Mia Darling > Quotes

“I would chain you to me, if I could

I would be the monster under your bed. The villain who bides his time, waiting for when you least expect it to strike

If I had my way, Kiryusha, I would never let you go

But I think . . . I think you’ve already gone. And I don’t know how to get you back.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Because I’d drag you down to Hell with me before I ever let you go.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Sometimes I missed you.” You know, if “sometimes” was just a less pathetic way of saying, “I missed you every second of every day.” Which was true. I’d missed him every second of every day of every year that he’d been gone.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“I want you more than I want my next breath.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Because I was the selfish one.
If Yarik was gone, then I’d truly be alone. I couldn’t let that happen
even if that meant he hated me for the rest of our lives.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“I’ve wanted you for years. And I can tell you that I’m sorry for watching you the other night, but that would be a lie—I’m not sorry. I’m not sorry at all.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“We were already ruined, Kiryusha.”
“No, we’re —”
“Two ruined souls. Some days I think we might even be two broken halves of the same whole, where darkness meets shadow. You can’t let me go, and I . . . I would rather take my last breath than live even a second without you in it.”
“Even in Hell?”
“Yes,” I admitted roughly, “even in Hell.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Thing is, Mr. Volkov, I’m not lookin’ to be a glorified nanny.”
Holy. Fuck. Daniel Beck had a death wish”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Might never be alone again if Yarik hated me as much as I knew he would after we
were done. Better alive and miserable than happy and dead.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“wondered if he ever laid in bed at night wishing for a hug. I did. No one ever hugged me, and I felt starved for it.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Kiryusha, please.”
“No,” I snarled. I won’t let you go.
Better alive and miserable than happy and dead.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Every page of my life has you written between the lines. You could walk away right now, and that still wouldn’t change how I feel about you.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“Before I could scrounge up the nerve, he muttered, “I’ll never forgive myself,” and it was that quick, how fast reality crashed back down on me.
Because as Kirill made me hand over the gun, and I watched him tuck it into his waistband, it became glaringly obvious that while I’d been hoping we might lead to more, he was hoping that we would never end.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“I hate that I love you so much, I write you these stupid fucking texts just to pretend that maybe you might write back one day and tell me that you love me too”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“there wasn’t anything I wouldn’t do for him. He’d reached for the stars in Moscow, and I’d scoured the skies for them here in London. I needed him to be okay.”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain

“To the way they make us bleed. To the way they make us hurt. Most of all, to the way they fill us with nothing but hope…”
― Mia Darling, Kiss a Villain