Cassandra Giovanni > Quotes

“Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so dark, void of sound and then I heard you sing again—and it exploded. Everything came crashing down on me that I’d been holding in, and then I was just a mess. But I wasn’t suffering in silence anymore. I was suffering from the impenetrable sound of your voice on repeat in my head.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Finding Perfection

“I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny...again.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“I loved him desperately, completely, and he wasn’t threatening to consume me anymore. He already had. Everything that was me was him. My heart, mind and soul all were as much a part of him as they were me.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Flawed Perfection

“Sometimes moments in life are so perfect you want to freeze frame them; capture them within your soul forever so they never fade away—they burn themselves into your being until they’re a part of who you are.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Flawed Perfection

“Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“The closer we get—the more I let you in…the more dangerous this gets. We’re just pawns in this game, and I wasn’t playing before. I was just a piece to move about the board, but I am playing now. Don’t you get it? You’re what everyone wants! But I’m not going to let them win.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons

“I am threatened by the resolve that you are my soul. You are my being, you are every breath I take, you are my home, you are my sweet sin.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Walking in the Shadows

“I know I’m the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Faded Perfection

“The desperation in his voice was misplaced and as his eyes danced over my face I knew he was just as broken as I was. That kiss, those caresses—the feeling of his skin against mine had shattered our perfect friendship. There was no turning back now; having him was the only thing that would make me whole.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Flawed Perfection

“I’ve never had a reason to survive—no reason to question the way things were. I lived because I was told to…now I live because I want to. I survive because I want to know what is outside the deception we’re buried in, and I want to experience it with you. You’re the only person I’ve ever trusted, and now you’re the reason I’m going to fight. I don’t know how we’re going to make it out of here, but we’ll find a way. We’ll find a better life.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons

“No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“Go take a shower, you smell like good sex and unnecessary regret.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Flawed Perfection

“Seconds seem like a life time when the life you lived is slowly drained out of you by those who care not what you felt, hoped, or dreamed. When the darkness comes it is all consuming, there is no light and there is no pain. It is the never ending loss of hope that now consumes me as I die in his arms.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Walking in the Shadows

“Make me a weapon,” I whispered as he pulled away. “Make it so I never have to dream about this again—make it so we can have this…forever.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons

“I feel I've lost every part of me...there's nothing left but the parts I've given to you. I need you to hold those pieces together. Please don't forget who I was...then...then there really will be nothing left.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Faded Perfection

“Tonight they granted at least one wish,” I whispered, and I lowered my head so our lips drifted over one another. “I love you Adam, no matter how lost you are…or I am…I will only ever love you.”
― Cassandra Giovanni

“All that guides me is fear,
And all that finds me is loss
Death defines which paths I cross
It is within the shadows that I stumble
And I am desperate without a voice
Here I am threatened by the resolve that you are
my soul
But if my lies are the path that I have to wander
because there is no choice
Will you love me still?
In the darkness of the night when I wish to do
nothing more than take flight?
Will you hold me to this plane and ease the
suffering and pain?
When all you know is the truth
And all they see is the lies
Will I be the one you find, or the one you leave
behind?
Alone may be the only home I shall find”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Walking in the Shadows

“Everyone wanted me to be the bad boy, the label wanted it, the publicists wanted it, but I was just trying to be myself.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“Writing isn't about creating perfect characters. There's no such thing. It's about creating characters that are real; flawed-- yet beautiful, in that they know they need another person. Needing someone else doesn't make them weak; if they believed all they needed was them self, they would be. A strong heroine isn't afraid to admit that a best friend, or soul mate, is exactly what they need at one moment or another. A strong heroine never stands alone. They stand tall; they believe in who they are. They are perfect in every human flaw, because as humans we are flawed. And in every flaw, I see the perfection of their souls. Writers breath life into simple words and create beings--flaws and all.”
― Cassandra Giovanni

“You’re going to castrate them if they give me a sideways glance?”
He looked at the ground. “I’m not bringing you to the safest place and you’re beautiful, so I needed to warn them.”
“I’m beautiful?” I repeated trying not to smile.
“Don’t let it go to your head, darling.” He said holding his hand out for me.
“You’re not too bad yourself.”
“I know. I saw the way you stared at me when I took my shirt off.” Hunter said.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons

“For so long music has been my heart, but now it's you...you're my heart.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“Love hadn’t existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I’d let all of that crumble.
By letting me in he’d done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons

“They didn't understand, for we were Shakespeare, and they were mere actors in the play.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Walking in the Shadows

“Just so you know I don't really feel like you kidnapped me - it's more like assisted running away by coincidence.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, In Between Seasons

“I've loved many women...I'm not going to lie to you, but it never works...vanity always gets in the way.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“His lips hovered near my ear as he sang to me in that beautiful gravel of a voice, “In my arms I hold the only thing that matters…in my arms I hold the entire world…in my arms is my heart and soul.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Flawed Perfection

“Tad they were too young to die…My Mom was a spitfire—a total accident waiting to happen. I’m like her—I can trip over nothing.” Tad chuckled acknowledging the thought. “My father…he was more serious. He used to give me lectures like no tomorrow, he had a strong sense of who I should be—who I wanted to be and how to guide me, and he was my best friend. It seems like everything I love is just out of my reach now.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Walking in the Shadows

“I know who you are...I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Love Exactly

“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do.”
― Cassandra Giovanni