Yoela O. > Yoela's Quotes

“Diplomacy was never my strong suit and my patience had run dry. I crouched and called out, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." [...]
"Kitty, kitty?" asked a level male voice.[...]
"What kind of woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?" he asked.
"One of a kind". I murmered the obvious reply.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“some things in life only happen once, the memories of them lasting forever. they're moments that alter you, turning you into a person you never thought you'd become, but someone you were always destined to be.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“Love means seeing beauty in the ugly, the light in the dark, and accepting that even if the lights are off, and I can't see what's in front of me, there will be something there to guide my way.
Love means turning yourself inside out, handing yourself over to somebody else, and trusting them.. trusting them to touch you, to handle you, to bend you, but never, ever break what you give them.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“He set out to destroy me, but he fell in love with me instead. I fell in love with him, and that's what destroyed me in the end.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“He's a monster, wrapped up in a pretty package. But I find myself wondering at times like this, when I feel the distance between us, if maybe in his eyes, the real monster is me.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“Change doesn't happen overnight. There's no button that's pushed to magically alter everything. Change happens little by little. Day by day. Hour by hour.
It's the ticking of a secondhand, moving painstakingly, as it makes its way around the clock. You don't realize it until it's already over, the minute gone forever, as you're thrust right into the next one, the time still ticking away, whether you want it to or not.
Before long you have a hard time remembering the world as it once was, the person you were then, too focused on the world around you instead.
A world full of promise. A world full of excitement.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“A real man would never abandon his family.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“I like to think I'm one of a kind.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“If what he
says is true, that makes him my savior… my knight in shining armor, even if I refuse to buy into
being the damsel in distress.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“We waste too much time looking for the next thing and not appreciating what we have right now… and right now, what we have, is endless opportunities.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“It amazes me, how the pursuit of wisdom tends to turn people into shells of their former selves.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“Love and hate… it’s not a far stretch from one to the other. They both take passion, someone getting under your skin and consuming you. And I ate you alive, sweetheart. You never had a chance.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“He set out to destroy me, but he fell in love with me instead.
I fell in love with him, and that’s what destroyed me in the end.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“Change doesn't happen overnight. There's no button that's pushed to magically alter everything. Change happens little by little. Day by day. Hour by hour. It's the ticking of a secondhand, moving painstakingly, as it makes its way around the clock. You don't realize it until it's already over, the minute gone forever, as you're thrust right into the next one, the time still ticking away, whether you want it to or not. Before long you have a hard time remembering the world as it once was, the person you were then, too focused on the world around you instead.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That's the beauty of it all.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“When you love somebody, you want what's best for them… but when you're in love with them, you want them for yourself. And they're not always the same thing. Just because I want you, doesn't mean I'm the best thing for you… because I'm not. I know I'm not. It isn't easy to reconcile. Because I know I should let you go, should let you walk away from me right now, but I can't do it. I can't. I'm selfish, and I'm in love with you, and I want nothing more than to keep you for myself.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why me?"

He stares at me for a moment. "Why not you?”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes

“When you love people, you want what's best for them, and sometimes what's best for them isn't you.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“I'm not a good man," he says, "but I'm trying. I'm trying. I can't make you any promises of perfection. I can't promise I'll be what you deserve, or what you need, or even what you always want. All I can promise is that I'll love you until the day I die, and I'll spend every moment I'm alive trying for you.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“Grief isn't something you can finish; it isn't something with a beginning and an end. Grief is something you absorb, something you accept. But in order to learn to live with it, you still have to live.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“People make mistakes. They do things sometimes that you don't like, that you wouldn't do. But that doesn't mean you should give up on them, that you should write them off. Because nobody is hopeless as long as they're still breathing.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“Every step you take—everywhere you stand—the ground beneath your feet is tainted by some kind of casualty. It's an inescapable fact. Nothing is untouched by death. Nothing.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“Say what you mean and mean what you say or don't say anything at all.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“Sometimes secrets have the power to kill. The power to destroy. We each hold nuclear weapons inside of us.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“We're a tragedy in the making. The game of tug-of-war we're playing will end up destroying us, because she doesn't have it in her to surrender, and I can't let go.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul

“They say when seeking revenge, dig two graves, one for you and one for them.”
― J.M. Darhower, Torture to Her Soul