Top 100 J.M. Darhower Quotes
#2. No one is more grateful to be alive than someone who thought they were going to die.
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#3. My mom always wanted a bunch of kids, but they stopped after me. I never understood why."
His voice was wistful. Haven closed the distance between them and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Maybe they realized they created perfection when they made you and didnt need anymore.
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#4. In the words of Meredith Grey, you're dark and twisty, okay?
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#5. Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used to tell us that. It's been a long time, but I can still hear her saying it.
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#6. Voting's important," Corrado said, pausing at the cellar door. "People like to feel like they actually have a say in what happens, even if it's just an illusion.
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#7. We keep the darkest parts of us to ourselves until we think others are ready to see them.
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#8. I'm the king of the jungle. I'm the predator."
"Does that make me your prey?"
"That makes you my queen.
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#9. Do you still feel that?" he asked, nipping at the skin near her collarbone. "The electricity between us? Please tell me you feel it."
"I feel it," she whispered.
"I need you, Haven," he said, his voice cracking as the words caught in his throat.
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#10. Love is a terrible excuse. It's dangerous to lose yourself in someone else.
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#11. I can't save the world, Haven, bur I'll save you ... even if it's the last thing I do.
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#13. I know their type. They smile too easily, welcome too warmly, their words as fake as the moans
they make when they let their little boyfriends play around between their thighs.
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#14. I get to watch you inhale. I get to make you breathe. It's like you're coming back from death, and it's a goddamn beautiful thing to see.
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#15. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.
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#16. Sweetheart, you don't even know the half of it.I envy you more than you could possibly understand.
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#17. We waste too much time looking for the next thing and not appreciating what we have right now ... and right now, what we have, is endless opportunities.
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#18. I'm thinking the only way you could possibly be any more perfect right now," he says against my skin, "would be if I were fucking you so hard the people in the lobby could hear your screams.
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#19. Your hate is poison, Vincenzo. It eats you from the inside out. You must find it in your heart to let go. Then, and only then, will you find the peace you seek. Only then will you be forgiven.
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#20. The woman's touch is witchcraft. It's a sin to give in, but seeing as sinning is my specialty, I let her dark magic consume me, because what do I have to lose?
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#21. Some things in life only happen once, the memories of them lasting forever. they're moments that alter you, turning you into a person you never thought you'd become, but someone you were always destined to be.
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#22. Holy fuck. This man and those hands... he doesn't play fair. At all. He presses buttons he's got no business pressing.
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#24. But then she happened. The girl who had never been able to call her life her own taught a boy who had the world at his fingertips exactly what it meant to live. He wasn't alone anymore.
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#25. It amazes me, how the pursuit of wisdom tends to turn people into shells of their former selves.
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#26. This has to be a dream. It's a dream. I'm asleep, or in a coma. Maybe he choked me last night until I fell unconscious, or maybe I'm dead, or maybe he's just fucking with me. Maybe I'm mistaken.
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#27. The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That's the beauty of it all." I smile softly. "Do you have a big family?" "I do," he says, "but most of us aren't blood related.
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#28. But I am willing to bet that makes ol' Bebop and Rocksteady here our dastardly villains. And doing that basic math in my head, I'm saying it all adds up to the Russians.
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#29. I want to put her back together.
I want to break her down even more.
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#30. A radiant smile lit up her face as her eyes sparkled. His heart nearly stilled at the sight.
It took everything Carmine had in him not to fall to his knees right then and there and beg her to always looks at him that way.
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#31. The woman tells me I'm a monster, but there's a little
beast in her that she unleashes from time to time.
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#32. And if you really love me," he says, pulling off the tie before looking at me again. He looks furious. The sight of his anger, the icy tone of his voice, makes my knees weak. I'm definitely trembling now. "If you mean it, you'll fight back.
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#33. Maybe he was dangerous, but for some reason, she trusted him.
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#34. You had me," she whispered, cheeks flushing at the reminder. "I did," he agreed. "But the past isn't what matters. I live in the present, Genna. I live in the now. I had you, yeah, but what I want is to have you.
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#35. Nothing I can say will make her feel better at the moment, so I just press a kiss to her forehead before walking out.
Places to go.
People to see.
Blood to spill.
You know how it is.
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#36. They won'y hurt me, right?"
"Right," he said.
"You're probably then times more dangerous than fireflies are"
Dangerous. The word made his heart spike.Something told him that was what this girl was
a danger to his fucking sanity.
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#37. I wish he would draw a rope so I could pull it from my flesh and hang him with it. I'm sure
he deserves it.
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#38. Scar. I still don't know his real name. The man's like Beetlejuice... or hell, maybe he's Voldemort. He's fucking Bloody Mary. Don't dare say his name or he might show up.
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#39. You may growl, and hiss, and meow, and maybe sometimes you bring out those claws, but I know how to make you purr. I'm the king of the jungle. I'm the predator.
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#40. I have a word problem for you." "I'm listening" "If Naz forgoes sleep, and Karissa gets naked, how many orgasms can he give her before sun up?
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#41. The devil tricked you to trigger the apocalypse, and then he stuck a knife through your chest, but I swear it was out of love.
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#42. He's my breath of fresh air, and I feel like I can't breathe anymore when he's not around.
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#43. I feel like I'm in an entirely different world when I'm with you, a world I never knew existed before ... like I never knew it could be this way, that I could be this way." "That's why they call it Wonderland, Aphrodite.
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#44. Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
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#45. She's saying Santa Claus doesn't come to our house."
Celia tensed a bit, realizing he had been listening. "He can."
