Eve Black > Quotes

“I think you should meet with him, at least hear him out, and tell him about the shit Sarah said.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Oblivious to the point of sticking his dick in her? Like—whoa, how did that get in there?”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Back when they’d first started dating, before the pregnancy and wedding, things had been fun, carefree, so fucking easy. Fuck, I miss that. Miss what life was like before it got so fucking serious. Back before marriage to Em became…tepid.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“You’re right.”
― Eve Black, Affliction

“Can’t it wait? I’ve got shit to do.” Like figure out how to get out of taking Sarah to “the spot” again. Twice was already too many times, and if Em found out….”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“She could feel his gaze on her, but…it was different. Before, it was cold as ice, penetrating deep, and only sometimes scorching her with his desire, his need in times of passion. But now…it was…softer, like he was looking deeper, sketching her in his mind, with gentle yet strong hands. When a large, warm hand pressed against her belly, right where the baby was nestled, the air trapped in her lungs exploded out, making her stumble back and her eyes fly open.”
― Eve Black, Veiled Silence

“Don’t feel bad for him, baby. I saved his life, so this is a life debt, one he’ll gladly pay.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“You’re the one who told her it was just a fucking tree! You’re the one who made it seem like that tree, that place, those moments with her meant nothing.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“And he spent the morning devouring her, and she spent the morning screaming for Jesus.”
― Eve Black, Affliction

“But hell had nothing on the question Red uttered into the heavy silence. “You ever been tempted to fuck her?” They waited. He hesitated. Fuck!”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“And she’d further shown him the error of his ways by cutting down their tree. He still couldn’t wrap his mind nor his heart around that. Around the brutal finality of that action.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“I chose you because, out of all the women in Manhattan, you were the most naïve and desperate choice.”
― Eve Black, Veiled Silence

“I’m not mad, and Cilla is just a friend of a friend. It’s not like that between us.”
― Eve Black, Affliction

“It isn’t like that,” Frost snarled, pulling away from his friend, and turning to glare at the men he considered closer than brothers. “You don’t get it—I love Em, I married her, we have a great life together, but⁠—” “There shouldn’t be a but there, man,” Locust interjected. “You love Em, you married Em, end of. Sarah is not your wife, she is not your sister; she is a fucking club slut who only deserves club protection, a clean bed, and a full belly. I don’t know when it happened, but you’ve got your mind and intentions twisted, ‘cause if you haven’t set eyes on your wife in two weeks, but Sarah is blowing up your phone and leaving ass prints in your office couch, then you have got the roles reversed, brother.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Why not, when you’re so willing to betray your own wife?”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“but I know the moment I tell him, almost twenty years of friendship and brotherhood are over.”
― Eve Black, Affliction

“it wasn’t anything special.” Just…a…fucking…tree….”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Do you ever wonder what our life would be like if Sarah hadn’t done what she’d done…if you hadn’t had that emotional affair with her?” That question…it was one he’d been waiting for her to ask. And so he gave her the answer that had been weighing on his heart. “We’d still be living a half-life, me being listless, pridefully ignorant of your needs, and you’d still be reaching out for me, waiting for me to step the fuck up and be the husband and father you needed me to be.” “So you’re saying that everything we went through was for our own good?” Emily asked, her expression pensive. “Come on, you have to admit we were both drifting, living in limbo, waiting for the other one to throw a rope over the divide and brave the gap.” Em rolled her eyes, huffing. “So you’re saying that we’d be worse off if Sarah hadn’t stuck her tits in our marriage.” Grabbing her shoulders, he turned her to face him. “Even the strongest metals are made even stronger when put to the fire.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Just a fucking tree….”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Give this to Sarah. You are officially unstuck from me. Have a happy life.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“but he was emotionally intelligent enough to know what limerence was,”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“I never touched her like I’d touch Em, I never kissed her, offered her anything I wouldn’t offer my sister, and I sure as hell haven’t fucked her—so, no, I haven’t crossed any fucking lines with Sarah!”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“he knew he was using Sarah for what he should be giving to Em,”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Need to get home. Need to break. And break. And break.”
― Eve Black, Affliction

“Nadia hummed, and Vicki tsked, saying, “Is that agreement, though, or is that just him half-listening and doing what men do when they’re distracted or bored, making a noise of assent just to get the conversation over with?”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“But he hadn’t been missing anything, not really—he’d walked away from it, slowly, in purposeful steps in the opposite direction. And Emily had stayed behind, steady, steadfast, rock solid.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“she was too busy glaring at Em who had just taken Frost’s hand in hers, linking their fingers together. His hand was so big, so capable, so warm, and squeezed her fingers—their own personal signal that things would be okay, that their strength was shared. This feels....”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“Patriot: I know I have a lot to make up for and I will. Trust me, baby.”
― Eve Black, Affliction

“But that was just talking, sharing about their days, sitting together, being comfortable, eating together—not once had he wanted to do anything but…be with Sarah. Not Emily. Sarah.”
― Eve Black, Perdition

“it was a carcass, still standing, but in need of culling.”
― Eve Black, Perdition