Fae Quin > Quotes

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“And I’ll keep choosing you, even if you don’t want me to. Even if it hurts. Even if choosing you means losing you.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“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 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

“any time I’d given someone a part of myself that was vulnerable, they’d crushed it. There was no point trying. Not when I needed too much.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“He was like…a stray cat. You had to feed it treats from a distance for a while before coaxing it forward. Especially…if you were an idiot like me and had thrown multiple stones its way the first few times you’d met.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“I love you” tasted like freedom in a way nothing ever had before.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“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

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

“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’m not a good person.” Prudence’s voice echoed quietly in the space between us. I could feel his vulnerability quaking within every syllable.
“Maybe not,” I agreed, my heart fluttering with something akin to hope. “But you’re my person. And for me, that’s good enough.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“Love meant being known. Being seen. Being accepted for all your flaws. And I knew, least of all, no one was going to look at my pile of dirty socks and think “wow, this one’s a keeper.” I was a romantic. A romantic who was terrified of romance. What a joke.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“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

“I stayed with him, Alex. Voluntarily. For a long time…I think I knew, deep down, it wasn’t right. But I stayed anyway. I stayed even though staying hurt. Because I hoped one day…I’d be…enough? That we’d be happy. That I could be what he wanted if I just folded myself small enough.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“Because I’d known our relationship wasn’t healthy, yet I’d let him twist me up over and over just so I could feel gratitude on the days he decided to help me untangle the knots he’d tied. I was never enough for him. Never what he wanted. Always begging for scraps of attention, perpetually left empty.”
― Fae Quin, Cloudy With a Chance of Bad Decisions

“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 finally realized I couldn’t do this anymore.
I couldn’t live one more minute without knowing what it felt like to be inside him.
Without knowing his heat.
Without joining with him, the closest way I knew how.
I wanted to crawl inside him, make a home for myself beside his soul. Intertwine us together till none of me was left—till we were just…us. Conjoined. Messy. Fucked up, and beautiful. Two half-men, made whole when we were together.”
― Fae Quin, Possess Me! - I Want You To

“God, Richard better not sparkle like Edward fucking Cullen or I was going to have to do something drastic. Like burn the city down.”
― Fae Quin, Bite Me! - You Know I Like It

“Maybe it is time to stop hunting. Maybe it is time to find your way home. Maybe you have punished yourself long enough.” “What if I can’t stop? What if I’m always lost?” “Then I will come to you.” Mutt replied immediately. “Until I breathe my last breath, I will chase you. We can be lost together.”
― Fae Quin, Hunt Me! I Crave the Chase

“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

“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

“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