Clio Evans > Quotes

“I’d found my purpose. A Mothman. An Unseelie. A demonic plague doctor. All three of them had captured me, stolen my wings, and dragged me down into the darkness of their world…I was their dove and they were my demons— and we were the freaks of nature who had found love where no one else could.”
― Clio Evans, Doves & Demons

“Fuck men. I was so tired of dealing with them.”
― Clio Evans, Nocturnal

“I have a hard time believing that the boy who gave me so much trouble growing up is the sweet-talking man in front of me right now.”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“Since when do you care, Cam?” I set my whisky glass down and stepped up to her, meeting her toe to toe. Her breath hitched as she met my gaze, our bodies almost touching.  “I care about you,” I whispered. “It may be crazy. I may not have a single shot in hell with you. But I care, Hal. I care a lot. And I like you more than I should.” She swallowed hard, her gaze dancing with something I couldn’t quite read. “It is crazy. Because if I didn’t know any better, I’d say you want me.” “I do want you. I want you like a garden wants the sun. When I see you, I can’t see anything else. I want you and no one else. Maybe I’ve always wanted you.” I didn’t care if I sounded like some crazy country poet saying those things, I meant every word.  “So you bullied me? Because you liked me?” “I wasn't raised to express my emotions in a healthy way, I was terrible to you for a lot of reasons, Haley. Reasons it took me years of therapy to figure out. Some of those reasons had nothing to do with you. One of those reasons was that I liked you but I also felt threatened by you. And my teenage, dumbass, hormone-riddled brain didn't know how to process more than one feeling at a time. I'm not that guy anymore, though. I've grown up.” “Threatened by me? What did I ever do to threaten you?” I sucked in a breath. This conversation had gone through my head a thousand times, and now it was here. Being honest fucking sucked sometimes, but I was going to be truthful.  “You didn't do anything. It was more that you represented change. Nothing ever changes in Citrus Cove. People are born, live, and die here. But one day the Bently girls show up out of nowhere. And, let me tell you it took dozens of hours and thousands of dollars of therapy to figure out why it was only ever you I was terrible to, but you coming to town, it meant that things don't stay the same forever. I didn't know that was why at the time, but you represented the possibility of more, but also the possibility of loss. And we had just lost my grandmother and I couldn't deal with something new. All that, and I had a stupid boyhood crush on you. But I'm not a boy anymore.” “No, you’re not,” she said, the corner of her mouth tugging. “You’ve grown up.”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“Giving gifts and being prepared for anything were two of my love languages.  Not that I was in love with her. ”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“Back then, Haley somehow became the girl I pined over but instead of self-reflecting, I did stupid things. ”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“Cameron Harlow, you put me fucking down before I kick you in the balls! Put me down!”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“I loved the way he looked at me. It had been a long time since someone looked at me like this, like I was everything they could possibly want in the world. Really, had anyone ever looked at me like this? ”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“He reached around me, his arms circling my body. I gasped as he lifted me, swiftly moving and seating himself on the porch swing, bringing me with him. His cock was still inside me, my back against his chest as he pulled me back.  His hand slid across my thigh, pulling them wide apart.  “Fuck,” I whispered. “I’ll never be done with you,” he murmured, kissing my neck. He breathed in my scent, his fingers sliding across my clit. His touch was a lightning bolt straight to my pussy. I squeezed him as I gasped, my head falling back on his shoulder.  He was getting hard again.  “I’ve had years to dream about this,” he whispered, slowly circling my clit. “Years, sunshine. To dream about holding you just like this. To have my cock buried in your pretty cunt.” “I can’t believe you ever wanted me,” I whispered.  His”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“As you wish, sunshine.”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“On my knees, sunshine. I’m begging you to let me take you on a picnic and spoil you and for you to let me take a ride in that Corvette.”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“My ex-husband stood there looking like he’d walked off the front page of a business magazine. Perfect jaw, perfect blue eyes, perfect blond hair, perfect teeth. Perfect everything.  My worst perfect secret had just shown up on my front porch. ”
― Clio Evans, Hidden Roots

“I like a little pain with my pleasure”
― Clio Evans, Little Sip of Sin

“don’t want to hurt her, I reminded myself.  No”
― Clio Evans, Little Lick of Lust

“I also want you to think about everything you want me to do to you once I have you alone. I won’t fuck you now”
― Clio Evans, Little Souls of Fire

“My chest squeezed, every primal urge in me rising up, urging me to kiss her.  But not yet. When I finally got to kiss the woman of my dreams, it was going to be perfect. Because after tonight, I’d realized two things.  One, Haley was meant to be mine.  Two, I was going to spend every waking moment showing her that I was meant to be hers.”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“Out of all the people I’d met in my life, no one had ever managed to make me feel the way Emma did.  Everyone was under the impression that I hated her.  Even Emma believed it.  But I didn’t hate her.  I was fucking obsessed with her. ”
― Clio Evans, Hidden Roots

“I don’t even care if I share them with another. I just…I’m ready to find my mate. I’m jealous of my friend. Hell, I even made fun of him when he first brought his mate home. But… I’ve lived the life of a bachelor long enough. I want someone who can…who can take everything I have to offer.”
― Clio Evans, Little Sip of Sin

“I wanted to lay out on the beach with a margarita in one hand and a vibrator in the other, not a damn care in the world.”
― Clio Evans, Thieves & Monsters

“Tentacles and diamonds are a girl’s best friend”
― Clio Evans, Cosmic Kiss

“I’d suck his soul out of his dick if that’s what it took to get out of this mess. ”
― Clio Evans, Doves & Demons

“The truth was—even monsters needed love.”
― Clio Evans, Little Slice of Hell

“Nora, if you don’t get on my cock right now, I’m going to kill myself.”
She laughed.
“I’d drag your soul straight back from hell if you did.”
― Clio Evans, Nocturnal

“What?” I gritted out.  “Should I consider her a no go? As in no flirting, no asking out, no taking to bed⁠—” I hung up on him, fuming. What kind of question was that?”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“My heart never beat until you, and now every breath I take is so that I may come back to you.”
― Clio Evans, Doves & Demons

“Even Hades had a soulmate.”
― Clio Evans, Little Sip of Sin

“If you ever hide something from me again, I will kill you.” “Fuck,” he whispered. “When did you become so fierce, piccola regina?” “The moment I realized I don’t have to obey anyone but myself,” I said.”
― Clio Evans, Killers & Monsters

“not all family is tied by blood.”
― Clio Evans, Broken Beginnings

“Driving all the way from Baltimore had made me tired, unhinged, and paranoid. Over twenty-four hours in the car was a long time to be alone with my thoughts.”
― Clio Evans, Hidden Roots

“Even the darkest of creatures had a yearning in them— a yearning to be cared for. To be loved. ”
― Clio Evans, Little Sip of Sin