“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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“Böyle olağanüstü, dahice bir oyunun ister istemez göreceli ustalar yaratacağı gerçeğini uzun zaman önce anlamıştım; ama dünyayı yalnızca siyah ile beyaz arasındaki dar yola indirgeyen, otuz iki taşı bir oraya bir buraya, bir ileri bir geri oynatarak hayatının zaferini kazanmaya çalışan kıvrak zekalı bir insanın yaşamını kafada canlandırmak ne kadar güç, ne kadar olanaksızdı; bu insanın yeni bir oyuna başlarken piyon yerine atı yeğlemesi olay yaratır ve bir satranç kitabının ufacık bir köşesinde adının geçmesiyle ölümsüzlüğe ulaşmasını sağlar; bu insan, bu akıl insanı, aklını kaçırmadan on, yirmi, otuz, kırk yıl boyunca bütün düşünme gücünü tekrar tekrar aynı gülünç amaca yöneltir: bir tahtanın üzerinde tahta bir şahı köşeye sıkıştırmak!
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― Stefan Zweig, quote from Chess Story
“No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― Stephanie Garber, quote from Caraval
“English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Jewel in the Crown
“Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.”
― William Styron, quote from The Confessions of Nat Turner
“Death is a fascinating thing. The human mind continually returns and returns to death, to mortality, immortality, damnation, salvation. Some fear death, some seek it, but it is in our human nature to wonder at the limits of human life, at least. When you are sick like this you begin to wonder too much. Death is at your shoulder, death is your shadow, your scent, your waking and dreaming companion. You cannot help, when sleep begins to touch your eyes, but to wonder: What if? What if? And in that question, there is a longing, too much like the longing of a young girl in love. The sickness occupies your every thought, breathe like a lover at your ear; the sickness stands at your shoulder in the mirror, absorbed with your body, each inch of skin and flesh, and you let it work you over, touch you with rough hands that thrill.
Nothing will ever be so close to you again. You will never find a lover so careful, so attentive, so unconditionally present and concerned only with you.
Some of us use the body to convey the things for which we cannot find words. Some of us decide to take a shortcut, decide the world is too much or too little, death is so easy, so smiling, so simple; and death is dramatic, a final fuck-you to the world.”
― Marya Hornbacher, quote from Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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