“
When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Because then I wouldn’t be true to myself, little mouse. I love that I scare you. I love that you try to run from me. The push and pull. The cat and mouse game. I fucking love it. And I think a part of you does, too.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you—you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.” “Yours. Don’t get ahead of yourself. You’ll be expected to beg.” There’s no stopping the savage grin from gracing my lips. “I love to beg.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Remember this moment,” he growls deeply, withdrawing to the tip before pushing deeper inside of me. “Because the next time I fuck you, you will be deeply in love with me, Adeline. I’m your stalker and a murderer, and you will love me anyways.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Let me feel you fall in love,
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I love you, Zade. Sometimes I can’t fucking stand it,” I say, my voice raspy and uneven. “But it was the only thing that kept me alive. You saved me. Even when we were apart, you saved me. And I hope to God you never stop hunting me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Show me where you hurt so I know where to love you most.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
if I had fallen in love with a lie, I would’ve been devastated. I just wish he wasn’t such a bad guy. But then he’d be a different man—a man you might not be able to love.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you --you're everywhere I go. You're everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I've never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I’m going to make her fall in love with every single fucked up part of me. I want this girl to see me at my most depraved. I want her to experience the true darkness residing in my soul.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I don't think you know what love is," I whisper.
He grunts with amusement. "I don't think anyone does, baby. Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I love storms—I just don’t like to be in them. I’d prefer to cuddle up under the blankets with a mug of tea and a book while listening to the rain fall.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
You can’t truly love someone if you’ve never hated them. Two sides to a double-edged sword, and they both cut fucking deep.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.
”
”
H.D. Gordon
“
I do love getting on my knees for you,
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
A dark god that embodies destruction and death, yet I’ve never felt more in love.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Fuck. I’m so in love with her.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
They see me as a diamond because I have Zade’s love, but they fail to remember that’s what forged me into a stone so unbreakable.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Until we meet someday.
”
”
Hamidah Dolhadi
“
Nothing about our love is pretty. It’s full of jagged lines, chipped pieces, and sharp edges. It hurts like fucking hell, but it’s not a masterpiece if it didn’t make you bleed for it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Sometimes, I wish I’d never met you. Because now that I have, now that I’m in love with you, I’ll never be able to carve you out. You said I’d bleed out before that’d ever happen, and you were right. And I hate you for that.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
The day I handed over my love to him was the first time a God fell to his knees, bowed his head, and prayed. He prayed because I gave him the one thing he could never control, and he never wanted to lose it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
They walk together, listing and pitching, bumping off the hallway walls and each other’s hips. A drunk wife and a husband with HD. They make a fine pair. As they lurch down the hallway and finally make it to the kitchen, it occurs to Joe that this is the best anyone can hope for in life. Someone you love to stagger through the hard times with.
”
”
Lisa Genova (Inside the O'Briens)
“
Like last year I took Advance Foods class (which is like cooking for nerds) after lunch, and so I usually took a nap. Which was fine, because I'm not even thrilled about regular foods, so, you know, what do I need with like advanced digital HD wi-fi foods and whatnot? -Abby
”
”
Christopher Moore (You Suck (A Love Story, #2))
“
Do not allow yourself to be full of hate, princess. Hate is a heavy thing. It weighs us down, chaining us in a dark place. You focus on your love. If you want to be free of this heavy darkness you feel, focus on your love. Love is a chariot with a skeleton key to the chains which hate can wrap around you. To love is to be free.
