“When you love people, you want what's best for them, and sometimes what's best for them isn't you.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I get that you don't trust me, but stalking is only cool when Edward Cullen does it.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“We're a disaster, a certifiable catastrophe, and there's nothing beautiful about the way we're going. She's trying to be unbreakable but I'm unshakeable. She's going crazy, and I'm already goddamn insane. I clipped my jailbird's wings so she couldn't fly away from me, and then I wonder why the fuck I can't make her soar.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I'm not a good man," he says, "but I'm trying. I'm trying. I can't make you any promises of perfection. I can't promise I'll be what you deserve, or what you need, or even what you always want. All I can promise is that I'll love you until the day I die, and I'll spend every moment I'm alive trying for you.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I'll give her anything.
I'll tear my fucking chest open with my bare hands, rip out my heart and hand it to her, if that's what she needs.
All she has to do is tell me.
All she has to do is ask.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Grief isn't something you can finish; it isn't something with a beginning and an end. Grief is something you absorb, something you accept. But in order to learn to live with it, you still have to live.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I love every inch of you," I tell her. "Every part of your body that makes you nervous gives me
pleasure. I see no flaws, nothing for you to be ashamed of or humiliated over... nothing you should hide from me. I've seen it all, and I love it. You're beautiful, baby.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Don't say it, unless you mean it...”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“The woman tells me I'm a monster, but there's a little
beast in her that she unleashes from time to time.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I'm going to tell you a secret. A secret I've never told anybody. I, Ignazio Vitale, have always been afraid of the dark. If you tell anyone that, I'll kill you.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“She's not just under my skin, she's in my organs, wrapped up in my cells, infecting me.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“She talks to me about regret, but what she doesn't realize is that even if she destroys me in the end, I'll never want to erase what we have. I'd never want to take back a single moment of this.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I'm with her simply because I want to be. Because I need to be. Because she needs me, I think, and if I'm being honest, I need her just as much.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“You want to know what I think about when I look at you, Karissa?"
"What?"
"I think there's nobody else like you in the world.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“It's just a dress. But you? You're beautiful. Dressed up, dressed down, not dressed at all. You're beautiful every way you come... especially when you come.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“She's oxygen, and without her, I'm dead.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I promise to love you forever.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“You're not going to find her on the cover of a magazine. She's more the kind you find at a museum, on a painting or in a piece of literature. Her beauty is in her soul.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“The whole watching me from
afar thing is kind of creepy, you know. I get that you don't trust me, but stalking is only cool when
Edward Cullen does it.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“People make mistakes. They do things sometimes that you don't like, that you wouldn't do. But that doesn't mean you should give up on them, that you should write them off. Because nobody is hopeless as long as they're still breathing.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I want to put her back together.
I want to break her down even more.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Death by orgasm... and it's not even my own.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Every step you take—everywhere you stand—the ground beneath your feet is tainted by some kind of casualty. It's an inescapable fact. Nothing is untouched by death. Nothing.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Sometimes secrets have the power to kill. The power to destroy. We each hold nuclear weapons inside of us.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“She's an infuriatingly stubborn woman, I know it, but she's my stubborn woman, and my hands are the only ones that will ever wrap around her throat.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I'm not heartless— my heart is just hardened, while the rest of me is hollow.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“I can respect a murderer, and a thief, but I have no respect for someone who lies straight to my
face.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“Say what you mean and mean what you say or don't say anything at all.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
“We're a tragedy in the making. The game of tug-of-war we're playing will end up destroying us, because she doesn't have it in her to surrender, and I can't let go.”
― J.M. Darhower, quote from Torture to Her Soul
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“They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.”
― Raymond Carver, quote from Cathedral
“My education has been so unwitting I can't quite tell which of my thoughts come from me and which from my books, but that's how I've stayed attuned to myself and the world around me for the past thirty-five years. Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, quote from Too Loud a Solitude
“But at the same time who would ever think, “I’m an unimportant little person, and if I end up just a cog in society’s system, gradually worn down until I die, hey—that’s okay”?”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
“Now, legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity of credit, etc., etc. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal plunder, that takes the name of socialism.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, quote from The Law
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”
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