“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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“She wasn’t born for this kind of life. You have to be born for this like you have to be born a butcher or a barber, I guess. Wouldn’t anybody be either of them just for money or fun.”
― William Faulkner, quote from Sanctuary
“When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.”
― Jeff Lindsay, quote from Dearly Devoted Dexter
“So fine a medicine is the will to action.”
― Hope Mirrlees, quote from Lud-in-the-Mist
“I’m broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from The Unwritten Rule
“Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what.…”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
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