Quotes About Intensity

Yes," he growled, "yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.

I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

I look at you, Masha, and it is like drinking cold water. I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.

She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart—something irremovable and constant.

How long was it, between the time when you were happy, and the time when you wanted to kill him?

he did love her, even if it was beef-love: stupid and tough and overcooked.

Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could.

Here's what you have to understand about intergalactic civil wars: they're functionally identical to the knockdown, door-slamming, plate-smashing, wall-penetrating, shriek-sobbing drama of any high-strung couple you've ever met.

Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could. Yes, she thought, magic is like that, when it comes.

It was like butterflies on meth in his stomach

Even though Jäger tastes like if you put a gun to a licorice plant and threatened it until it peed.

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women,--or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me.

let us forever serve this one master, so that a passion far grander and keener may burn in my soft marrow.

I was more addicted to self destruction then to the drugs themselves ... something very romantic about it

She filled herself entirely with the molten dark.

Be the flame, not the moth.

ANIMA Ma dimmi, eccellenza e infelicità straordinaria sono sostanzialmente una cosa stessa? […] NATURA Nelle anime degli uomini […] si può dire che l'una e l'altra cosa sieno quasi il medesimo: perché l'eccellenza delle anime importa maggiore intensione della loro vita; la qual cosa importa maggior sentimento dell'infelicità propria; che è come se io dicessi maggiore infelicità. ( Dialogo della Natura e di un'Anima )

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying was hers.