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

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

“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

“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

“I had three seconds to understand what the fuck was happening before my witch girlfriend killed me.”
― 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

“Then, he asked, “How are your feet?” He frowned, looking apologetically at my poor choice of shoes. “Oh, uh, they hurt, but it’s fine,” I said. Wes’s intensity was back, those stormy eyes pinning me with a sudden unquestionable authority. “If you’re hurting, that’s not fine. If I catch you wincing, I’m calling you a car.”
― Maggie Sunseri, The Circle

“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

“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

“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

“People are messengers, even when the lessons they teach us are brutal and unforgiving.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Not everyone will disappoint you, Evie. If you hide from the world, the world will hide from you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“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

“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

“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

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

“I was a fly in a carnivorous plant’s trap, content to be consumed so long as this delicious, addictive pleasure coursed through my blood.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Death is our best reminder to live.”
― Maggie Sunseri, The Circle

“light.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“It was an intensity and adoration I could drown in forever.”
― Maggie Sunseri, The Circle

“and”
― Maggie Sunseri, Stalked by Seduction and Shadows

“I think I’ve always been waiting for you. My soul recognized yours the moment I saw you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“The genuine passion ripe in her blood”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets