Saffron A. Kent > Quotes

“You’re in my fucking blood, and I’ll tear apart anyone who dares to fucking touch you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Because unrequited love is like a dead, useless organ. It’s functionless. It’s sicker than a disease. You can cure a disease, but you can’t fix a defective soul.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Bravery is picking up a pen and writing. Bravery is gouging out words from inside you and then imprinting them on a page to make them permanent. Bravery is knowing they might not ever be read by anyone, that the art you leave behind, the contributions you make to the world, might never be known by anyone. Bravery is knowing all of that but doing it anyway.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“It could almost be a story I’ll tell myself when I’m dying. The Harlot fell in love with the Fire-breather. It was beautiful and right. It was wrong and ugly, just like the earth beneath my feet. It was tragic and ecstatic. It was everything I’d hoped love could be.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“A lover is the one who waits,” he paraphrases. “Then, I’ll wait. Forever”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Because I’m selfish, Layla. I’ll ruin you, set you on fire, and won’t even look back. I’ll take and take until you’re empty and hollow.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“You know, Layla, falling in love isn’t bad or wrong or even hard. It’s actually really simple, even if there’s no reciprocation. It’s the falling out that’s hard, but no matter how much you convince yourself otherwise, reciprocation is important. It’s what keeps the love going. Without it, love just dies out, and then it’s up to you. Do you bury it, or do you carry the dead body around? It’s a hard decision to make, but you have to do it.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“She taught me to crave something more than cold and lonely perfection. Something warm and cozy and sweet. Something wild and savage and provocative. Her. I crave her.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“I don’t regret falling in love; I only regret how it happened.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I kiss my darling then.
And my darling kisses his sweetheart.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“He doesn’t even look like he belongs to this world. He is too beautiful, too haunted to be human.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I fell in love with him like dead leaves fall from the branch of a tree and rain falls from a swollen cloud. I fell in love with him like tears fall when you’re sad and like blood oozes out of your skin when you step on broken glass.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“I’ll always be brave rather than fearless.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Love yourself and the rest will follow.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“He bends over me, curls his sleek, cut body all around me, making himself my world. Flicking his eyes all over my face, he whispers, “Dark curls; Golden eyes.” He rubs our noses together. “Thirteen freckles; Flowers between her thighs.” He skims his lips over mine. “Sweet; So sweet; My heart; My sweetheart.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“Some girls fall in love and a boy catches them. He waits for them at the bottom of the cliff with open arms. And then there are other girls. Girls like me. We’re the girls in love with the boys who belong to someone else. We’re the girls in doomed love. When girls like us fall, there’s no one to catch us. Least of all that boy for whom we’ve taken the fall.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“He is like my personal moon—unattainable, to be admired from afar. He is my cancer, slowly killing me, and I don’t even mind. “I’m”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“My heart is not an organ. It’s more than that. My heart is an animal—a chameleon, to be specific. It changes skin and color, not to blend in, but to be difficult, unreasonable. My heart has many faces. Restless heart. Desperate heart. Selfish heart. Lonely heart. Today”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“Silence is the worst response when trying to get someone to notice you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“The day we met you watched the moon
While I watched you.
Tall and alone.
Dark and lonely.
You looked like my mirror.
Cracked and empty.
Dried up and chewed out.
I could have been yours.
If only you had looked at me.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I am calm. I’m cool. I’m a cucumber.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“My soul,” he whispers. “It was my soul waking up. The thing that keeps a man alive, came alive in me when I saw you. You woke up my soul, Violet.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Dreams of 18

“Loving myself means fighting for myself, fighting for my sanity, and I will fucking fight.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“I’m his puppet and he is my invisible master, holding my strings from miles away.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“That’s the worst part of being mentally ill: you don’t know the real you because the illness and the meds fuck with everything.”
― Saffron A. Kent, Medicine Man

“You’re every guy’s nightmare, Salem. Because you’re the girl with too much love inside you.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“His whole presence made me feel warm. Like he was the sun or something. My sun.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“Art is painful, Layla. It's potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It's a beast, and it's always starving. You feed it and feed it... until you have nothing left. But you don't mind because you'd rather chase the high of creating something than live in the darkness. It's insanity.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“What does requited love look like? I want to see it.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited

“We shouldn’t look for love stories where there are none to be found.”
― Saffron A. Kent, The Unrequited