Morgan Dante > Quotes

“angels have a talent for smiling with daggers behind their backs.”
― Morgan Dante, King of Hell

“She nudges her lips against mine, soft but firmer than the gentle sponge of a sweet cake as I return the kiss. She tastes of vanilla and honey with an undercurrent of something dark, that harsh tang of bitterness after the initial redolence of a pomegranate seed.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“I stand up from the piano stool and clasp my hands above my belly as I wait, finding a dark satisfaction that, as the stairs clack, she’s coming directly to me. I feel the pull of her, her stubborn heartbeat.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“Golden flower. Now, I do not feel like gold, but I feel like a daisy, frail and waiting to be tread upon.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“You thief. You’ve sickened me with a heart, that thing snagged and wrung out by thorns. You’ve replenished it, you’ve stolen it, bled it again,”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“In that moment, I was nothing and everything, torn apart and made anew. I was a hungry animal, but drinking from her sublimated any wildness in me. Ceased to make me think of who I am, all those fears about how she'll see me and what I'll become. It had been quiet and reverent.
We are one. One bloodline, one rhythm, one heart.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“If they know, they can use it against me. Something like this only comes from some ruined part of the soul."
"Perhaps. I don't know. None of us are without sin. They have no right to judge. I don't.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“I thought you were weak, and then I realized how much strength it takes to keep your heart, despite everything.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“He’s blessed, and it’s like he’s holding a piece of the sun. But no, Raph is more. They’ve always been more. He rarely feels wonder. He has lived a long time, and Raphael has made his heart stir.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“He wants a heat hotter than any of the fiery lakes to consume him, so he can feel—so he can have one thing that will never leave.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“I'm not interested in bathing the world red, but I would hope for as long as we live, it might become more just." I stop as I say it, wondering if I mean it, or if this is another instance of me wanting to appear good.
No. I want justice, but I know it won't be dainty and sweet.
I won't bathe the entire world red, but to avenge my injuries, yes, there will be blood.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“Erzsébet, but no saint. I could still worship her.
"It's nothing," I mutter. "I've suffered far worse than this. Thorns have a way of finding me.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“Sometimes, we can only rely on our own judgement. And we must accept that when given our choices, we did the most logical thing we could.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“His fingers burn like hellfire, like ice. “I do enjoy a tragedy.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“when he takes his angel into his arms, he feels like a man who hasn’t had water in forty days and forty nights.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“I sat in a perfect garden of a hundred lilies, and I felt that inferno”
― Morgan Dante, King of Hell

“Another Countess from another country and another time. She's the Fairy Queen of lore, tempting me into the forest's vulva, into her world of thorns and wild berries. I want her to. I want to disappear into the forest din.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“I want to carry you down to the creek,” Cain says against their neck. “Well,” Raphael replies, “please do.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“No matter how grisly fates can be in Hell, souls torn apart until they’re smatterings of viscera, they always find a way to piece themselves back together again. Even splinters have a life inside them. Memories of running down roads and petting stray dogs and curling up beside one’s mother on a bed of hay.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“It’s beautiful, like stars. When I fell, and the room was dark, your soul lit up the room.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“Going where I’m going?” Cain asks at the steps. “Yes, I’ll go where you go. Now and always.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“Michael smells of clouds and ozone, but with a hint of something metallic.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“The way his tongue flicks his teeth could count as an act of violence.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“But come to my bed and hold me, and I can pretend one person in this universe is mine. Let one person stay.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“You don't need to justify yourself to me. Our fates will be what they will be. Now, after what you've suffered, you must worry about giving yourself the life you want. But you don't necessarily have to worry alone. And you don't need to decide your entire life today.”
― Morgan Dante, Unholy with Eyes like Wolves

“If only that sweet smile could be distilled in a glass bottle.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“He relishes their bare skin together, though he wishes that they could be even closer, that Raphael could possess him and be inside his bones.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“But at least being an instrument means being held.”
― Morgan Dante, The Saint of Heartbreak

“I don’t think they do. If Raphael can’t bring it in themself to hate me, they cannot hate you. Unless you’re more hateable than the Devil, which would, when you really think about it, be an accomplishment.”
― Morgan Dante, Going Where I'm Going?: An M/NB Romance Novella

“My darling vampire, we have an eternity. Surely, it’s not too long for that.” Darling. What a word.”
― Morgan Dante, King of Hell