“I love you, Caleb. I love you! If you care for me at all... please, don't do this! Please, don't leave me. I don't know how to live without you. Don't make me go back to trying to be someone I don't know how to be anymore. - Livvie”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind..... you'll see that. -Caleb”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“What are you doing ?" She said and laughed.
"I was curious," he whispered.
"About what ?"
"If happy tears taste the same as the sad ones," he said.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“He had told her he wasn’t Prince Charming, but what he hadn’t said, was he wished he could be.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Once upon a time, Caleb held me captive in the dark, now he used it to seduce me.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Mine.
The word was a declaration. It rocked him to his very foundation. It was a truth he’d kept hidden for far too long. Caleb didn’t know anything about love, or loving anyone, but he knew… Livvie was his.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“She kisses my scars and I create new ones for her.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Some stories aren't black and white.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Live for me, Kitten. Be all those things you'd never be with me. Go to school. Meet a normal boy and fall in love. Forgive me. It's time for you to go, Kitten. Time for us both, to go.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“For the love of Christ, shut-up! Let a bitch enjoy you mental breakdown in peace.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“What mattered is I was different. The naive girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. ~Livvie”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I'm done being the damsel in distress. I don't need anyone to save me.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“It seemed to Caleb, the nature of human being revolved around one empirical truth: we want what we cannot have. For Eve, it was the fruit of the forbidden tree. For Caleb, it was Livvie.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I"ve heard it said, time heals all wounds, but if a dream can pull you so deeply into your past you can't remember the present, I'm not sure my wounds will ever heal. Caleb lives in my dreams.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Tell me you love me, Caleb," I whispered.
He kissed me, refusing. "I wish I could, Kitten”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Softly, he inhales and exhales as we kiss. He never stops kissing me; he simply continues to steal my breath, returning it to me only when he’s infused it with his essence. Pure lust lives inside him. Every breath I take should come from his lungs.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“My name is Kitten and my master is gone. What could possibly be more important?”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Dealing with Caleb was all about perspective. You couldn’t appreciate his kindness until you’d felt his cruelty.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn’t correct me. He didn’t punish me. He didn’t push me away emotionally. Caleb was there to hold me until the nightmares passed. He was there to tell me I was beautiful. He was there to tell me I was going to be okay. In the dark, he seduced me. I didn’t want the seduction to end.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I was insanely jealous."
"I know. It should make me happy, but it doesn't."
"Why ?"
"I'd rather make you happy, Caleb. I'd rather see you smile.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“ So, that's it? You think I'm just some idiot that fell for your bullshit! Well you're wrong! I fell in love with you, Caleb. I fell in love with your sick sense of humor. I fell in love with the way you protected me. You saved my life!" - Livvie/Kitten”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I can’t keep you, Livvie. Stop trying to make me.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I don’t want revenge, Caleb. I don’t want to end up like you, letting some fucking vendetta run my life. I just want my freedom. I want to be free, Caleb. Not someone’s whore…not even yours.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I'm fucked in the head, too. Even before I met you.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“ You don't know what you want Livvie, and what you think you want, you've been brain-washed into wanting”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“I'm yours," she said, but then added, "only yours. And you're mine, only mine.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“The naïve girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. I’d been razed by pain, grief, loss and suffering, and honed by lust, rage and an acute awareness of my need to survive.”
― C.J. Roberts, quote from Seduced in the Dark
“Y lentamente, de su oscuro miedo empezó a brotar algo que todavía no era felicidad, pero sí un asombro ante la diversidad de la vida.”
― Stefan Zweig, quote from Burning Secret
“Don't do what I do but what you think is right. But whatever you do, you can't keep yourself from getting hurt. The heart doesn't seem to work that way.”
― Min Jin Lee, quote from Free Food for Millionaires
“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to try his fortune in London, but was apprehensive of the expence, 'that thirty pounds a year was enough to enable a man to live there without being contemptible. He allowed ten pounds for cloaths and linen. He said a man might live in a garret at eighteen-pence a week; few people would inquire where he lodged; and if they did, it was easy to say, "Sir, I am to be found at such a place." By spending three-pence in a coffee-house, he might be for some hours every day in very good company; he might dine for six-pence, breakfast on bread and milk for a penny, and do without supper. On clean-shirt day he went abroad, and paid visits.”
― James Boswell, quote from The Life of Samuel Johnson
“This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a “meat market” and that if Heavenly Father didn’t intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren’t intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren’t intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard, quote from Cage of Stars
“He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”
-Helen to Sophia about Alistair”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, quote from To Beguile a Beast
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