Christine Fonseca > Quotes

“Each memory rips through me, and although I stow myself against the emotions, I can’t prevent the pain that accompanies each image. Pain for a love never acknowledged, pain for a friendship now gone. Pain for a loss I can’t possibly endure.”
― Christine Fonseca, Mea Culpa

“My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything that has happened so far. But no answers come and I’m forced to acknowledge the feeling lodged between my two worlds
Terror.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“She opens her eyes as the fury continues, pinning me with her glare. Her gaze reached into my soul as I spin the music back to the simple melody at its core—our melody. A moment of recognition washes over her, followed by regret, fear, terror. An entire kaleidoscope of emotions exists within a single heartbeat.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“I press my lips hard against hers, tasting her desire, her pain, her love, her confusion. At once I’m in two lives, two worlds, two places.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me; didn’t know I’d relive them every day.
Death would have been more merciful.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“I’m only going to say this once,” I say to tattoo guy.
“Leave me alone.”
“Or what?” he asks.
Thought you’d never ask.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“She’s here, in front of me. Just my luck. I obsessed about her all night, working out a plan to find her and take her soul. After the disappointment in my kill last night, I knew nothing would satisfy me until I had her.
Only her.”
― Christine Fonseca

“Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“Do it, Nesy. Say the words. Pierce my heart. Send me to the Abyss and end my suffering. Please. I won’t stop you.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“I'm more than the flesh and bone that defines me. More than the pain that consumes me and the madness radiating through me. I am a man. And I am still alive...”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“She slips into the seat at our table, refusing to look up at me. I reach for her hand, sending a shiver through me when our finger tips touch. She glances at me, her eyes filled with a feral fear that reaches into my depths, pulling on emotions I refuse to acknowledge. Things I can’t feel now. Won’t feel ever again.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“Nesy. At last.
It has to be her. Who else can make Aydan smile? Make me smile.”
― Christine Fonseca, Mea Culpa

“Some things you just can't hide, no matter how thick the material.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“I don’t want to hurt her, don’t want her to suffer. But the truth may hurt her more. I wrap my arms, my wings, around her as her body shutters.”
― Christine Fonseca, Mea Culpa

“A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I’m torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again.”
― Christine Fonseca, Lacrimosa

“My thoughts war. Part of me needs to protect her; part of me wants something else. Something vile. Wrong.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“There is no point in thinking of what could've been; no point in belaboring the past.”
― Christine Fonseca, Mea Culpa

“She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“Cass pulls from my embrace, her mind reaching into my heart. Pain, anger, confusion pass through her eyes. My pain. My anger. My confusion. She swallows hard. “Because?”
“Because I traded it all, my heart, my memories, everything. For her.”
― Christine Fonseca, Mea Culpa

“Only the living can feel this much pain.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

“She’s right in some ways. She doesn’t need a shrink. But she does need to remember. I need her to remember; remember and still choose me. Choose us.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside.”
― Christine Fonseca

“Tell me you don't feel what I feel."
"That doesn't matter." She swallowed hard.
"It does to me." I brush my lips against hers.”
― Christine Fonseca, Dies Irae