A.M. Rose > Quotes

“I chose you. Nothing and no one will change that choice.”
“Not even your soulmate?”
“I feel like maybe I know myself better than the universe knows me. I know what’s right for me. What makes me happy.”
“And what’s that?”
“You.”
― A.M. Rose, Faces

“Maybe you’re right. I mean…how could I have known he was lying? Not like I know what it’s like to be loved. Nobody ever loved me,” he said, refusing to allow himself to cry.
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"You do know what love looks like, darling,” Darian said, brushing a tear away from his lashes with his thumb. “It’s drawing hearts with flowers in a bathtub. It’s pretending you like oatmeal because the other person can’t eat anything else for a couple of weeks. It’s allowing someone to move everything in your greenhouse around just to see them smile proudly at the good job they’d done. It’s taking care of each other, spending time together, wanting to be with someone forever. You do know what it’s like to be loved, Tate, because I love you.”
― A.M. Rose, Heartwood

“Have you looked in a mirror lately, big guy?”
“Of course,” Arne said, smoothing his hair. “How do you think I achieve this level of greatness every day?”
Kiran rolled his eyes. “I don’t know. Delusion?”
“Exactly.”
― A.M. Rose, Dream

“Don’t really see the point in it. If I can forgive, I forgive, if I can’t, I forget and move on. There’s too many wonderful things in life to waste time on grudges,” Darian said.”
― A.M. Rose, Blindspot

“I’m saying to do what your heart is telling you to do, not what your fears are demanding you do.”
― A.M. Rose, Blindspot

“I possess all my mental faculties. And they all had a meeting and declared you’re the prettiest. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules.”
― A.M. Rose, Still

“You know,” Rio said, “I always knew I was amazing, but I must have been better than even I knew to deserve a mate like you.”
― A.M. Rose, Fire

“He wanted to take Hart apart piece by piece. It was easy to get lost in a moment. To fuck. That wasn’t what Cane wanted. Cane wanted to own Hart. He wanted him to beg for it. To be lost without him—an addiction he couldn’t quit.
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All he needed to do was give in and Cane would give him everything. He could tear the world apart and lay it at Hart’s feet if he wanted it.
All Cane wanted in return was him.
Wholly.
Completely.
Not the facade he showed the world.
He wanted every ragged, imperfect inch of him. The places he’d seen in glimpses. The places Hart tried to guard from him and lock away.”
― A.M. Rose, Fool Me Twice

“Be a grown-up,” she told him.
“No.” He crossed his arms over his chest, pouting. “It sucks, and I don’t like it.”
― A.M. Rose, Bond

“Got any food in your apartment, or are you planning on continuing your diet of sunshine and dust bunnies?”
He let out a loud laugh at her description of his god-awful kitchen skills. “I wasn’t that bad.”
“You didn’t even have cockroaches in your old apartment, your food was that rotten.”
“They were just snobbish and spoiled.”
― A.M. Rose, Mischief

“A shovel is your idea of romance?”
“No, a shovel is a symbol,” Fire said.
“Of your imminent demise at the hands of an annoyed mate?” Rio asked, and Fire had the audacity to laugh at him.
“Of the work I’m going to put in to make sure you’re getting what you dreamed of,” Fire said, and Rio sputtered.”
― A.M. Rose, Fire

“The insane craving he’d felt for Luc all day drained away, and all he felt was safe. Protected by the devil himself. He drifted off feeling a hand petting his hair.”
― A.M. Rose, Hellfire & Bowties

“The moment I found you, things started to clear up,” Lorin said.
That’s how it should be. I’ll always be here to guide you forward. I never want you to feel lost with me, Kit wrote. But you walked this path yourself. I was just waiting at the end of it so we could walk the rest together.”
― A.M. Rose, Found in Obscurity

“Trust me, the list of things that would make me happier than coming up with you has exactly zero items on it,” Felix assured, running the back of his fingers over Nick’s cheek and leaving tingles in its wake. “But I want you to invite me when I know you won’t wake up to regret it.”
― A.M. Rose, Whirlwind

“Go get ready. I’ll deal with your brother.”
“That didn’t sound ominous at all,” Ash said, frowning and looking between them.
“It’s only your face I want to rearrange. I quite like his,” Cane said in a bored tone.”
― A.M. Rose, Fool Me Twice

