Candice Clark > Quotes

“Look. Look at you. How could anyone, including yourself, see you as anything other than a goddess?”
― Candice Clark, The Fence and the Musician

“Looking up at her, I ask “Don’t I need to get you ready”.

“I’ve been ready since the day we met.” she says.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“First of all, there’s nothing I can’t have. If I see something I want, even if it’s not actually in my possession yet, it’s already mine. Secondly…” I let my voice trail off as I move the hand that’s not anchoring her against me, running it down from her hip to the bare expanse of thigh exposed by the short hem of her dress. Skimming my palm up, my hand makes its way underneath her skirt until it comes into contact with the scrap of silk covering the juncture of her thighs. Cupping her, I whisper, “...mine.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Some subconscious part of me whispers that my heart chose his, long before my head ever recognized a decision had been made.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Tell me you’re mine. That you’ve always been mine”. I know I’m using the vulnerability of this moment to put her in an impossible position. Forcing her to admit the truth of her feelings for me.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“You’re it for me. You always have been. So yes, I’m a thief. But for once there’s something that I want to own without having to steal it. Your heart. The real one. I need you to give it to me freely.”
― Candice Clark

“She smelled so fucking good that even now, hours later, I feel as though her scent is haunting me. Following me around Charleston, like one of the many ghosts that inhabit this city.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“She wants me to come dance with her? There’s no fucking way. I know the minute I get my hands on her, I’ll lose all semblance of control. That thought is overridden, however, when I see another guy, who clearly can’t read the room, dance up behind her and put his hand on her hip. My hip.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“She bites down on my fingers, not enough to hurt but enough to get my attention.

Oh, baby, you've had my attention for a long time.”
― Candice Clark, The Fence and the Musician

“You may sell the art but the artist herself already belongs to someone and that someone would sooner cut off your hands than allow you to depreciate the value of his most prized possession. Are we clear?”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“The only fear I want her to feel from me is in the bedroom.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“From the day she walked into that parlor, with her squeaky sneakers and paint smudges on her cheek, she’s been mine. No other eventuality existed. I won’t allow it.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’m gonna come inside you, Mia. And then I’m gonna watch my cum run out of you before I use my fingers to push it back inside where it belongs. By the time I’m done with you, you’re gonna wake up tomorrow wondering if my baby is already growing inside you.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I huff out a small breath of astonishment. The painting is a perfect metaphor for our relationship. She’s lost in the throws of the kiss, living in the moment, while I’m lost just looking at her.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Uh uh, Mia. Every sound from your pretty little mouth belongs to me. I wanna hear what my cock is doing to you. Tell me what you feel. Paint me a picture, baby.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“As I take a slow inhale, drinking in that scent that’s so uniquely hers, I feel her exhale a heavy breath of her own. I breathe in, she breathes out. We’re two halves of the same whole. Our parts just don’t work properly unless we’re together.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Because when all’s said and done, I’d allow her to walk me straight through the gates of Hell, as long as she was holding my hand.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Looking into those eyes had felt like drowning, and it was then that I’d realized air was overrated.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I love the way you smell. That scent follows me everywhere. I even smell it in my sleep.”, he murmurs against my skin.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Before I even have a chance to get anything out, however, her hand clamps over my mouth.
"Don't. Talk," she says on a shuddering breath.”
― Candice Clark, The Fence and the Musician

“I don’t know why, but his tone and short reply have me glancing up to meet his eyes. They were still annoyed, but there was something else there now. Something that burned me.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Please believe me when I say that there is nothing I wouldn’t do for that girl, murder included. I would end your life right now if she asked me to and I wouldn’t blink twice.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’ll steal the painting, collecting her work as though they’re pieces of her broken heart, that I intend to glue back together. And I guess, in a way, they are. And once I have all the pieces and it’s fully functioning again, I’ll offer it back to her in the hopes that she’ll tell me I can keep it.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“I’m not big on religion but the way he groans out my name in return makes it sound like a prayer. I have one last coherent thought before all sense leaves me and that’s that maybe Heaven is real and it just so happens to be wherever he is.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Linii sud'by perepleteny syurprizami.” Fate lines are twisted with surprises.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“Touch me.” I gasp.

“I am touching you. I can’t stop touching you.” He sounds angry with himself. I don’t know why. This is every fantasy I’ve ever had, come to life.”
― Candice Clark, The Thief and the Painter

“The only thing that matters is me and her and this heartbeat.”
― Candice Clark

“The woman was fucking infuriating.

Incapable of compromise, stubborn to a fault, and, God help me, the most stunning creature I've ever had the misfortune of fucking.”
― Candice Clark, The Fence and the Musician

“Some things transcend human understanding and whatever this feeling is that Siren's planted within me has taken root and I have a bad feeling that trying to remove it will do permanent damage to my insides.”
― Candice Clark, The Fence and the Musician

“I’m really glad you weren’t jerking off in there because I feel like that would’ve made this meeting reeeeeally awkward”, says Agent Kapranov, his accent barely discernible beneath a heavy layer of amusement.”
― Candice Clark