Virginia Duan > Quotes

“I’ll protect you, Wonnie. Noona isn’t scared of monsters.”

“No? Why not?”

Katie smiled sadly. “Because they’re not real, Wonnie. The real monsters are people.”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“Your love covers me wherever I go, Remi. You’re the interstices of my life, like your spellwork and wards, protecting me and easing my life. Hidden until something breaks to expose its inner workings”
― Virginia Duan, Love As Soft As a Distant Star

“I just want to be loved,” she continued forlornly. “There must be a love that doesn’t require accepting pain.”

Akihiro wanted to say that he could love her like that, that he would never hurt her — that he could be good for her — but he couldn’t bring himself to.”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“Maybe it was too quiet and soft for him to notice, like the light of a distant star in the sky next to the full moon. He decides that it’s time to see if a distant star can become his sun.”
― Virginia Duan, Love As Soft As a Distant Star

“I thought love was like a wildfire, hot and consuming everything in its path. Instead, it’s socks that stay warm and dry in the winter, and my mother’s kimchi jjigae on the stove”
― Virginia Duan, Love As Soft As a Distant Star

“Our love is quiet. You and I are quiet,” he says. He plants a gentle kiss at her temple. “And for the longest time, I couldn’t see it because I thought love was only loud. I thought it should disrupt my life—that love would shine so bright, I had to shield my eyes from the glare.”
― Virginia Duan, Love As Soft As a Distant Star

“Here I was, waiting so long for spring When all this time, you’d been waiting for snow I have been a fool Even the sun shines in winter”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“Katie was easy to fall in love with. It was the living with her that was hard.”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“I’ll make you proud one day, Alton. I will make up for all the sacrifices you made for me.”

Alton sighed, impatient and annoyed. “You already make me proud. Live your life, love. You owe me nothing.”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“He tenderly sat her back on her sofa. He softened his voice. “Katie, are you scared of me?”

The way she carefully made her face blank of all expressions told Akihiro everything he needed to know. He wasn’t sure if he was heartbroken or insulted. He decided he could be both.

“I would never hurt you, Katie,” he said cautiously.

“Maybe,” she finally said. “But men always say they ‘would never’ right before they do.”
― Virginia Duan

“You deserve someone to take you in with intention”
― Virginia Duan, Love As Soft As a Distant Star

“Weep did not adequately capture the way she had sounded, as if her heart had been shattered and she was choking on its pieces.”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“He tenderly sat her back on her sofa. He softened his voice. “Katie, are you scared of me?”

The way she carefully made her face blank of all expressions told Akihiro everything he needed to know. He wasn’t sure if he was heartbroken or insulted. He decided he could be both.

“I would never hurt you, Katie,” he said cautiously.

“Maybe,” she finally said. “But men always say they ‘would never’ right before they do.”
― Virginia Duan, Illusive: A Steamy Contemporary Women's Fiction Novel (A Her Multiverse Book)

“Isaiah fishes around for his favorite beanie and startles when he realizes Remi knit it for him years ago. If he looks carefully, he can see the warmth and dry spells she neatly stitched into the charcoal gray hat. Though Remi does not accompany him into town, she covers him all the same.”
― Virginia Duan, Love As Soft As a Distant Star