Top 100 J.m. Darhower Quotes
#2. It amazes me, how the pursuit of wisdom tends to turn people into shells of their former selves.
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#3. Uh, I'm thankful for you all, even if you get on my nerves sometimes," Carmine said. "Oh, and orgasms ... definitely thankful for those.
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#4. 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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#6. He might have taken my life but he did not break my spirit. No one did and no one ever will. Don't let them break you. Don't let them win. You fight the fight. It's the only way to be free
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#7. If Luce had to rank the worst moments of his existence, Abaddon's betrayal would be up there with the day he was cast into the pit by his own brother.
Neither came close to the sting of losing Serah, though.
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#8. 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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#9. Maybe Cinderella didn't live happily ever after. Maybe, come midnight, she wanted to run away. Maybe her price wouldn't let her. Mine didn't.
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#10. His thumb grazed her lips, slightly swollen from his hard kisses, as a smile softened his expression. "I didn't think you could be more beautiful," he said, "but then you went and screamed my name." Blush
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#11. I know," he said quietly. "But I also know there's a thin line between good and evil. There's a gray area, one we all step into.
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#12. Reason number twelve, you've got a mini-me out there somewhere, and I kind of want the chance to meet a little Scarlet." "You don't like kids," I point out. "True, I don't," he says. "But she's your kid, which means there's a decent chance she's not half-bad, either.
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#13. 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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#14. He was Carmine Marcello DeMarco ... and even broken, he was beautiful.
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#15. 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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#16. I'm paraphrasing, but yeah, a friend out of the Chicago organization did." "Chicago? You tried planting your seed in the DeMarco family?
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#17. She'd rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. What do you want, Morgan?" he asks after a moment, his voice low. "Just... tell me what you want from me. I can't stand here and do this with you."
"You named me," I say. That's not the first time I've heard him call me by my real name. Morgan. "You only name what you keep, remember?
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#21. 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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#22. Sweetheart, you don't even know the half of it.I envy you more than you could possibly understand.
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#23. Ignazio Michele Vitale," I say playfully, intentionally flubbing the middle name, just to get more of a rise out of him. "I can't believe you were singing a song from the eighties."
"You were seeing things.
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#24. Because God knows, if He ever took Celia from me, I'd burn the world down around us all
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#25. She seemed like a keeper. Housewife material, verses your usual whorehouse type.
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#26. 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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#27. Really?"
"Yeah. I see that asshole every day when I look in the mirror. I don't need a picture of him."
"Thank you," she said enthusiastically.
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#28. I'm warning you. I'm not a good man, Karissa, and I never will be. So don't think you can fix me, or that I'll ever change, because I won't. I can't. You have to know, if this goes any further, if you ask me to stay, I'm not going to be able to let you walk away.
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#29. I happen to like my balls. They accentuate my cock quite nicely, you know. I'd show you, but well... you've got to earn that first. So pay attention, okay? There's work to do here.
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#30. 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. 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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#34. Technically speaking, yes. My wife got too close to discovering that, which is why she was murdered."
Guilt consumed her. "Because of me."
"No, not because of you," he said, his tone serious. "For you.
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#35. I know I should let you go, should let you walk away from me right now, but I can't do it. I can't. I'm selfish, and I'm in love with you, and I want nothing more than to keep you for myself.
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#36. I want to put her back together.
I want to break her down even more.
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#37. You don't have to be afraid," he says. "I'm not going to hurt you." he whispers, "unless
you want me to.
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#38. I think, if he did it, it was just desperation. Because looking at her, I know she's my yellow. She's the happiness inside of me.
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#39. She blinks at me like I've lost my mind. Hell, maybe I have. "Are you insane?"
"Potentially," I say. "You?"
"Am I insane?"
I nod.
"I'm starting to feel like it," she mutters, running her hands down her face.
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#40. Everything I do, I do it in excess; everything I have, I have more of than I'll ever need.
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#41. Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.
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#42. After one last kiss, she stepped away, wrapping his jacket tightly around her. "I'm keeping the coat."
"Okay."
"I'm going to wear it to bed."
"Okay."
"With nothing on underneath it."
Winking, she slipped inside, leaving him on the porch with that mental image ringing through his head.
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#43. A job is a job, sir. If you're doing it right, there's nothing nice about it.
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#44. Everyone needs cowboy boots, she told me, in case they need to ride a horse someday
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#46. Carpe Diem. The words are etched in the metal pendant. Tomorrow isn't a guarantee. Nothing is promised. So today? Seize the Day.
That's how Naz lives his life.
That's how I want to live it with him.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. I'm graduating and she corrected my vocabulary the other day. I said I felt nauseous, and she said the word I wanted was nauseated. Fucked me up, bro. Didn't know there was a difference.
