Giana Darling > Quotes

“Men forget to treat women with tender affection and platonic encouragement. Lust was no worthy substitute for pure care.”
― Giana Darling, Welcome to the Dark Side

“He planted flowers all over my body, inside the cage of my ribs, in the fertile soil of my heart, yet he never noticed how they bloomed just for him.”
― Giana Darling, Inked in Lies

“Never met a woman like you. Know I won’t again. You find somethin’ worth keepin’, you find a way to fuckin’ keep it. Not gonna stop, and just so you know, I got it that this could get you fired, that this could cause you embarrassment but what I got to say to that is this: whatever pain and ugliness I bring you by bein’ with you, I promise I’ll bring you double that in sweetness and beauty. You hear me on that, because I may be a man without a normal moral compass, but I’m a man who makes a woman a promise, and I’ll die before I break it.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“Better men could love you,” I said, my voice guttural but strong. I opened my eyes and pinned her with the heaviness of my conviction. “But now, I’ll kill any of them who try.”
― Giana Darling, Dead Man Walking

“Paradise Lost quotes, “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“just because someone is not who you want them to be, it does not mean they are incapable of good.”
― Giana Darling, Welcome to the Dark Side

“She was mine. And I was hers in the way a wolf is owned by his moon, elementally, fuckin’ irrevocably.”
― Giana Darling, Inked in Lies

“Sometimes a person’s got a soul so pretty it makes ’em glow prettier than anythin’ else.”
― Giana Darling, Welcome to the Dark Side

“Made from me, for me,” he murmured into my hair. “The perfect Queen.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“She fit against my chest, in the space between my ribs, in the hole where there should have been a human heart. Maybe that was it—maybe she was my heart, living wrongly outside my body, and that was why I felt this way.”
― Giana Darling, Dead Man Walking

“Loving you isn’t a worse fate than death. The idea of not loving you? That’s what makes me feel like I’m dying.”
― Giana Darling, Dead Man Walking

“If you die, I’ll go on breathing, but I won’t go on livin’ ’cause the most beautiful part of my life would have ceased to exist.”
― Giana Darling, Good Gone Bad

“You’re the choice I want to make every single day, to live to the fullest and love the hardest.”
― Giana Darling, Inked in Lies

“When life gives you lemons, grab the tequila”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“This is what you must understand, Elena. They are wrong. Women bear the trials of their men, the delivery of their babies, the weight of their families. Women are extraordinarily strong. So, you must trick the men into giving you power. Do not tell them you are strong, and do not fight them with words because words can be undone. Fight the injustice with action, lottatrice mia, because action can be understood in any language, by any man.”
― Giana Darling, When Heroes Fall

“livin’ free is the only way to die.”
― Giana Darling, Welcome to the Dark Side

“You lose your moonbeam hair, your bombshell shape and your sexual appetite, I don’t give a fuck. ’Cause I love your soul better than I love anythin’ else and that includes the fan-fuckin-tastic package it comes in. You got me, Lou?”
― Giana Darling, Welcome to the Dark Side

“Love you,” I told him. “Bone of my bone,” he replied.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“She was so fuckin’ lovely in her despair, tragic in a romantic way like Juliet before her Romeo. Of course, even my Flower Child made heartbreak look pretty.”
― Giana Darling, Inked in Lies

“El que con lobos anda, a aullar se enseña. He who runs with wolves learns to howl.”
― Giana Darling, Inked in Lies

“You think I don’t know that under all that thorny sass you got a heart as tender as a budded rose, you can think again.”
― Giana Darling, Good Gone Bad

“I’m not your fuckin’ boyfriend... No, I am your man, babe.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“Yeah, Harleigh Rose was trouble, born and fuckin’ raised.”
― Giana Darling, Good Gone Bad

“Sometimes you’re so sweet, I forget you’re a monster.”
― Giana Darling, Welcome to the Dark Side

“If I’m going to hell, I might as well enjoy the view.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“Not all love stories play out in the light. Some of the best romances occur in the veil of shadows.”
― Giana Darling, Dead Man Walking

“I’m wearing heels bigger than your dick, so if this is a pissing contest, I think it’s safe to say I win,”
― Giana Darling, When Heroes Fall

“Because I love you,” he growled. “Because I fuckin’ love you enough to tear the world apart if it wrongs you, if it causes even a minute of misery for my girl with the whiskey eyes. Never felt this way about anything and I don’t want to ever again.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption

“My therapist told me there was a name for what I had, that furious drive for perfection that had marked my entire life. Kodawari, the Japanese word for the relentless pursuit of perfection. I didn’t so much want to be perfect––which I was aware enough to know was an impossibility––as I wanted to seem perfect.”
― Giana Darling, When Heroes Fall

“Grown women don’t get on their knees for boys, do they Cressida? So, you have a choice. You can tell me to get out or you can get on your knees for me now and I’ll show you how a real man treats his woman, starting by letting you worship my d#$k with that beautiful mouth of yours like I know you’re aching to.”
― Giana Darling, Lessons in Corruption