”
”
H.D. Gordon (Shooting Stars (Surah Stormsong #1))
“
It has a way of making you feel small and insignificant when you're standing before a sight as beautiful as that
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I don't care if we're reincarnated or not. Here and now, this is fucking real. And in this lifetime, you are mine.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Your love. The only thing I needed from you. You are one with the power, you've just never known what the fuck to do with it
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
He made me feel so damn loved and treasured. Just like a diamond.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
For so long, I was convinced I’d have a similar demise at the hands of my own stalker. Instead, I gave in to his dark perusals, and found myself loving him instead.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
So, not only do you only fear me in the daylight, but you only love me when I’m making you come.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there's nothing you can do that will scare them away.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
There are many things you deserve, bella ladra, but the only prison you will be a captive in is one of my own making. If my love is a prison, so be it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
Does anything about the way I love you feel tragic?” I ask, brushing my lips across her jaw. “Yes,” she whimpers. “But only because one day it will end.” A growl rips from my throat, and I fist her hair, tipping her head back and forcing her to see the truth. “You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
My lip trembles, and I’m forced to suck it between my teeth to keep the sob in. Bastard of a man. Just when I think I can’t fall in love with him any more than I already have, he goes and does this shit.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I’ll never get tired of hearing you say you love me, and if you ever stop, I’ll put strings in your fucking lips and make you say it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Baby, you don't need to call the cops to get me in handcuffs. I'll let you do anything you want to me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I would rather just off myself than trick Addie into loving me as a good man, just to break both of our hearts when she realizes I’m not a good man at all.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
You decided that when I came home, I was worth loving as a broken shell of a person. I think you can learn to love me as someone who is fierce and strong, right? So now, I want you to come home, and whatever version of yourself you wake up to be, and whatever version you grow into—I’ll love you, too.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I first tasted under Apollo’s lips,
love and love sweetness,
I, Evadne;
my hair is made of crisp violets
or hyacinth which the wind combs back
across some rock shelf;
I, Evadne,
was made of the god of light.
His hair was crisp to my mouth,
as the flower of the crocus,
across my cheek,
cool as the silver-cress
on Erotos bank;
between my chin and throat,
his mouth slipped over and over.
Still between my arm and shoulder,
I feel the brush of his hair,
and my hands keep the gold they took,
as they wandered over and over,
that great arm-full of yellow flowers.
”
”
H.D. (Selected Poems of H.D.)
“
I go where I love and where I am loved,
into the snow;
I go to the things I love
with no thought of duty or pity;
I go where I belong, inexorably,
as the rain that has lain long
from “The Flowering of the Rod [2]
”
”
H.D. (Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod)
“
For centuries. Both of us wearing different faces, inhabiting different bodies. But the same souls, colliding over and over, until this planet decides to crumble and our souls have nowhere else to go.” I hum in amusement, enjoying the quickening of her breath. “Can you imagine it?” I ask softly. I pluck a nipple between my fingers, another low groan vibrating my chest. She shivers beneath my touch, her little pants desperate and breathy. “Can you imagine what it would feel like to have my love for that long?
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Love is funny that way. It persists even when you've done everything in your power to banish it. It demands its own voice and refuses to be a slave to anyone but its own desires. And despite the power of it, those selfish desires are what make love so weak.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
I don’t care how loved they were. I don’t give a shit if they had families and if they had wives and little kids at home, eagerly awaiting their arrival. Daddy’s gone, kids.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I love you. And you’ve taken everything from me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
That was what made me fall in love with you, River.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Shallow River)
“
I love how much she needs me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Shallow River)
“
People react to fear, not love. They don’t teach you that in Sunday School, but it’s true. –Richard Nixon
”
”
H.D. Gordon (Joe)
“
The wonder! The beauty! The love of it all!
Every act to save matters no matter how small.
”
”
H.D. Vesser (Sleeping BEE-auty: Bart's Big Book Of Bee (Bart The Bat 3))
“
Oh, Sibby would love this,” she mutters to herself.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Where's Molly)
“
If she wanted me to fall in love with her, she only needed to tell me. Now, she has no choice in the matter.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Where's Molly)
“
Mortis always says I have the smile of an angel. Demons love angels. They always want what they can never have. They love to taint what’s pure.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Satan's Affair)
“
Being loved by me will hurt like hell. It’s everything you deserve.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
I told you my love was going to hurt like hell. So tell me, bella ladra, does it hurt?
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
Can you imagine what it would feel like to have my love for that long?