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#50. It's fascinating, watching the surge inside of them
manifesting physically, relief sparking in their eyes when they think maybe, just maybe, they'll make
it.
Maybe they'll live.
Maybe they'll survive it.
They never do.
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#51. 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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#52. The injury therefore that you do to a man should be such that you need not fear his revenge.
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#53. Unspoken questions shine from her eyes, but I don't have the answers she wants to hear. All I have is the truth, the why, and it's ugly. She might've thought she liked it dirty, but she doesn't know dirty. She can't know it, unless she has lived it. Unless she is it.
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#54. My mom used to talk about fate all the time, and I think you're it ... you're my fate. You were brought to me for a reason, for us to save each other. Because you weren't the only one needing saved, Haven. I was drowning, and you rescued me.
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#55. His lips are the softest thing about him, warm and gentle, like a slice of heaven wrapped in hell, so worth battling the flames to feel his fire.
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#56. Remember what Mommy said about what to do when something scares you?" "Name it," she whispered. "Exactly." Her mother's smile softened. "If you give the monster a name, it takes away its power, because we're really just afraid of what we don't know. If
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#57. I close my eyes as he finger-fucks me. I whimper, groaning his name. "Lorenzo."
Pulling his hand away, he reaches for me, and I open my eyes in just enough time to see it as his fingers brush against my mouth. My lips part, and he pushes his fingers in, the taste of both of us on my tongue.
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#58. 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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#60. You shouldn't be afraid to take risks. It might not always work out, you might fail miserably and get hurt, but you'll never know unless you try. And if it does work, wouldn't it have been worth it?
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#61. [ ... ] I'll fucking kill them all. Every single one of them."
Corrado's voice rang out beside them. "Too late. They're all already dead."
Carmine glared at his uncle. "Well, we'll bring those motherfuckers back to life then.
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#62. We keep the darkest parts of us to ourselves until we think others are ready to see them.
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#63. I'm young, and maybe I'm naive, and he's dark, and maybe he's a bit dangerous.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. Never let them see your fear ... it's rule number one. And it's not that I'm afraid. No, I'm not.
I don't fear death.
I've already died too many times before.
I'm a cat with nine lives and I'm already on number twelve. I'm living on borrowed time. When death wants to take me, it'll take me.
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#67. In the words of Meredith Grey, you're dark and twisty, okay?
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#68. I'm not that bad," he said. "I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big -
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#69. He's turned my blood to ice, stopped my heart from pumping it from fear that if it does, it might still beat for him.
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#70. That's not what I asked...I don't care about those boys who might've fumbled around between your legs a time or two. I want to know if you've been with a man.
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#71. 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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#72. No one is more grateful to be alive than someone who thought they were going to die.
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#73. The monster is peeking through, peering at me from behind his mask. He wants to come out. He wants me to play with him.
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#74. Tell me you feel nothing from that. I fucking dar you.
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#75. If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing
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#76. He said I was a pretty little thing."
I kiss her again. "You are."
"He called me a broad."
Another kiss. "He did."
"He said I was your girlfriend."
I kiss her once more, this time deeper. "I heard.
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#77. When you love people, you want what's best for them, and sometimes what's best for them isn't you.
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#78. Besides, books are nothing more than paper and ink, anyway. They're like, dead trees all covered in tattoos, and I happen to think that's beautiful.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#83. I thought I would never experience
a moment more satisfying than last night,
but wow ... these pancakes. Best ever."
"I'm not sure whether to be flattered or offended.
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#84. But you should never jump unless you know you can fly, or at least float. Nobody wants to fall. That's how you end up hurt.
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#85. You make something beautiful enough and people forget just how much it can hurt you.
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#87. The closest he got to being Prince Charming was being a Principe della Mafia, but there was nothing remotely romantic about that.
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#88. He set out to destroy me, but he fell in love with me instead. I fell in love with him, and that's what destroyed me in the end.
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#90. 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.
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#91. 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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#92. Can I ask you something?" Matty's brow furrowed. "Sure." "How do you fix your hair so your horns don't show?" He
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#93. Come home with me, Karissa.
"My breath hitches. "That's not a question."
"Doesn't matter," he says. "Come home with me, anyway.
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#94. Love is a terrible excuse. It's dangerous to lose yourself in someone else.
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#95. I waited a decade," she said. "And then I waited some more. I've waited enough. It's your turn to catch up.
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#96. You and me ... we love differently. But that doesn't mean you don't love her, in your own twisted way.
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#98. Why does society always have to move on to something new when the old still works just as fucking good, you know?
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#99. Ah, that's an argument I hear often," Father Alberto said. "How can a God exist when it seems so many have been forsaken? But you fail to realize, son, without the bad we can't truly appreciate the good.
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#100. Haven, I could never love someone like you, because there isn't anyone like you", he said. "You're one of a kind.
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