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Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3) QUOTES

Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3) QUOTES

1 " What did I ever do to deserve you?” I asked. “You let me love you.” “Is that all?” “Yes. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

2 " I know you find me repulsive.” “I don’t.” “You do. You’ve never understood me.” “That’s not the same as finding you repulsive, "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

3 " Let’s face it. You don’t even understand you. The difference between us is that I happen to love you. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

4 " She didn’t understand us. No one would. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

5 " I wasn’t entitled to pray for God to do his job, because it wasn’t his job to make things easy for me. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

6 " We break down and rebuild ourselves every seven to ten years. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

7 " He understood me and he still wanted me, not in spite of my failings, but because of them. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

8 " Had I been scared that whole time? Had I held myself back from doing things because I was afraid? "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

9 " I told you right there. I’ll destroy you. Men like you… you’re nice. I’d eat you up and spit you out. I’d fuck you and leave you and—look, this isn’t my ego talking. Nice guys don’t last in my world. Nice guys with boundaries and common sense? I’m not paying for your therapy bills. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

10 " She was worth running for. Worth every loss in my life. Worth stepping outside the law. Worth living, dying, and everything in between. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

11 " It is. It’s all over. The system is fucked. You can’t win by doing things the right way in this world. No. There is no right and wrong. There’s only what you get away with and what you don’t. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

12 " I want to start over. I want a clean slate. I can’t bear it. Everything that makes me happy hurts someone. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

13 " What you feel pity about, my childhood, is what protects me. You were given nothing. You were free from want. From even the slightest anxiety. Now you have nothing to protect you. Every slap feels like a bullet wound. You tolerate more pain in your life right now than I do. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

14 " But I was going to wait because I had the feeling he’d be worth it. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

15 " He was a Dominant, a Master, and he knew his words had power. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

16 " We were connected. All of us. By the gestures of our hands and the tones of our voices. By our intentions, our actions, our loyalties, By our willingness to sacrifice for one another, we were joined by the ropes of our love and held fast by the knots of our hearts. I was among my people, and I was worthy of them. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

17 " Where I would go? Who would love me the way I needed to be loved? Would I spend the rest of my life in a state of free fall, doing everything I could to find out where the bottom was? "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

18 " I was in a now that was so short, I stopped wanting anything but to live. To get across, to get away. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

19 " I want to be normal.” “Jesus Christ. You might as well want to be taller. Normal wasn’t the hand you were dealt. You and I, we’re not normal. That’s not a choice we have. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)

20 " Promises were for children and people who weren’t worthy of trust. "

― C.D. Reiss , Forbidden (Forbidden, #1-3)