Gabrielle Sands > Quotes

“To all the girls who gave too much and asked for too little—no wonder you prefer the villain who tells you to be selfish while he burns the world to keep you.”
― Gabrielle Sands, Be With Me

“When I look at you, I see the entire universe. It took losing you for me to understand that you are everything to me. There might have been a ‘before’ you, but there is no ‘after’. I can’t function without you. I can’t sleep, I can’t think, I can barely fucking breathe. Without you, I exist in a horrible dark place that’s devoid of everything that makes life worth living.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Loves

“You know I don't like people," Giorgio says, already back at his newspaper.

Allegra's eyes widen, and she makes an awkward laugh. "He means he doesn't like people in his personal space, not in gen-eral."

"No, in general too," he deadpans.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Tempts

“Ras chuckles. "And you wonder why you don't have many friends."

"I assure you that's entirely intentional.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Tempts

“I snake my arms around her waist. “If you knew how much pleasure I get from spending money on you, you’d realize you’re doing me a favor by getting that necklace.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Falls

“Leave the card alone. Whatever my wife wants, my wife gets,” I tell him and hang up the phone.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Loves

“Fuck, she’s pretty. Would look even prettier with my cock inside her mouth.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Falls

“The moment Cleo takes on my last name, she becomes mine, and disrespect against her is disrespect against me.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Loves

“You are the air I breathe. You are the ground I stand on. Without you, I'm nothing, Gemma.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Falls

“You haven’t had dinner. You’ll need the energy if you’re pulling an all-nighter.”
“You’re very bossy. You know that?”
“Don’t pretend you don’t like it when I boss you around, Berry.”
― Gabrielle Sands, Be With Me

“I can be an asshole, and I can be a selfish prick, but even in my worst moments, I’d never tear you down like that.” I kiss her again. “I know my place, baby. It’s kneeling at your feet.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When He Desires

“We were like two magnets reversed—drawn to each other with a force neither of us understood, only to be repelled every time we got too close.”
― Gabrielle Sands, Be With Me

“How do you know the ideal wife in my head looks any different from you?”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Loves

“And for the first time in my life, love didn’t feel like a sacrifice. It felt like freedom.”
― Gabrielle Sands, Be With Me

“No, but I’ve been called daddy on occasion.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Falls

“Good girls didn’t sleep with gangsters. But maybe I was tired of being good.”
― Gabrielle Sands, Be With Me

“But I don’t want you to leave. Stay with me, Vale. Stay with me, and you’ll never have to fight another battle again. I’ll fight them for you. I’ll protect you. I’ll avenge you.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Unravels

“No one else in the band really cared to do it, but for me, it wasn’t a choice. I just had crap that needed to come out, and when the seed of an idea made its way into my mind, it wouldn’t get the hell out until I planted it into existence.”
― Gabrielle Sands, Taut Strings

“Oh yes, because all love stories involve kidnappings, being forced into marriage, and dates that end in a hailstorm of bullets.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Loves

“What you did feels violent, but it wasn’t. By its nature, violence is peak selfishness. What you did wasn’t that. You acted with the goal of defending a friend.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Unravels

“Because the truth is, he nailed something on the head. I don’t know if the fire is real. All I know is that it only really started to come out after I met him.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Falls

“Wherever you go,I go, Sunshine. Always.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When He Takes

“My eyes track her until she disappears from sight. I’ve always liked feisty women. A weakness you could say. And to find a woman like that living in our world? It’s rare.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Falls

“I would rather be homeless than ever get back together with you.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When He Desires

“Here’s the thing with getting cheated on—it doesn’t just hurt, it pulls the rug out from under you. You start questioning your judgment. Wondering if you can ever really know a person. Suddenly seeing all the signs you missed.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When He Desires

“To deal with violence effectively, you need to understand it. A habitually violent person generally isn’t very smart. They can’t figure out how to deal with a situation. They fail to control their emotions and lash out. When you know what to look for, nearly every act of violence can be preempted. Sometimes all it takes is a few carefully chosen words. Other times, you can only stop it with your own show of force. That’s what you did tonight.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Unravels

“breath.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When She Loves

“We don’t get to choose who our parents are. But we can sure as fuck choose our actions.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When He Desires

“We can’t rely on anyone to save us but ourselves.”
― Gabrielle Sands, The Fallen: The Complete Collection (Books 1-6): A Mafia Romance Box Set

“To everyone who’s ever felt like they don’t belong: You don’t need them. You just need a possessive mobster who will love you exactly as you are.”
― Gabrielle Sands, When He Desires