Mara White > Quotes

“Before Jaylee, I was always under the impression that people cheated on their spouses because they were seeking something outside of the marriage that was missing. I’m not sure if anything was lacking in my marriage to Robert. I wasn’t looking; Jaylee just happened. Now I fear that I will never again experience the heights of desire that I feel when I’m with him and I’m mourning it before it’s even gone.”
― Mara White, Heights of Desire

“Love is triumphant, until we all fall down.”
― Mara White, Fear of Heights

“In Spanish, for giving birth, they say, giving light. My ma swears up and down that I was born to save her life.”
― Mara White, Maldeamores

“My heart is racing, my breath coming short, my pulse beating so hard it feels like it might leap out of my skin. I didn’t know kissing could be like that. No, I didn’t know kissing him could be like jumping off into outer space and discovering a whole new universe.”
― Mara White, Maldeamores

“But he loved her, Lucky, like nothing else. A match made in hell but with very willing participants.”
― Mara White, Maldeamores

“I harbor an almost incapacitating weakness- a desire to belong to someone, to be their everything. Not just to be needed, but to be the one indispensable thing. The secret ingredient, the key to someone’s very existence.”
― Mara White, Fear of Heights

“She told me that even though we all know what a little green bud is capable of, it’s still a miracle to watch it happen. I hope when it does, I’ll be with someone who matters.”
― Mara White, Maldeamores

“To whisper goodbye—because this is goodbye, either way, whether he lives or he dies.”
― Mara White, Fear of Heights

“Ain’t no shame in my game,”
― Mara White, Heights of Desire

“Pain fades, even if only by an invisible fraction every day. You keep going, you keep pushing and one day you wake up and you start to function better than you ever imagined you could.”
― Mara White, The Marriage Pact

“Stay with me,” he says.”
― Mara White, Fear of Heights