Greer Rivers > Quotes

“I’m not good, little muse. My obsession with you is the only pure thing about me. Never forget that I’m your demon of music, Scarlett. You can’t expect me to behave like a gentleman when you beg like my whore.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“And I found my muse. She is my moonlight when my world gets too dark.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“My little muse is my addiction, and her voice is my drug. If there is a cure to my madness, I don’t want it. I’d rather welcome blissful oblivion.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“You know my darkness.” I reach for his free hand and squeeze. “I can handle yours.” “But my darkness—” “Speaks to mine,” I interrupt. “The moon can’t glow without her night, Sol.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“I sing for you, Sol. Only for you.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“I could never be afraid of the darkness that loves my own.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“This is your only warning, Scarlett. I won’t settle for ‘first.’ I’ll be your only. Nothing less.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“I loved you when you were only music sheets, roses, and letters. You’ve been here for me longer than I ever knew. I never want to let you go again. I want to be yours.” The words feel beautifully final as they leave my lips. His right hand strokes my jaw once. “Forever? One love, beyond this lifetime?” “Forever with you, Sol, my demon of music.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“You’re my pretty little muse, Scarlett. I worship your voice. Your body, mind, and soul are no different.” “Even the darkness in my mind?” “Especially the darkness.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“You are my moonlight,” I whisper against her shoulder in a kiss. “And you are my midnight,” she murmurs back,”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“If you stay, I promise to give you the best love story ever told, every day, for the rest of our lives. I was forced into the shadows, and I’ve made my home here. But I’ve only ever wanted to share a life with someone. Like my parents shared. The kind of love that consumes you in life and leaves you a shell when the other goes too soon. I used to feel sorry for my mother, but some days she gets to escape to a world where the love of her life still exists. He’s not just a phantom, he is her everything. I want to be that for you, with you. I want one love that survives this lifetime.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“No more dreams, little muse. Only memories. I’m going to make sure you never forget the first time I taste you.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“There is an evil in gaslighting that can be worse than the act itself. It makes you question your trauma. The body and soul remember, and yet your mind questions it, all because someone else’s words weaved into your memories and tore them apart.”
― Greer Rivers, Dreadful

“Abusers shouldn’t get to stay the same while survivors are forced to change forever.”
― Greer Rivers, Dreadful

“Enough insecurity can make even the strongest mind question reality.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“Is madness so terrible, when euphoria is on the other side?” “It is when you lose yourself in it and it makes you behave in ways you never would otherwise.” “Isn’t that the definition of love?”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“Is madness so terrible, when euphoria is on the other side?”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“Okay, but why do you know so much about me?” “Because you are everything,” he answers simply.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“There are so many people who are afraid of mental illness and the ones who suffer from it. Some even go so far as to believe we’re all capable of being monsters. But people who don’t require madness to behave irrationally are more dangerous than us all.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“A sight so precious could never be anything less than exquisite.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“People who don't require madness to behave irrationally are more dangerous than us all.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“With him, your life is in danger. With me? The world is. No one touches my wife.”
― Greer Rivers, Rouge

“Don’t leave.” “Jamais, mon amour.” Never, my love.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“But people who don’t require madness to behave irrationally are more dangerous than us all.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“Why? What does this have to do with us? If Day was connected”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“There it is, baby. Fuck, I’ve needed you.”
― Greer Rivers, Rouge

“It made me hate you even as I fell in love with you.”
― Greer Rivers, Rouge

“You wanted to know why I started to follow you? It's because I saw your darkness that night, Scarlett. Your darkness called to mine. My life was pitch black before you. You were the moonlight to my midnight.”
― Greer Rivers, Phantom

“He holds me protectively, but he fucks me like he owns me. I’ve given in to him completely.”
― Greer Rivers, Rouge