Amarah Calderini > Quotes

“I clear my throat. “I can never fall asleep. Do you want to come read with me for a while?”
― Amarah Calderini, Tide of Darkness

“Letum has made me realize—you have made me realize—that freedom isn’t some unreachable horizon. It’s being somewhere you’re known. Being with someone who sees you entirely, every horrible part, and doesn’t shy away from it. That is true freedom, Niko. And it’s what I want. Even if I have to sacrifice to keep it.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“How can it not be real when dreams are the truest thing we have?” My voice is a whisper against her skin, caressing the juncture of her throat. I stare at the spot, imagining stroking it with my fingertips. Tearing at it with my teeth. Destroying her delicate neck the same way I’ve been destroyed. “They are stripped of every lie we tell ourselves and every lie the world tells us. There is nothing more ardent in this life or the next than our imaginings.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“It’s like I’ve existed for over one hundred years in a prison of dark, and the first glimpse of light has left me blinded. Now, I can see nothing else. She’s burned into my retinas.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“The devil only tempts people to sin, Darling,” I reply bitterly. “I am the sin itself.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“There is only Willa and my pain. Both suddenly feel buried in my bones. Inescapable. Fated.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“I can be the hero so long as I have you as my villain.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“Because Niko is my anchor and my storm, my freedom and my home. I’d thought to have one meant giving up the other, but now I see a true home is liberation. It is the chance to live entirely as yourself. To never have to shield your messy or your dark. It is knowing you always have a sanctuary to return to.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“Flames stoked higher and higher with every taste of her lips, every brush of her luscious body. I grip her hair tighter in my fist, taking that mouth that’s always poised for destruction and making it mine. My hot little tongue, my lush lips. Mine.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“There is no question, no fallacy, to the way I want Willa. I want her enough to leave me breathless; enough to forsake every vow, every world, without care for the cost.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“Sometimes words aren’t written to be happy. Tragedy can be just as beautiful.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion

“Because love is both selfless and selfish—I’d give up the entire world to keep Niko, to keep my power, to keep Letum, but I will not give them up for the world. I’ll damn it all to hell—everything, including my freedom—for those precious things.”
― Amarah Calderini, Carrion