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I know I’m bigger than most, far bigger than most. But I don’t care what anyone says, no man can deny the ultimate satisfaction when a girl fawns over it. Especially the girl you’re madly fucking in love with.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Shallow River)
“
She studies me closely, picking apart every detail that makes up my face. My hair has grown, and my beard has thickened, but I wonder if she can see someone different beyond my appearance. Can she see a man falling in love with a little thief? Can she see that I don’t want to but will submit to it anyway? Just as I’m submitting to her now.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
It’s because I love you, Adeline Reilly. And I know you love me back. When I’m inside you, you won’t be thinking of anything else but how to get me deeper. The only fear you’ll taste is from a God sending you to heaven too soon.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.
”
”
H.D. (HERmione)
“
Am I still worth loving, little mouse?
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I love you, too. Now, let's get to work chopping him up. Chili's giving me an evil eye, and Garlic and Paprika seem like they're conspiring against us as we speak.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Where's Molly)
“
Having Zade's love feels like a dream, but having his trust and confidence feels like a dream come true.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Fuck.
I'm so in love with her.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Did she cry out for God?” he pushes. “Yes,” Xavier spits, a “Good,” Zade says, a grin in his voice. “That means she was crying out for me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I feel so much power in my fingertips, I can’t imagine how much power I’d have if I loved him.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Are you proposing because you’re in love with me or because I gave you anal?
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
You can’t truly love someone if you’ve never hated them.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I don't think you know what love is," I whisper. He grunts with amusement. "I don't think anyone does, baby. Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I love you, too. Now, let's get to work chopping him up. Chili’s giving me an evil eye, and Garlic and Paprika seem like they're conspiring against us as we speak.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Where's Molly)
“
Show me where you hurt so I know where to love you most
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
I’ve only ever wanted to love you. But I think hating you tastes just as bittersweet.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
Because for some godforsaken reason, Enzo decided I was worth loving. I think he hit his head too hard when we shipwrecked and lost his mind, yet I’m too selfish to let him go.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
I love who you are now—someone full of both strength and vulnerability. Yet still, you carry fire in your heart, and that will never fucking change. They will never take that from you, Adeline.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
The previous me—who’d never fallen in love or had sex, who’d never had a proper job—had sometimes been hard to read. But everything about the new me—the one who hd Shiraha living with her—was clear, even my future.
”
”
Sayaka Murata (Convenience Store Woman)
“
What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you—you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I hate that I want you,” she whispers. I get the feeling she didn’t mean to say it out loud.
“Really? I happen to love it.” I love that I scare her. If it scares her, then it’s real. What we feel for each other is fucking real.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Shallow River)
“
What’s wrong River? Not so brave now, are you? You like to hide from your truths. You’d rather lie to us both and pretend you love that piece of shit rather than admit you want someone better. You think Ryan could take care of you the way I could, huh? You think he makes you feel like a queen when really he treats you like a fucking peasant?
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Shallow River)
“
Fifty bucks for that one."
Her nose crinkles in distaste. "That doesn't look worth more than a dollar."
"It's an antique."
"It looks better suited to host a bonfire," she retorts without hesitation.
I'm full-on smiling like a fucking fool.
"It probably is, but be careful, my employee might hear you. That's his pride and joy."
She raises a brow. "My condolences to his wounded ego."
Damn. I think I love her.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Where's Molly)
“
It was an awful word. Nothing. It made him sick at heart. He refused to believe it. Hebdemanded that there be something he could do. He demanded that his love be worth something to his child. If it wasn't, life was garbage. He hd to rulenout the idea that life was just a matter of accident, of percentages, because it was just too goddamn much to stand for. There had to be some way you could make yourself be felt.
”
”
Don Carpenter (Hard Rain Falling)
“
Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.
Greece sees, unmoved,
God’s daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses.
”
”
H.D. (Collected Poems, 1912-1944)
“
You’re right. I do love the sound of watching you for lifetimes.” I drop my voice low, as deep as I want to shove my cock inside her. “I also love the possibility that I have fallen in love with you in each life. Fucked that sweet pussy of yours and made you fall in love with me as much as I am with you. What did I tell you, little mouse? That you couldn’t escape me. If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Do you remember why you’re living?”
