“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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“From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things—as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from Shakespeare: The World as Stage
“Krew na twoich rękach, Falka,
krew na twej sukience
Płoń, płoń, Falka, za twe zbrodnie
Spłoń i skonaj w męce!”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, quote from Time of Contempt
“1 WORLD RECORDS CHECK THIS OUT. This dude named Andrew Dahl holds the world record for blowing up the most balloons . . . with his nose. Yeah. That’s true. Not sure how he found out that was some kinda special talent, and I can’t even imagine how much snot be in those balloons, but hey, it’s a thing and Andrew’s the best at it. There’s also this lady named Charlotte Lee who holds the record for owning the most rubber ducks. No lie. Here’s what’s weird about that: Why would you even want one rubber duck, let alone 5,631? I mean, come on. And me, well, I probably hold the world record for knowing about the most world records. That, and for eating the most sunflower seeds.”
― Jason Reynolds, quote from Ghost
“In his prison poems, the bars on his windows are merely the grid through which he sees shooting stars, each lash of a whip is a reminder of the insecurity of tyrants, and a rumour that orders for his execution have been dispatched is reason to weep for the executioner.”
― Kamila Shamsie, quote from Broken Verses
“You said . . . nobody would ever hurt me again. You said that. When you came to New York.” My voice emerged from somewhere in my chest. “I never thought for a moment you would be the one to do it.”
― Jojo Moyes, quote from Still Me
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