Maggie Sunseri > Quotes

“There are many people in this world who would love nothing more than to clip your wings. Stop doing it for them. Soar instead.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“Kylo whispered, stroking my hair. “My love is not contingent upon your behavior. You don’t have to perform for my love. You don’t have to beg for it. Or even ask very politely. I love you for existing. I love you for being you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I will do what’s right for them both, because there is no world without Scarlett. And Scarlett is in love with the world. I would sooner die than let anything she loves go up in flames.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Taken by Touch and Torment

“I had three seconds to understand what the fuck was happening before my witch girlfriend killed me.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“In our kiss, I tasted it—the buzz of fate, the love written in the stars that I’d once believed could only be found between the pages of a book.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“You were always the destination, the tomorrow I sought on the horizon.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Taken by Touch and Torment

“Snow shook her head. “There is no deserve when it comes to love. There are no conditions or stipulations. You just love.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“There is no competition in trauma. None of it is ever better or worse than any other. Trauma is not what happens to you. It’s what happens inside of you as a result of what happens to you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“I was not a moth to a flame. The light had never held much interest to me. It was the darkness I’d always flown toward.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“The stronger are the ones that accept that all pain, emotional and physical, are the most natural and inevitable parts of our existence. Those who find a way to make suffering beautiful again are the strongest of all.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“And you were stalking me,” she added with a halfhearted huff. “I prefer admiring from a distance.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Feel what you feel. But feelings and thoughts are not always reality. Especially when they’ve been planted inside us by those who wish to make us small.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Taken by Touch and Torment

“Good girl, baby, keep those pretty blue eyes on the ceiling. I want you to see yourself through the eyes of a man eternally obsessed with you. I want you to ponder the depths of my captivation as I show it to you with my lips, my tongue, my teeth…”
― Maggie Sunseri, Taken by Touch and Torment

“There was that word again. Reality. I’d never been a fan of the notion. Perhaps why I spent so much time escaping to other worlds between the pages of a book.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Just because someone is drawn to your light, doesn’t mean they’re made of light themselves. Some recognize that you hold something they will never have, and they will do anything, anything at all, to try to starve that radiance until it dies. Because they’d rather you both live in darkness than for you to be the only one to shine.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Her glassy eyes sparked to life at the sound of my voice. It was time to bring her back up to the surface, back to the realm of the living. All of her—body, mind, and soul—needed to understand she was safe now. It would take time, but I had all the patience in the world.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“The truth was often just as painful as it was useful. Liberation was only possible after total destruction of everything we once thought we knew.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Live, Little Flame. If you can survive what you have and still burn this blindingly, I have no doubt you will lead a life worthy of immortalization. Not the kind that has killed and buried my soul—but the kind that lives on with your children and ancestors in spoken word, or ink on pages that make it to strangers across the realm. Live. Burn. And never, ever, let them dim your fucking light.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“She hated how much she wanted me. She hated what I did to her mind even more than what I did to her body. Because I was challenging all of her faulty beliefs.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Desire is the key to our survival. Without desire for food and water, we perish. Without desire for companionship, we grow isolated and our souls and minds decay. Desire is amoral. It’s the trajectory of our intentions and actions that determine our goodness.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“When did you decide you loved me again?”

“I never stopped, Scarlett,” he said. “And I tried, believe me.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Taken by Touch and Torment

“Evie did that cute thing she did when she followed me around like a baby duck.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Reality is malleable. If you don’t like your current one, you can always surround yourself with those who dream of something more.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Then, he fucking spit.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Don’t accept the half-love that you’ve grown accustomed to. Only accept the full, staggering devotion that you deserve. It’s what we all deserve. To feel wholeheartedly chosen, desired, secure, and nurtured. Anything less is theft.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“Artists, witches, and mystics often speak of the phenomenon of two souls meeting here on earth who knew each other in past lifetimes, or on some other plane of existence that we traversed before our lives began. And that’s why it sometimes feels like we know people before they tell us who they are. That’s why certain beings draw us in and others repel us. Because we’re all stuck in this karmic web together, predestined to love and hurt the same souls over and over until we finally learn the gods’ will.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“I am yours, Scarlett, here to protect you, serve you, and love you for as long as you desire.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“Because in my arms is the safest place you will ever be.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“He swallowed. “When the demons in power are allowed to do as they please”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Because you have a big heart,” he said with a cold”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows