Elizabeth O'Roark > Quotes

“Funny how everyone looks down on me for what I did, but they don't look down on themselves for being so fucking delighted to hear about it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I haven’t loved many things in this world … but I have loved you from the minute I saw you, and whether it’s today or seventy years from now, I’ll love you with my dying breath.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“People talk about love like it’s peaceful, but it isn’t, at all. It’s turbulent and anxious. It’s euphoria and despair.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“Because,” I say, unable to meet his eyes, “everyone in your life seems to take something from you, and that’s not what friends do. I guess I’d rather be your friend.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“Except spending a morning with Quinn was like being exposed to sunlight after an entire lifetime beneath fluorescent lights. I’m not sure, now, that I can be happy with less.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Parallel

“Home?” I murmur, glancing at him. “I didn’t know humans were allowed to jaunt back and forth over the River Styx like that.” His eyes raise to mine. His mouth twitches. “There’s a small toll. It’s really quite civilized.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil You Know

“Don’t try to tell a man who’s waited ten years for you that you love him more.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“think half of adulthood is pretending to have your shit together when you clearly don’t.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“I want the world to be a different place for the women who come after me. And the only way to make that happen is to ignore the fact that it isn’t different yet. But I’m so goddamned tired of staying silent just to get the things I deserve.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil You Know

“love isn’t an exchange. It’s not something you hand out only if it can be returned in equal measure. Love is handing your fragile heart to someone else because you want him to have it, no matter what he’ll do in response.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“She grins, wide-eyed. "I do. That's why we're perfect together. You never speak and I never shut up. You're so lucky you found me.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“You don’t need to do that,” I gasp. I feel his breath against my skin as he laughs. “Gemma, I’m doing exactly what I’ve wanted to do for two fucking years.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil You Know

“You’re something wild and magnificent, and he has no idea how to take care of you, so he spends all his time making sure your cage is secure because he has no idea what else to do. And that’s why this kills me, Juliet. Because I think I do know how to take care of you, and I want to take his place so bad that it fucking hurts to look at you sometimes.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I hang up, and Ben turns to me. “So who’s the lucky sixty-nine-year-old?” I roll my eyes. “Your dad.” He smirks. “My dad is dead.” “That,” I reply, “would explain why he’s been so pleasantly quiet in bed.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil You Know

“Every day, you and I are witnessing the impossible. We’re having the same dreams, for God’s sake. You know things you couldn’t possibly know, and from the moment I met you, it felt like you were…”
“It felt like I was what?”
“Mine,” I reply.
The awkwardness of that word washes over us both. I’ve never called anyone mine in my life, and she is with someone else. But I also know what I said was right. She is meant to be mine”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Parallel

“I want to be someone you trust enough to invite home, Gemma. And I’m willing to wait for it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil You Know

“They think it’s a slur when they refer to me as a castrating bitch, but all it says to me is that they’ve finally realized I’m not someone to fuck with. I was someone who was fucked with a lot, once upon a time. It won’t happen again.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil You Know

“I don’t care how much time it took, as long as you’re mine in the end. I told you I’d wait forever.”, but I’m glad I didn’t have to.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I want to marry you because you don’t wear enough clothing when you go out, and I want it to be my jacket you wear home at night. And because a part of me has wanted to marry you since the first time we spoke. You bring my entire world into color, and I don’t want to go back to the way it was.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil Gets His Due

“It feels like we’ve already waited forever. It’s like I’ve been missing you and craving you my entire life.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Parallel

“Sometimes it’s simply a relief to be with a guy who treats you like the piece of shit you already know you are. It’s a relief not to have to pretend otherwise.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I get the feeling all your knowledge of my homeland comes from reading books about nineteenth century orphans.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“Sometimes,” he says, pulling the sheets over us both, “it’s easier to hate something than admit you’re just pissed off you’ll never have it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

“I know better than anyone alive that not everyone gets a happy ending. But at least I’m not handing mine away. At least I’m willing to fight for it.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I’ve been confusing comfort with happiness, apathy with freedom. Just like my parents, I’m missing my real life every single day by choosing things that are empty, by choosing to pretend.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Drowning Erin

“I’ve been far from honorable for a long time,” I tell her. “And I’m not being honorable now either. I’m here because I love you. Because I’m so in love with you, I can’t see straight.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia

“I believed I loved him, I really did. And I guess I do love him, but not in the right way. I love him like a brother or a best friend. I just didn’t know, until Luke, that I was supposed to feel more.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, The Summer We Fell

“I can see where a night with you would indeed be exhausting,” I reply as he rises. “I bet you don’t say please or thank you once.” “Yes, because men who say please and thank you during sex are generally referred to as customers.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“Are you...are you wearing my date’s dress?” he asks, horrified. The silver lining to having nothing left to lose is that...I have nothing left to lose. “Do you like it?” I whisper, raising nervous, hopeful eyes to him. “I disposed of her, just like you asked.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“At that moment, there was nothing in the entire damn world I wanted more than her. And it felt like there was nothing else I would ever wanted. It was insane and I'm taking it for the warning it was.
I need to stay away from her.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, Waking Olivia