Fae Quin > Quotes

“Sweetheart.” Mom’s voice was firm, her arms tightening. “Life is about the journey, not the destination.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I’d learned that being vulnerable was the price for love.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“Honesty very rarely, if ever, ruins good things”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“Love was patience. Love was imperfection. Love felt like…falling knowing there was somewhere soft to land.”
― Fae Quin, You Can Count On Me

“It takes a lot of bravery to change paths so far down the road,” she murmured softly. “But turning back when you’ve realized you’re going the wrong direction? That’s not failure—it’s wisdom. There’s no shame in changing your mind. It’s how we grow. If you never try new things you might never discover what matters most.”
― Fae Quin

“We were the same, him and I. Mirrored pieces of men who didn’t know how to love someone new when the gaping holes of those we’d loved before had left us frayed at the edges.”
― Fae Quin, There's a Monster in the Woods

“I need your pants.” “You need my⁠—” “I need your pants,” I repeated, staring at my brother, Butters, with what I hoped was a convincing expression.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“A home that had a space for me, and all my broken brittle pieces. Where I was important. Where I was loved. Where I was needed. Me. Irreplaceable, in a way I'd never been before.”
― Fae Quin, You Can Count On Me

“With him I didn’t feel like an honorary mention, but like I was the only option. Not because there was no better choice but because I was the best choice.”
― Fae Quin, Bite Me! - You Know I Like It

“I want to be the person you come to when things are too much. I want to be the quiet place you go to when everywhere else is too loud and all you have the energy to be is just…you.”
― Fae Quin, Bite Me! - You Know I Like It

“I could fight him. I could fight him and I’d win.
But that didn’t mean that I wasn’t…tired.
Tired of the fight.
Tired of being strong.
Tired of holding the world together when it didn’t feel like I belonged in it in the first place.
It would be nice if someone else stepped in for a change.
It would be nice if I could rest.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“I’d forgotten how much easier it was to bear the world's weight while wrapped in arms stronger than my own.”
― Fae Quin, There's a Monster in the Woods

“The shitty part? No one had ever actually said shit to me about anything like that. No one had bullied me. No one had called me a dork, or made fun of how obsessed I was with art.
The mean person?
The bully?
It was me.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“Paul Bunyan. But sexy. And mean. Ugh, he was just my type.”
― Fae Quin, Let Your Hearts Be Light

“You know what’s amazing? I don’t need my guard up around you—in fact, I don’t think I even have a guard at all when you’re around.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I wanted to be the standard he set for himself.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“And maybe I didn’t know how to love myself yet—but I knew with bone-deep certainty how to love George-Arthur Milton.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“Hell was waking up every day knowing there was nothing you could do to end the nightmare. Hell was craving the love and attention of the people that would never stop hurting you. Life was Hell.”
― Fae Quin, The Devil Takes

“My dislike of Baker has everything to do with his absolutely smarmy, shitty little smile and absolutely nothing to do with the fact he’s gay.”
― Fae Quin, Let Your Hearts Be Light

“Normally, when I was well-rested my mind was a steel trap. But the eggnog had whittled away my walls. Or maybe that was Ben’s influence. Ben and his observant, gorgeous eyes. Ben and the fact that he was quiet enough to hear me, even when I whispered.”
― Fae Quin, If Only In Our Dreams

“You’re…something else,” I said honestly, softly. The words were simple on the outside, but the true meaning behind them hung like stars in the air between us as I traced the first fledgling petals of a delicate rose beside one of the tentacles on his ropey forearm.
You’re something else meant…
You’re perfect.
You’re wonderful.
It meant…
You’re surprising.
You’re better than anyone I’ve ever met before.
You’re confusing in the best way.
Three innocent words, with a love poem hidden between the cracks.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“Not afraid to fight me. But eager to lose.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“It was a pattern. A beautiful, glorious, wonderful pattern. Like a patchwork quilt, different squares, all sewn together to make what would one day be the stories I told my grandchildren. They’d ask me if I’d ever been in love, and Robin’s eyes would come to mind. His laugh. His smile. The way he was more open than anyone I’d ever met, and yet more guarded too.”
― Fae Quin, If Only In Our Dreams

“You know…” Jeffrey trailed off, his eyes dark and searching. “Sometimes there are burdens that are too heavy for one person to carry.” I had no doubt that it was hard for him to admit that. “You taught me that.” He swallowed. “Because every time I open up to you, I feel lighter.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“I could admit I had a bit of a crush. I mean…. Who the fuck asks for squirrel at a diner? Mutt. That’s who. He was weird, and cute—and he liked to stick his fingers up my butt. So like…that made him kinda perfect? Lying about being a dog, aside.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“There were no masks between us. All his sharp edges fit against mine.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“Maybe all along, I hadn’t had to try so hard. Maybe the only person who’d been expecting perfection had been myself. Maybe my imperfections were what made me perfect. Happy accidents that built the person I had become. It might take me a long time to really believe that, but…I’d have to try.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“It is okay to have regrets. But who is benefiting from your kill?” He was picking his words very carefully and I could tell, his focus written all over his face. “Who are you feeding? It is not you. Regret does not feed your soul. And the only people who benefit from what you continue to pay are the people who hurt you.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“If the sun were a person, it would be Alex. So full of light. Friendly. Exuberant. Enthusiastic.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I'd never been so viscerally affected by someone else's touch. Never felt sick with need, desperate and grateful—like the innocent brush of his lashes against my skin or his soft as sin lips against my throat was enough to make me burst into flames. No sparks. My. Ass. Goddamn fireworks were going off inside me.”
― Fae Quin, You Can Count On Me