It takes him several moments to answer. “Even as a kid, I was angry at the world, and I was always told that I’d waste my life away if I settled into that anger. Of course, I didn’t care. And until recently, I stayed firm in that way of thinking. I didn’t care about life when I gelt so goddamn worthless to the one who was supposed to love me most. Then you came around and stole it from me. Yet somehow, it feels like you gave it back instead.”
“I don’t see how. I’m broken, and everything I touch bleeds.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
Hue-Man Nature
If anyone forgot to tell you, you're magical.
With skin that reflects, absorbs, and rejoices in the sun oh how lucky must you be to have had your spirit framed and encased in LIGHT skin. You beautiful Hue-man you...some would even say your super powers are sun-activated. Just Look at you majestically Being. You really just going to be out here living in HD huh? You are so damn dope for that! Actually, everything about you is Super...even radiant.
And just in case you were ever feeling anything less, this is your reminder that you were created to be nothing less than MAGICAL.
”
”
Kierra C.T. Banks
“
Love is funny that way. It persists even when you’ve done everything in your power to banish it. It demands its own voice and refuses to be a slave to anyone but its own desires. And despite the power of it, those selfish desires are what make love so weak. It’s accepting the apologies of a cheating lover. It’s returning to a raised hand, over and over, until that hand becomes lethal, and home is in the afterlife. It’s clinging to a mother who never wanted you and hoping she will one day show up on those church steps. It’s grabbing ahold of a hand that belongs to both a father and an abuser, wailing as they slowly slip away. It’s falling in love with a liar, a thief, and praying they never hurt you again.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
Oh, we hd danced to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. "The Power of Love."
The POWER of LO-OVE!
But Hanne, Hanne.
Feeling her so close to me. Standing nearly as close and talking. Her laughter. Her green eyes. Her small nose.
Just before we left, on the way out, she had pinned the button on me.
That was what had happened. It wasn't much, but the little there had been was fantastic.
”
”
Karl Ove Knausgård (Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1))
“
XVIII First reading H.D. A black and white photo mutely records your life's outline - but your heart is buried in mine You live in me - a dream fire that ever burns with lovely sparks & colors All from this little coal that jumped the grate and leapt in white hot at my eye
”
”
Michael Bee (Leaves on the Wind (Poetry By Michael T. Bee Book 1))
“
if he cares,
he will flay;
if he loves,
he will slay you
”
”
H.D. (Delphi)
“
I was so desperate for love and human connection that I fell for all his bullshit. Even when there were people literally shoving the facts down my throat. And all I did was spit them back in their face.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Shallow River)
“
Small price to pay when they give us something so priceless every day. And if you ask me, I’d tell you I’m not worthy of it, but I’m a selfish bastard and will accept it anyways,” he answers cryptically. I don’t know how I know, but I know exactly what he’s speaking of. Love.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
Sometimes, it feels like you’re on an entirely different planet, ostracized from civilization. The whole area has a menacing, sorrowful aura. And I fucking love it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I’ve never wanted someone to love me, but I do now. God, do I want him to love me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Does It Hurt?)
“
She stares at me for a beat, and then her face cracks, and a full-blown grin stretches her lips. Fuck. I’m so in love with her.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
I’m balancing on the edge of life and death, and the thrill it gives me is undeniable. My heart is in my stomach, and even though it’d take putting my head between my legs for me to fall over the ledge, it feels like one inch forward, and my life is done for. I love it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
“
baby. Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
I snatch it up. I fucking love gouda cheese, goddammit. UNKNOWN: I’ll be seeing you tonight, little mouse. I snarl. ME: From outside my house, and preferably in a cop’s handcuffs. UNKNOWN: You don’t need a cop to get me in handcuffs, baby. I’ll let you do anything you want to me.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
“
When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away.
”
”
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))