"No, he can't."
"We have a chimney."
"If something comes down my chimney, I'm shooting it ... especially a fat man wearing a suit.
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#46. This was how it had to go-she was a sacrifice he had to make, collateral damage in his quest for retaliation - but this wasn't how it was suppose to end. He wasn't supposed to lose it all.
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#47. Sometimes secrets have the power to kill. The power to destroy. We each hold nuclear weapons inside of us.
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#48. You have a tendency to just go with the flow and see where the wind blows, so I picked somewhere
decent for you to land.
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#49. She'd either be certain then, that he was crazy, or he'd look like nothing more than a pervert with a cheesy pick up line.
"Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"
"Of course it did, asshole. I bled out in the fucking street.
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#50. She's not just under my skin, she's in my organs, wrapped up in my cells, infecting me.
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#51. The dream lives on, Reece, and it never gives up on you, no matter what you might think. Dreams sometimes just change.
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#52. I've been trying to take the high road, you know, the Capone way ...
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#53. He motions toward my discarded cigarette butt. Littering
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#54. When you dream, you can go anywhere. I always go to the snow
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#55. Can I keep you? he whispered, laughing and pulling away from her as soon as the words came out. Whats wrong with me? I'm quoting Casper.
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#56. Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know.
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#57. Maybe it's bullshit, I don't know, but they say van Gough used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would bring some happiness inside of him. They claim he was mad, that it was proof he'd gone crazy, but I don't believe it.
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#58. He's a child with a brand new toy, and I just hope he doesn't break me as soon as I'm out of the package.
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#59. Would you be willing to take a lie detector test?"
"I'm afraid not," he said. "It goes against my religion."
His brow furrowed. "How?"
"Only God can judge me ...
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#60. To Jar Jar Binks. I'm sorry everyone in the universe seems to hate you.
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#62. I'm thinking that I like you, and that's a problem for me."
His serious tone startles me. "Why's it a problem?"
"Because I don't like people," he says bluntly. "I deal with people.
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#63. Ah, so you're one of those..."
His eyes narrow. "One of what?"
"Those big guys that get off on picking on women. What, your mommy didn't love you enough, so you've gotta take it out on us?
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#64. So what are you afraid of?" She paused, considering how to answer. "Hope." His brow furrowed. "Hope scares you?" "I try not to hope for anything," she said. "If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing." "That's
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#65. She wasn't a girl to be fucked. She was a girl to be made love to.
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#66. 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.
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#67. Her bitch of a mother shot me and I'm only worried about her. Go figure.
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#68. He's a force of nature. The wind would carry me right back to him.
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#69. Get haven to my house and fix her before your son resorts to resuscitating people just to kill them again.
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#70. The sky isn't the limit in my world, Karissa. There is no limit. You want it? You got it. Whatever it is.
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#71. It's hard to feel alive when you've been obliterated inside, hard to feel real when you no longer remember how to dream.
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#72. What if we both can't win?" "I've already told you what happens then." "What?" "I give you the plank, Karissa." It takes a moment for her to understand. The Plank of Carneades.
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#74. He's a gentle giant, harmless and soft, like a teddy bear.
Except deep down, I know he's not.
And when his eyes cut my way, and I see the darkness on the surface, I'm reminded that this man hangs out with monsters.
And one might even exist inside of him.
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#75. They say when seeking revenge, dig two graves, one for you and one for them.
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#76. Only you," she said, as if she could read his mind. "It'll only ever be you, Carmine.
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#77. Everything changes eventually, not necessarily for the bad, but not always for the good, either
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#78. Haven, baby, I need you to wake up. You have to make it. I can't do this if you don't.
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#79. A coward dies a thousand deaths ... a soldier dies but once.
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#80. You wouldn't really hurt me." "Not intentionally," he agrees. "But just because you call me a good guy doesn't mean I am one. It just means I've sufficiently Stockholm'ed you.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Melody's an F5 tornado, and I've easily settled into my roll of playing National Guard and cleaning up her messes.
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#83. Don't know what?" "Why?" "Why what?" "Why me?" He stares at me for a moment. "Why not you?
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#84. Oggi uccidiamo, domani moriremo, he said, his gloved hand making the sign of the cross. Today we kill, tomorrow we die.
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#86. So I sit, and stare, and wait, and cling to the little bit of hope I wake up with every day, but I don't stop doing it, I don't just give up, because maybe - goddamn it, maybe - I'll find my wings again and get to soar.
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#87. I hate when she calls me that name but once again my cock twitches. She's furious. And that? I fucking love it.
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#88. The smell of chemicals clings to the kitchen, a strange mixture of bleach and noxious lemon. The floor glistens, everything within eyesight scoured.
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#89. He ignites something inside of me, stirring up these little sparks in my gut that send jolts through my body, like a defibrillator to the heart.
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#90. I learned how to do that from him, how to use a knife
gracefully like it's an extension of my limb.
I just use it differently.
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#91. You think something's wrong?"
"I know something's wrong," I say. "Were you aware Five here hasn't watched Star Wars?"
"What?"
"Seriously, I can't wrap my head around it, so I'm going to need a few minutes.
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#92. We spent an hour together this morning trapped in a box with no way out. And you know what I realized that hour?" "What?"
"I kind of liked a world where it was just you and me
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#94. Aw, you shouldn't judge a flower by who picket it.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Ice princess? Hardly. She was the opposite of cold. Christ, just the sight of her made Matty want to speak in fucking verse like he was Shakespeare incarnate. Genna
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#100. Word around town is you're a bit of a dick-tator.
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