her.

She’s my softer side, and I’m her motherfucking monster.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“You said you loved my belly button,” I remind him. “You said ‘love,’ Thomas. Love,” I drag the word out. “Does that mean you love me?”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Our love is not perfect. We are fucked-up and bleeding, but neither one of us is powerful enough to walk away from it like we should.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love is a strawberry blonde liar, tease-baby, princess-girl torture.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love is a fighting a losing battle.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“I’ve been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we’re a walking untruth — solely made from love.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“You’re my safe spot. You have my heart. There’s nothing else.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love may be a battlefield, but we’re not doing any wrong. We’re kids in a crowd on the top of the world: high, wild, and innocent.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love turns blind eye. And it's unpredictable.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He’s absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“I love you more than she does, cocaine whispers.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love is fucked up, but love is all there is.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love is skewed. Love is being strong when he is weak. Love is obsessive and offensive and not any good, but he’s mine.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“I feel kind of safe when I'm with him. I know he'd protect me with his life, from anyone and anything, but he can't and he doesn't protect me from himself.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Alone, we’re us: an innocent secret made of bad habits spread across his bed.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“If he’s in love with me, why does he need her? I’m here. I’m love. What is she?”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“She’s the friend my sister needed, the daughter my mom wanted, a child my dad doesn’t feel guilty about, and the fucking reason my heart beats." - Dusty”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“She’s the only thing worth anything in my life.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Because I love you, nobody else will ever touch me. Even though you are constantly touched.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“I love your heart,” he tells me, making it beat. “And your heart loves me.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Bliss leads me to contentment and promises me forever. And I believe her. Because love is a lot of things, but above all, love is what we make it. And we’ll make this never ending.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“All three of them hold the smoke in their lungs, coming a little closer, a little closer, and a little closer, until they are right in front of my face. Thomas holds up his hand, counting: one, two … On three they blow smoke in my face. I gasp. They do it four more times.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“My girl has that effect on us. She’s the friend my sister needs, the daughter my mom wants, a child my dad doesn’t feel guilty about, and the reason my heart beats. Leighlee Bliss is the pièce de résistance. She’s our saving grace. She’s my pulse and my nervousness and my … everything. ”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“I know that sex doesn’t equal love or respect . I know this prudent, adoring side of Dusty that no one else even thinks he’s capable of, and I know as well that there’s nothing I can do to stop him from being him.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“Love for him doesn't listen to logic, practicality, or consequence. It's a lot like him in that way, our love. It wants what it wants, when it wants it. And when in wants, it needs.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

“It feels immense, whatever this is. Like a cliff, but also like home base – unstable, but essential.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents

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“It had been different when I was the princess. Then I had looked at his flirtations with other girls and at least told myself that his heart lay there. It had been easy to think that, even though he always returned to me after every infatuation, he wanted only my friendship. And he must have held it in, kept his true feelings to himself, knowing that I would never have been allowed to marry a minor lord of Rithia, no matter what his parents might hope. I would marry for political reasons; we had both known that. There had been no reason to acknowledge that we could ever be anything more than friends. But still, it had been a thin façade, one that I could have seen through, if I had wanted to.
And when I was no longer the princess? Had I known? If I really looked, had I known? Yes, I had to admit, I had. But it was like knowing that you need air to breathe or water when you’re thirsty. Something I knew, but without ever thinking about it, without even really considering it. I had held Kiernan’s heart for so long that I had forgotten I had it, tucked away beneath my own.
So, yes, I had known. Hadn’t his face inserted itself between Tyr and me, no matter how I tried to forget it? Hadn’t I felt somehow guilty when I’d kissed Tyr, as if I were betraying Kiernan? And hadn’t he come looking for me in Treb, hadn’t he been with me every day he could since I returned to the city? I had told Philantha otherwise, but hadn’t I felt strange with him for weeks, awkward, knowing somewhere inside me that things between us were changing?
Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.
What I wanted them to be.
Because I did. I had felt it in that one kiss, how things could be. And I wanted it. Oh, how I wanted it.
But I had thrown it all away, by putting that spell on Kiernan against his will, by keeping him from doing what he thought he must do to protect me. I had seen the look of shock on his face when I used my magic on him. I didn’t know how he would be able to forgive me, after that.
I had destroyed my chance at happiness with the one person who had always understood me.
All to save the kingdom that had abandoned me, or maybe just to prove to myself that I was worth something.”
― Eilis O'Neal, quote from The False Princess

“Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, quote from When the Bough Breaks

“Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.”
― Stormie Omartian, quote from The Power of a Praying Wife

“Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Creatures of Light and Darkness

“I was here, pet. I was always here. Even if you told me you needed me just for an hour, for this, I would have been there." Marcus spoke gruffly into his hair, holding him tighter. "Why is it so fucking hard for you to believe I love you?”
― Joey W. Hill, quote from Rough Canvas

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