Apocalyptic Romance Quotes

“Sara. Sara, Sara,” He breathes, kissing my eyelids, my cheeks, my lips, my chin. “I confess your earlier apologies moved me, but they are unnecessary all the same. You needn’t ask for my forgiveness-you already have it and more, if you’ll but take what I offer.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“He kisses the column of my throat, right down to the hollow at the base of it. “You have my mercy, my mind, my adoration, my body, my… life.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“When God closes a door, sometimes He breaks your heart.

The Sadistic Narcissistic: To Love a Ghost”
― Christie Christie

“Sometimes when God closes a door, He breaks your heart."

The Sadistic Narcissistic: To Love a Ghost”
― Christie Christie, The Sadistic Narcissistic: To Love a Ghost

“I'm going to kiss you."
He was giving her one last chance to back out, to push him away. That was not going to happen.
Her mouth twisted with amusement. "Not if I kiss you first.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“I'm going to cook you a dinner, which we'll eat by candlelight. Roses, wine, witty banter, the whole first-date deal."
Everywhere he touched, her skin tingled with the promise of more. Feeling a soft breeze brush across her skin, she glanced toward the common room and flashed him a wicked smirk. "A bedroom with a door?"
"Mmmhmmm," he murmured as he tilted his head toward her, smirking. "I hadn't realized you were so high maintenance.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“Contrary to popular belief," Gretchen grumbled. "It's creepy to watch a girl while she sleeps."
Clint shrugged and smiled. "Sorry, I guess I should've just woken you up.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“I was promised dinner," she said, smirking.
Clint couldn't help but grin back at her. "It's nine in the morning."
She sauntered in and stretched out on his couch. "Then I guess you have a lot of time to prepare.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“... death does not bring the life of a man to an end; it only opens the door to a higher form of life.”
― Compton Gage

“All of her days were full of strangeness here at the end of the world, but this day was standing out as one of the stranger ones.”
― Jean Marie Bauhaus, Dominion of the Damned

“None of my training can prepare me for this, to find her lifeless, and lost to me, forever. My jaw so tight it aches, I haul the lid up and look down.

An empty pod glares back at me.

I stand and turn full circle, unseeing, as panic wrestles my mind to the ground. I don't know if she's alive, or dead, or on the brink of dying of hunger. This is worse than trying to find her pod. A thousand million times worse. She could be anywhere. She will think she's alone, she will believe I didn't come for her, or that I didn't survive all this. And it hits me, with all the force of a star collapsing into a black hole. I wasn't there.

I. Wasn't. There.

'Blue!' I bellow into the day made into night. Anguish claws at me, tears me into shreds. To be so close to where she was and to have lost her. It's unbearable. 'Blue!' I shout with all the force of my once-military voice, fuelled by fear, dread, and the ache of my love, burned to hell.

In the distance, a startled rush erupts from the marsh, what sounds like hundreds of leathery wings against the air. Then, nothing.
I look up, wracked with hopelessness.
Through the sparse tufts of the treetops, the stars continue their relentless slide across the heavens, even though it's the middle of the day. How the fuck will I ever find her in this endless, overgrown wilderness? I won't. It's impossible. She will die and this place will bury her in its vines. I know I will never find her again.

I close my eyes and in the constellation of my mind, my pole star dies.”
― E.A. Carter, I, Cassandra

“I am Pestilence, and my memory is longer than recorded history- it is even longer than man. I came before him, and, dear Sara, I will outlive his end.”
― Laura Thalassa, Pestilence

“Taking Parker’s face in his hands, Adam rubbed their noses together. “What isn’t crazy now? We don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Falling in love with you is the one amazing thing that’s come out of this mess. The one thing that makes it all worth it.”
His heart thumped. “Really.”
“Duh.”
― Keira Andrews, Kick at the Darkness

“The world doesn’t go back. Only forward.”
― Minerva Hart, The Deadlands

“Karl leaned forward, pressing a tired but tender kiss to Nessa’s trembling lips. They were chilled by the cold and damp with sweat. Far from disgust him, this evidence that she was still alive in his arms compelled him to deepen the kiss. They pulled away at the same time. Those three special words stuck in the back of his throat. Instead, it was Nessa who spoke. Her tone was filled with wonder. “I thought I lost you.”

Karl huffed a laugh. Almost of its own volition, his hand shifted from her cheek to some loose strands of hair. Carefully, delicately, he tucked them behind her ear. “Only for a minute.”

Nessa shook her head. “Longest damn minute of my life.”

Karl grinned even as he felt himself shuddering in delight.”
― Minerva Hart, The Deadlands