Drethi Anis > Quotes

“Her ultimate trigger was and would always be—me. The thought of how my love destroyed her was ripping through me. The worst thing I did was loving her. Was that why she kept hurting herself?”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“there was an addicting thrill in taming an unattainable man.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“The key is to grieve without letting myself drown.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“For God’s sake, Rave. I’m causing you anxiety attacks. That decimates the bare minimum requirement to be in a relationship.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“You’re not going to do anything to Poppy,” she spoke with unwavering confidence. I raised my eyebrows as if to say, challenge accepted, Princess. “There is no going back for me, Axel,” she spoke softly. “Coming home and seeing Jay…” Her lips quivered, and she bit her bottom one to stop the trembling. She spoke again after composing herself. “See Jay has reminded me that I’m not the same person anymore. I’m sorry, Axel. I can’t go with you.” I threw my fist against the door without thinking. Fuck.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“I knew Axel had big plans for himself, but I didn’t expect him to use an unsuspecting woman as bait. He most likely invested her millions into his various causes, turning them into more millions. Now he was living the dream and buying expensive gifts for his mistress—because that was what he intended on turning me into—with the money she funded. My heart waned with shame. “You… you bought me this with your wife’s money,” I accused resentfully.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“You’re bored senseless and only live to make other people happy. Ambani doesn’t appreciate you and only wants a wife for display. That relationship is nothing but servitude.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“I gave Raven every ounce of my heart, and watching her fuck my brother snapped me out of it. I was finally free of her love. There was nothing called love inside of me anymore, so now we could be friends.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“I was pissed at him for the prank he pulled earlier this week. That jerk spent a large sum of his money (and time) purchasing identical replicas of all my clothes, then swapped them out with a smaller size. It took me days to figure out what he did.”
― Drethi Anis, Lust

“From what you tell me, Sara is a creature of sacrifice. She’s devoted her life to helping others. If you want to fix things with her, show her that you can also sacrifice what you desire for those in dire circumstances. After all, love itself is the ultimate sacrifice. Even the words falling in love carry the connotation that one must fall,”
― Drethi Anis, Lust

“I ended up doing an intensive search on whether psychopaths could love their children. There were various platforms where psychopaths could answer anonymously, and a few chose to do so. One of them said, and I quote, “No, I do not love my children, but I make them believe that I do.” Another said he viewed his children as possession, his to do as he pleased, and cared for them the way he would any other piece of property.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“Dance must be the way to a woman’s heart. By the time the music stopped, I was positive I had fallen in love with the beautiful stranger. Yes, it was absurd to be enamored after one dance. This strong of a reaction to a man I had known less than twenty-four hours was nonsense”
― Drethi Anis, Lust

“I had hoped it would work out between us. This scene in front of me changed those hopes. Those possibilities and optimism were now gone, tarnished. Raven fucked my brother. There could never be an “us” after that. She had sealed the deal.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“From what you tell me, Sara is a creature of sacrifice. She’s devoted her life to helping others. If you want to fix things with her, show her that you can also sacrifice what you desire for those in dire circumstances. After all, love itself is the ultimate sacrifice. Even the words falling in love carry the connotation that one must fall, potentially hurting and sacrificing”
― Drethi Anis, Lust

“Rave, you're so out of touch with your emotions that you don't understand your own feelings. You love me, but it's like you can't access that part of yourself. Why are you doing this to yourself? Why are you doing this to me?" He looked at the end of his rope, which wasn’t good news for me.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“It also answered the age-old question, could you love two people simultaneously? The answer is yes.” The banging on the glass pane intensified so loudly that my voice could barely be heard over it. “I fell in love with you instantly on the night I met you. I fell in love with Jay over time as we built a life brick by brick. Loving you didn’t mean I couldn’t love him, too. It was incomparable, like apples and oranges.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“I finally loved her more than I loved myself, enough to say the words I never thought possible. “I won’t force you to seek professional help, but I'll let you go if being around me is destroying you. I'll do anything as long as you don’t have to lose yourself.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“You are my family now. There it was; Jay had put it in simple yet profound terms. I was his family now, and he was mine. Just like that, we had become each other’s everything and came above everyone else in this world. It suddenly dawned on me that the things Dadi wanted for me had come true. Trust, respect, and life with a man deserving of me. I trusted Jay and shared the news of my pregnancy with him before anyone else. We bought this house together to raise our family and build a life.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“I had poured my heart out in that email, outlining my lifelong obsession. Did he finally understand the extent of my feelings? “You want to be with me despite everything you read?” I couldn’t help but ask. He huffed like I was being ridiculous. “Yeah, Bunny. I fucking want to be with you.”
― Drethi Anis, Discord

“However, I didn’t have any physical attributes in common with him, including our skin color. While no one contradicted us when we disclosed our relation, their faces often twisted with bafflement. It was one thing for family members to look different but differing in race was a game-changer.”
― Drethi Anis, Lust

“She screamed my name and said she was mine. She gave me what I needed, but deep down, she knew the same truth I did. She isn’t mine. I am hers.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“Those fifteen minutes are just ours.”
― Drethi Anis, Essential

“I smiled sadly. “I didn’t say you were incapable of loving me,” I breathed. “You’re incapable of loving her.” Axel was quiet on the other side. He didn’t refute the words, and I didn’t need him to.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“I couldn’t live life denying what we meant to one another. She’d always be my best friend and my other half. I couldn’t change that. Our codependency on each other was unconventional, but it was also the only thing that made me complete. So, I negotiated with myself. I’d allow myself small glimpses of her, and it’d be enough to make me feel but not enough to destroy me.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“will love you until my very last breath. But I hope you understand why only one of us can remain in your life because I finally understand why it had to be him.”
― Drethi Anis, Essential

“Raven had ruined me for other women. Even before we got together, fucking other women was hollow. I couldn't get off unless I thought of her. Empty fucks. At the time, I attempted to end my inappropriate feelings and move on from the girl who lived under my care. Now, I knew there was no one else for me. Other women ceased to exist the moment I was inside her.”
― Drethi Anis, The Quarantine Series: The Complete Box Set

“Axel had been scouring to find material on my husband. A blaring, nasty voice screamed that Jay was having an affair, despite the rational voice soothing that he’d never. And even if Jay were having an affair, infidelity wouldn’t be why a high-profile marriage like ours would be allowed to end. It could only mean one thing. Axel didn’t simply find evidence of Jay having an affair; there was more. He no longer cared if I served Jay with divorce papers, and there could only be one reason why Axel wouldn’t care about me leaving Jay. It was because Jay was already leaving me.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“There it was, the one thing Daddy couldn’t buy for her and the only thing Poppy wanted in life—her father’s empire and the family’s respect.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession

“In your dream, did you give that voice an answer?” “Yes.” Michael’s head was turned toward the window, his intense gaze staring out as he awaited my response. The insinuation was clear. Michael told me this story because he didn’t want me to be so quick in giving up things that were real. Unfortunately for his efforts, “I chose lust.”
― Drethi Anis, Lust

“My instructions had been explicit; remove all traces of Ambani. I had a feeling Piya wouldn’t be susceptible to the suggestion and tasked my head of security detail, Levi, with stirring up trouble for Ambani at his home office in Chicago. Asshole had to return on an impromptu flight. It would’ve been a cleaner break had Piya told him it was over before he left. Piya will eventually learn I’ll always be one step ahead of her AND have a backup to make things go my way.”
― Drethi Anis, 5000 Nights of Obsession