Цитаты из книги Besotted

All I know is when he first kissed me a lifetime ago, he didn`t kiss my lips, he kissed my soul.

„Are you asking me to marry you?‟ „Nope.‟ „Oh.‟

„Sometimes we are given the illusion of choice. Give a man dying of thirst in a desert a glass of water and tell him it`s his choice. Drink or leave it. Is that really a choice, Lana?‟

„The princess is not locked up because she is bad. The princess is locked up because she is precious beyond words, and everyone wants a piece of her.‟

„My love, my love, if you are still living and I am not, then I will haunt you until your dying day.‟

„It`s love. The loved destroys the thing that loves it.‟

„Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.‟

„Hmmnnn… Your son is giving trouble.‟ „What kind of trouble?‟ „He doesn`t want to sleep. He thinks he should be allowed to climb through the window, on to the balcony, and probably over it.‟

I don`t tell him the truth. Because for a moment I thought I was in love with a monster. „Because I love you,‟ I say. But that, too, is the truth. I loved him even in that corrosive, soul-destroying moment when I thought he was a monster.

I don‟t tell him the truth. Because for a moment I thought I was in love with a monster.

Every morning I wake up ravenous for you, then I pace around during the day starving for you, and at night just after I‟ve had you I start to crave your hot, sweet body all over again.

„So I can never again have tea with any other man even under the most innocent context?‟ He crosses his arms. „Exactly.‟

Love doesn‟t keep a record of wrongs.

When our bodies are so fused together that our souls touch. I need to feel complete again. I have been for so many days unwhole.

Here is the man who has a hold on me, on my soul. And he has the keys to secret rooms I have yet to open. They are full of dark secrets. I am scared. Scared for us. Scared that the secrets will defeat me. That he will not give me the keys.

The future frightens me, but Blake is nobody`s fool. He plays his cards very close to his chest.

The entire planet — land, air and sea — has been poisoned by sheer greed, your food is toxic, you are governed by sociopaths who wage war after war with impunity while promising peace, and humanity itself is poised on the brink of extinction. Who do you think is in charge? Your God of love and light, or mine?

I think of Beauty dancing in the great ballroom with Beast. I am madly in love with Beast.