Parker S. Huntington > Quotes

“I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Suicide is a war of two fears—fear of death and fear of the thing that pushes you toward it. The stronger side always wins. And if you lose, the penalty is death.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Adolescent love is the greatest pain of all. It teaches you the power other people have to destroy you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“I wish I had cancer. Or some other grand battle. Dementia, stroke, organ failure. If I lose those fights, I’m brave. But the thing I’m battling is my mind. And if I lose, they’ll just call me weak.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Sometimes, when I read, I realized I was happiest in a world that wasn’t mine.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“If I tell you anything worth learning, it’s this. Love is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own. You pay for it with grief, tears, and a piece of your soul, but in return, you receive happiness, memories, and life.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies

“The existence of a word proves that someone in the history of humanity felt the same way I did and gave it a name. It means we’re not alone. If there’s a word for what we're feeling, we’re never alone.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies

“Pain is growth. Fear is risk. You can’t be happy if you’re not growing and taking risks.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“If you had to change yourself to be accepted, you didn’t need that person in your life in the first place. Because it wasn’t you they wanted to be with. It was their version of you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“She was broken. I was destroyed. This had disaster written all over it.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Ya’aburnee is Arabic for you bury me. It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies

“You’re going to be a headache, aren’t you?” “A headache?” I cocked my head. “You kidnapped me, you psycho. I’m not gonna be a headache. I’m going to be, at the very least, a deadly brain tumor.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“Tears are the language of grief. And grief is the language of love.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Everyone will hurt you. The key to happiness is finding someone worth enduring the pain.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“Don’t shrink yourself to help others grow.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“It was a promise I shouldn’t have made. One that defied the hardest lesson I’d ever learned. Love is expensive. Its currency is grief. And sometimes, it costs more than you can afford.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“You’re my favorite plot twist.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“you are breathing, and it is beautiful, and i am so grateful for that”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black

“Beasts were never born—they were made.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“You’re rich. We get it.” She yawned. “The only billionaires I like are fictional.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“He taught me strength. Most importantly, he delivered the cruelest lesson of all—there’s beauty in every beast. Thorns in every rose. And a love story can blossom—even from the carcass of hate.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“Love is just being there for someone. It’s that simple.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“if we could just stay this way forever, maybe it wouldn't hurt to breathe”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“Perfection is unattainable. It’s stained by the suffering required to chase it. Perfect is something you think with your head. Lagom is something you feel with your heart.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies

“Books. Rain. Libraries. Driving alone at night with my favorite playlist in the background. Traveling—mainly for the food. But the historic stuff is decent, too.”
― Parker S. Huntington, My Dark Romeo

“Opportunity lasts a moment. Regret lasts a lifetime”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“She uncurled my fingers one by one and pressed my palm to my heart. “Hatred comes from here. When you hate someone, a piece of them is lodged in your heart. If you don’t let the hate go, you live with that person inside you forever.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“They say love is ten percent falling and ninety percent picking yourself back up. What they never tell you is how quick that ten percent passes and how long that ninety percent lasts.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“People assume strength is loud. In reality, strength is silent. It is resilience, the will to never surrender your dignity. And sometimes, the only person who knows strength exists inside you is you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies