Quotes from Sylvia Day

I was his weakness, when all I wanted was to be his strength

What else can I bargain with? You have everything." "Your time and attention are the two things you can leverage. I'll do anything for them.

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you.

socializing with others is more exhausting than refreshing. I have to consider everything I want to say, and then filter it through my mind before I speak so what emerges from my mouth doesn't offend with its bluntness.

What the hell was I supposed to do, Eva? I didn't know you existed." Gideon's voice deepened, roughened. "If I'd known you were out there, I would've hunted you down. I wouldn't have waited a second to find you. But I didn't know, and I settled for less. So did you. We both wasted ourselves on the wrong people

Panting softly, I licked my dry lips. He groaned, tilted his head, and sealed his mouth over mine. I was shocked by how soft his firm lips were and the gentleness of the pressure he exerted. I sighed and his tongue dipped inside, tasting me in long, leisurely licks. His kiss was confident, skilled, and just the right side of aggressive to turn me on wildly.

Spank me pull my hair bite me

there were indeed some shades of pleasure that could be colored only by another hand

To call either of us virgins would be ridiculous, yet emotionally that was just what we were. Fumbling in the dark and too eager, completely out of our depths and self-conscious, trying to impress and missing all the subtle nuances.

Me moriría si perdía a Gideon, pero me moriría de todos modos si me perdía a mí misma.

murmured, reminding me of the time I'd sung the Sara Bareilles anthem

Let's be clear. There was no us." My smartphone chimed with a text from Raúl, letting me know that he was nearly at the Crossfire with Eva. I moved to the coatrack. "You wanted to fuck and I fucked you. If you wanted me, well … I'm not responsible for your exaggerated expectations.

Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

porque cuando amas a alguien, eso es lo que haces: entender.

If you're going to give him a second chance, I should get one, too.

I'm not going to have what I want from you until you've reached the end of the road with him. I've got all the time in the world. I can wait 'til you get there.

This—he gestured impatiently at himself—is just a fucking shell. You're what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You're my heart and soul. If something ever happened to you, it would kill me, too. Keeping you safe is goddamned self-preservation!

I want this. Coming home to you.

Some say romance novels are pure fantasy because of that happy ending, but the truth is that romantic love is everyday magic and happy endings happen every minute. Falling in love is one of the core elements of the human condition; it touches us all.

It was an Argentine tango, fierce and sexy, and Reed was delicious with it. With his confident and elegant movements, their dance was almost like having sex with their clothes on.

You guys are whackjobs separately. Together, you're a Goddamn nuthouse.

That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn't have rankled—I knew how busy he was—but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.

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It would be another scar to add his collection, another bitter memory he'd always have, a memory I would share and fear along with him, but it wouldn't rule us. We wouldn't let it.