“She was fragile looking and tiny, but Sage was convinced that the only reason she was still alive was because the devil was too afraid to let her come to hell.”
― A.M. Rose, Daydream

“I need them to know. Because you help me function. You keep me going. You’re what keeps me sane and makes me happy and they need to know that you’re a permanent part of my life. A necessity. I want you there with me. I’m not hiding you or me anymore.”
― A.M. Rose, Fool Me Twice

“And where do you think I’m going?” he asked with that familiar playful smirk on his swollen lips.
“I don’t care,” Doc said, trying not to fixate on his mouth. “All I know is that I’m coming with you.”
― A.M. Rose, Still

“I just don’t want to hurt him,” Vid said. “I don’t want him to be stuck with someone who isn’t a good mate to him. I want to be enough…”
“And you are,” Jude said. “Just because you’re human doesn’t mean it means less or that it’s worth less. In a way, I feel like it’s more.”
“What do you mean?” Vid asked.
“You chose him. You choose to love him day in and day out,” Jude said. “Destiny, or the universe, or whatever else decided you were it for him, and I was it for Kiran, but you and I…we picked for ourselves. We had all the options, and we picked them.”
― A.M. Rose, Bond

“Confidence is ninety percent bullshit and ten percent knowing what you’re doing.”
― A.M. Rose, Dream

“I’m so happy I found you,” Kiran said
Jude’s breath hitched with emotion. “I’m happy I was found.”
― A.M. Rose, Storm

“He’d tried again and again to put his trust in people who didn’t deserve it. Until he just couldn’t anymore.”
― A.M. Rose, A Thousand Cuts

“I don’t care. I’ll be as cheesy as I want to,” he said, and Mason lifted his head and quirked an eyebrow at him.
“Oh yeah?”
“Yup. I’ll hold you every night. I’ll kiss you any chance I get. I’ll text you a million times a day when we’re not together to let you know I’m here, I’m thinking of you. I’ll buy a new camera and take photos of you and then complain how none of them are even close to capturing how beautiful you are…”
― A.M. Rose, Blindspot

“I like your laugh,” Vid said softly, and Mateo looked at him in shock, a blush sitting high on his cheeks.
“You make it easy to laugh,” Mateo countered.”
― A.M. Rose, Bond

“[...] If you don’t really want to wait for your person, you could go out and find anyone. Someone more…I don’t know. Just more."
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“How can there be more?” he asked, and Dorian frowned.
“What?”
“How can there be more than you?”
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“How can there be more, when you feel this good in my arms?” he said, pulling him closer.
“How can you think there can be more when you taste like this?” He pecked his lips again. And again. And again.
“How much more could there be when the thought of you close to me makes me go insane?” he said, lowering his head and kissing the soft skin just behind his ear, hearing him moan quietly.
He took his hand and placed his palm in the middle of his chest, allowing him to hear his heartbeat.
“How can there be more when this is what you do to me?” he whispered into his ear, kissing the shell of it right after his words, and Dorian caved.”
― A.M. Rose, Faces

“Where we walked around, you took photos of your favorite things in Daydream. Like a little reminder that it’s not all bad,” Mason said, and Drew fell silent for a moment, turning the camera in his hands.
“They’re all photos of you,” Drew admitted, and his voice quivered around the words.”
― A.M. Rose, Blindspot

“If you wake up in the morning and feel no pain, it is to be feared that you died in the night.”
― A.M. Rose, Fool Me Twice

“A victim of a curse falling for the hot cursebreaker who saved their life?” he said. “I might be a lot of things, but I refuse to be a cliché.”
“What about a hot cursebreaker falling for the curse victim they were sent to save?” Ash asked, and Morgan stared at him, barely noticing how close they were, too focused on the words spilling between them. “I have zero issues being a cliché.”
― A.M. Rose, Like a House on Fire

“It’s not worth it. Risking missing out on something amazing because you’re busy putting yourself down.”
― A.M. Rose, Heartwood

“Why are you like this?” he asked, exasperated, and Felix actually gave the question serious thought.
“I always assumed Mother Nature had a burst of inspiration the day she made me,” he said, walking towards the door.”
― A.M. Rose, Whirlwind