Tender Love Quotes

“That’s how life goes sometimes. When you set off into the world, you’re too busy fighting demons—inside and out—too busy building something of your own. And you forget who stayed behind.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“When a woman wants to leave, you take it like a man—and you let her go.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“So he researched love.
Turned out it was no different than religion.
Everyone had their own definition. Their own rituals.
People tortured each other and called it love.
Abused each other, still called it love.
Lied, cheated, betrayed—all under the same word.
Some stayed married for 60 years: love.
Some divorced and still raised their kids together: love.
Some never met again but carried the ghost of a person forever: love.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Apparently, even in death, that was a problem.
People fight so much over religion.
Isn’t it supposed to be between you and your God?”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Religion is for the paperwork. Faith is for us.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“The part that scared her wasn’t dying—
it was watching her children grieve,
and being unable to do anything about it.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Death is better than suffering.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Did you ever do that experiment in school? A leaf in water. One drop of purple dye?”
That’s how you spread inside me. You went everywhere. Became impossible to take you out.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Because how a woman loves—why she loves—can’t be found in books. It’s as abstract as the cosmos.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Like I left a piece of myself in that little room of yours. Did you ever find it?”

“I did,” he said gently. “But it wasn’t in my room. Found it lodged in the left chamber of my heart.”
He exhaled—slow, steady.
“Went to see a cardiologist about it once,” he murmured. “He ran all kinds of scans and said, ‘It’s lodged pretty deep in there. If we try to take it out, there’s a good chance you’ll bleed out before we can stitch you back up. So, it’s either we kill you trying… or you live with it for the rest of your life.
I’m still living with it. My heart’s grown arteries and capillaries around it. It’s part of me now.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Something in her leaned closer—without moving at all.
The warmth of his mouth didn’t just stir her skin;
it seeped into her bones like a whispered promise.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“I’d rather do the wrong thing with the right person—than the right thing with the wrong one.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“You’re on a dopamine high.
You’ve just come home after ages.
It’s the holidays.
You’ve run into someone from your old life.
Sparks have flown.
It’s like we’re in a bloody Christmas rom-com right now. If Hallmark finds out, they’ll turn us into a movie.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“It’s just walls made of bricks, Elize. I’ll build new ones.
My home will be wherever you are.
So pick a place.
Give me a name.
And I’ll build us a home there.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Oh, it matters. It matters a lot. Because there’s a good chance I’d have gone my whole life not knowing there was a home out there waiting for me.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Your standards aren’t the law, ma’am—with all due respect.
Your daughter doesn’t have to become you to be extraordinary.
She can choose differently.
Live differently.
And still be a miracle.
You just need to stop looking down at her from where you stand—
and look up from where I live.
Then maybe you’ll see what I see.
A goddess—with a heart.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“She hadn’t been there all those years.
Didn’t know who had held him.
Didn’t know how he had learned to let himself be held.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“It didn’t rise like a love song.
It rose like a memory that refused to die.
No longer a whisper—
but a vow.
Declared into the vastness of the universe.
Each note struck like a heartbeat—
sure, steady, full of fire.
As though it had learned loss, and joy, and longing—
and returned bearing all of it,
just to lay it at her feet.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“She looked like… No. There wasn’t a soul on Earth to compare her to.
Just... danger.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“He loved her because of her heart—that wide, soft, terrifying heart.
The one she carried so openly, so foolishly brave, like it wasn’t breakable at all.
She knew it would get hurt.
But carried it anyway.
But a heart like that never comes cheap.
And the currency was grief.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Souls, oh, poor souls—
always pressed against the limits of flesh and bones.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“And you look like someone who just stepped out of a half-dream. Too breathtaking to be from this world. Yet too real to be just a fragment of my imagination.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Death didn’t always knock—sometimes it just walked in, like an old friend visiting again.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Her tears were still standing there—quiet sentinels at the edge of her eyes, as though they loved her too much to leave without permission.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“You did this with love once. Hid it because you thought I wouldn’t want it. You’re doing the same with grief now.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“We’ve grieved the dead. It’s only fair we celebrate the ones who remain.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Because Mother Nature doesn’t discriminate like our invented gods. She loves us all the same. And kills us all the same.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“She had to be there.
Somewhere.
In a room.
At a window.
Breathing the same night air.
Looking at the same moon.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“Oh, you’re always there. You’re my seventh sense.”
― Narik N.Q., Ink On My Skin!

“She imagined brushing the curl from his forehead, and shook her head at herself, amused at how easily her thoughts drifted toward him these days.”
― Emily Miller, The Weight Of Ash And Gold