Hurt Comfort Quotes

“He touched me. He… he whispered things in my ear, things I never would’ve expected to affect me the way they did. I feel like I lose control when I’m near him. I’m like a leaf fluttering in the wind—when he zigs, I zag. He talks and I jump. He walks and I turn into a blithering idiot. I admit it, I’m clumsy, but when I find myself near him…” He didn’t have the courage to finish the sentence. With a sudden lump in his throat, he added: “I don’t want to hope, and I certainly don’t want to delude myself. Damn it, the thought of deluding myself terrifies me!”
“I think I know what your problem is.”
“And what would that be?”
He sat up, offering a sly smile. “You’re hopelessly in love with him.”
― Valentina C. Brin, Rise of a Nobleman

“He felt strong arms reach around him, and gentle hands stroking his back and petting his hair. He knew nothing else, except the vague, soothing rocking motion, the raw pain screaming in his head, until, at last, there was nothing but emptiness inside, the arms and hands and the rocking, and a voice whispering just, “Shh.”
― Leona Windwalker

“Have you noticed how the boy looks at you?” Russell asked.
Charles chortled. “For the love of God, how should he look at me?”
“I’m serious. I’ve been noticing it for a while now. Don’t tell me you haven’t noticed.”
Silence.
Dorian held his breath, ears divided between the sounds in the undergrowth and the words that would follow.
“What are you talking about?” Charles’s voice sounded lower and more sullen than before, as if the marquess were struggling to contain some type of uneasiness.
Russell’s reply was bone-chilling: “He looks at you the way a woman would.”
― Valentina C. Brin, Rise of a Nobleman

“He watched him turn, his throat racked by forces pulling him in different directions. Part of him wanted to grab him by the neck, force him to his knees, and caress the skin off him while covering his face with frenzied kisses. But, God, part of him wanted to bite him. To fill his lips with the boy’s moans and tears before extracting more from him, until the boy was so disgusted that he’d never want to touch Charles again.
Because that was what terrified Charles more than anything else: Dorian’s touch. And what his hands might uncover deep in his soul.”
― Valentina C. Brin, Rise of a Nobleman

“The outside of you had peeled away, and I could see your insides as clear as my own hand in my lap, aching to reach for you.”
― Julio-Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels

“I’ll teach you not to look at me like that,” Charles snarled through his hair before pushing it off his face. “Do you think I didn’t notice? The way you look at me when you think I’m not watching?”
Oh, God!
He had to get out of there. Slip out of his grip as soon as possible, before he lost control of his body. He was already feeling it in his groin—the fire Rochester had lit was already making his balls throb.
His reply was desperate, a whisper, a tiny, brazen lie: “You’re mistaken.”
“Oh, that’s how it is, then? You have the nerve to tell me it’s not true?” The next moment he felt something firm pressing against his buttocks. Something hot and shameless. Charles’s rock-hard erection.
Dorian’s lips parted in a surprised moan. The air escaped his lungs and treacherous arousal rose all the way to his throat, breaking his voice and his willpower.
“No…” I don’t know. “I didn’t mean to. I wasn’t spying on you on purpose.”
“But you did. You always do.”
― Valentina C. Brin, Rise of a Nobleman

“He would punish him for his impertinence. He would cane him right away, the second they left the room, then spend the rest of the day rubbing his raw wounds to remind him of the gravity of his offenses. But come nighttime, he would hug him tight to his chest to make Dorian understand that he would never, ever let him go as long as he had the strength to draw breath.”
― Valentina C. Brin, Rise of a Nobleman

“You’re a river, Bones,” he said, squeezing my hands hard to get my attention. “You don’t break, you bend. If someone tries to control you, you find a new way around. People might think you’re just water, might think they have you contained, but you’re strong enough to cut a path through mountain rock and wild enough to wash everythin’ away when you rage.”
― K.L. Speer

“I swear, I could wipe out every man in Vladivostok if it would make her speak. If it would make her pour out her fears so I could protect her from them. Let me see every wound, so I can dress them. Let me meet her demons, so I can kill every last one of them.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“I used to think, if my car hadn’t crashed that night, I would’ve never met her. But in the deepest part of me, I know, I would’ve found her. On some other rainy night, some noisy evening, some peaceful morning.
I was born to find her. She is the most meaningful and true answer to my existence.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“Mark nodded. “And you should take Hugo. Get some sea air in his lungs. Get shat on by some seagulls.”

“Bloody seagulls.”

“Sandy beaches, open spaces. Who needs shit like that?”

“Nobody,” I agreed. “Fucking nobody.”
― Sophia Soames, Skin and Bones

“I’m not a man anyone should feel safe with.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“There could be no possibility of Damir without his Hope.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“This isn't goodbye forever. This is goodbye for now. A clean break for now. I can't do any in between. I don't except you to wait for me. Okay?"
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― Elsie Silver, A False Start

“I am dying!" he cried. "Kiss me, my love. Kiss me, and mayhap your love will keep me tethered to this mortal coil.”
― Jade Lee, 50 Ways to Ruin a Rake

“Roxie swallowed hard and headed to the kitchen, feeling the weight of that woman’s presence like a vulture tearing at the scraps that remained.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Dominick hummed. Alfie’d had a lifetime to learn how to interpret all his little sounds. This one clearly meant, “I’m very cross with you for almost dying, but also very worried, so I’ll let you have your way, just this once.”
He’d heard that noise a lot.”
― Samantha SoRelle, His Lordship's Blood

“...what I did was even worse. I made you depend on me and then I let you down. You’re the most important thing in my life, and I made you feel expendable. I’m never going to forgive myself for that, and I don’t expect you too, either. Being here these past few months has taught me how easy it is to tear something down with a single mistake, and how difficult it is to build it back.”
― L.C. Davis, His Reclassified Omega

“Some tiny part of you is still with me, Arcady. It cannot be dampened, not through time, or distance, or even worlds.
Even the tiniest spark can be nursed back into a flame.
I make my promise, here and now, on this last sheaf of paper: I will find my way back to you, my one human, and I will do whatever it takes for you to forgive me.
Our story is not finished yet.”
― L. R. Lam

“The sound of untainted sorrow can shatter the stone no storm could shift.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“Were you whipped?”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“She’s like Maksim, I remind myself. I remember very clearly how, for so many nights, I heard him crying in his room from Ruslan’s, and how I wanted to kill every last person responsible for his pain. But they were already dead.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“I don’t remember a single person in my life whom I haven’t hurt.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“I watch her without blinking. God knows when I’ll see her smile again. I wish every day, every hour. But life has taught me one thing, there’s no guarantee that your wishes will come true. Mine, for the record, never do.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“His touch feels like the warm sunlight on the coldest winter day, the cool moonlight on the hottest summer night. It wipes away the fear and leaves behind a lulling calm.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“Rosa snaps, “Damir, don’t touch her without her permission.”
Fuck the rules. I’ll follow the protocols tomorrow. Right now, I can’t watch pain and fear claw at her eyes, it tears my heart”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“She has to be fine. Because I won’t survive seeing that fear in her eyes again. Whether it’s because of her condition like Maksim’s or something else, I just want to see her in peace.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“Bring her back, Ruslan. Take whatever you want. Take my life… Take everything I have… Just bring her back.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“No one can take me away from my songbird’s memories.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil

“Either it’s nothing or unrelenting torment. There’s no middle ground anymore.”
― Noyar Cecil, Devotion of a Devil