Promises And Pomegranates Quotes
"There’s something magical in the act of holding another’s life in your hands. A kind of symmetry found in nature, where you’re given the opportunity to bring beasts to grisly fates or heal them instead. They’re completely at your mercy."
"Power the likes of Rafael Ricci can’t even begin to imagine."
"Hard to pursue personal interests when your livelihood depends on whether you adhere to certain duties."
"The only person I’m interested in inspiring something like jealousy within most likely won’t even show up for the ceremony."
"Jealousy isn’t a quality I typically look for in a woman, but the existence of it within the spring goddess before me is like fresh soil, ready for me to dig in and plant my roots."
"The more she tries to get away, rubbing her ass against me, the harder I get."
"Someone is always watching, figlia mia. And now, we’re all paying for your fuckup."
"If I’d known sleeping with Kal was going to result in this, in the complete stripping away of any semblance of freedom I’ve ever had, I never would’ve done it."
"When you spend your life resigned to a certain fate, making yourself comfortable with the inevitable, even an ounce of change can feel like the end of the world."
"I’m not like the boys from your little private schools. I’ll ruin you and not think twice about it."
"Well, this is an interesting turn of events."
"You know, statistically speaking, you’re far more likely to die in a fiery automobile accident than you are in a plane crash."
"I didn’t marry you so you could fuck around and get yourself killed, so when I tell you to do something, I expect you to listen. Don’t make me regret trying to protect you."
"You’re not a weapon, you’re a pawn. That ring on your finger makes you my pawn. Don’t forget that."
"Wanting my new husband shouldn’t stir such a profound disgust within my bones—under normal circumstances, it’d be expected. Warranted."
"I should’ve been more disturbed as I watched my fiancé’s life leave his body."
"Should’ve scraped and kicked my way out of it, the way Papá taught me."
"I don’t know how fake marriages work. I guess I just assumed our living arrangements would be separate."
"We’re married. Husband and wife before the good Lord himself."
"It’s the subject of my every goddamn nightmare."
"Every time I close my eyes, I see you. Spread out and bleeding beneath me, your sweet little pussy weeping, just waiting to get fucked."
"You treat all your house guests like prostitutes, or just the ones you need something from?"
"I’d probably have preferred a meal that didn’t consist of beans just once growing up over a weekend vacation in the dead of winter."
"I recognized a lot of myself in him when news broke out about his arrest."
"This isn’t the first time you’ve suggested our union is less than legitimate."
"I can’t kill him twice, Elena. Sure that’s a road you wanna go down?"
"Whoever said Kal Anderson isn’t husband material clearly never felt his hand between their thighs."
"My body isn’t betraying me at all; I just wish it were."
"You’ve never cared what people thought of me, have you?"
"The notion should give me pause, or make me recoil in horror, but it doesn’t."
"You didn’t think my work for your father was my only source of income, did you?"
"Evidence of my evil deeds tattooed permanently into my skin."
"Thanks for the heads-up that Violet called in today."
"I haven’t had one of those nightmares since I’ve been on the island. Maybe that’s because the nightmare manifested."
"I’m not a man who very often loses his cool."
"An itch flares beneath my skin, the sound echoing long after it falls silent."
"I do my best to bury the blood coating them, admiring the addition to Elena’s handiwork on Vincent."
"It’s the kind of quality you look for in an employee. A soldier."
"Took her from one cage and imprisoned her in another, possibly for naught, depending on what I find inside."
"That knowledge is a poisoned knife to my gut, hell-bent on a quick and painful demise."
"All that talk about her being of no use to me dead, and yet I went and put her right in Death’s path anyway."
"Violence vibrates off my body in waves, the urge to maim the men who did this to her overwhelming in its intensity."
"All of us had more pent-up rage than our tiny bodies could handle, a result of the life we’d been born into that had us repress everything."
"It didn’t matter, because as a Ricci, fighting is in my blood. It’s expected."
"When you grow up in the world of la famiglia, you’re taught to take the abuse. Fight back when you can, but on the whole, and especially where men are involved, you’re expected to put up with it."
"I’m not so old that I can’t recognize bodily autonomy."
"Once you’re part of the mafia, that’s it. They don’t let their people go without a fight."
"You were spring, and I the edge of a cliff, and a shining waterfall rushed over me."
"No one would use a football term to describe meddling."
"Under normal circumstances, the existence of a wedding at all would prove my loyalty."
"She’s a lost cause, drifting out to sea while everyone chooses to look on."
"You chose safety over the contract she had with those media vultures."
"It’s not quite painful—almost a nauseating wave that crashes against the shore over and over, without ever fully receding."
"It’s okay, I’ve already grown quite accustomed to my Stockholm Syndrome."
"April is the cruelest month, lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."
"Love is the greatest act of revitalization, and I happen to think poetry is the best way to relay that."
"She doesn’t know me. She doesn’t get to decide if I’m falling in love."
"In the pit of my stomach, in the fabric of my soul, I know. I’m in love with my husband."
"Maybe he’s just so used to quoting poems to me that it doesn’t taste any different falling from his lips now."
"Heart in my throat, pulsing until I can feel nothing else, I take the drink from his hand and sip."
"When we land in Boston, I’m not expecting every news camera in the city to be waiting at the airport gates."
"The way you’ve respected my marriage by spreading rumors and lying to the tabloids about its nature?"
"Dio mio, you must’ve put on ten pounds since you’ve been gone."
"Her game always was criticism first, pleasantries second, and it was always just a matter of waiting her out."
"The only one here with any sort of power, especially over you, is me. Your husband."
"Because your father wanted him away from me."
"It’s visceral, blinding pain that sparks in the wound and creeps outward, testing the waters to see how much you can take."
"Whoever said the stages of grief don’t just apply to death was onto something."
"Betrayal slithers like lava down my spine, obliterating everything in its path."
"I always wondered what would happen if I bled wide open, and he wasn’t there to blot it up with his tongue or fingers or first aid kit."
"The only way I would be tossed into your arms is if they were torn from your body and set on fire."
"Love and hate were just two sides of the same coin. The only difference was circumstance."
"What I feel for you isn’t even in the same fucking universe."
"You’re goddamn right. Only for me. Never for anyone else. I swear I’ll end any man who even breathes near you if I think I need to."
"Beggars can’t be choosers. Either you drive the conversation, or other people pick the topics. Those are the rules of society."
"What’s there to talk about? At least the world knows Kal didn’t actually kidnap me now."
"What do I do with the love in my heart if I can’t funnel it into him?"
"You don’t hurt the people you love. You don’t go out of your way to make them suffer."
"If I never go back, it’ll be too fucking soon."
"I couldn’t help noticing the lack of a certain lass."
"Maybe Papá should’ve learned not to spill all his secrets to his family members, since anyone can email the news stations these days."
"You’re crazy," he says, pulling back. "Hope you liked being my captive before, because you’re damn sure not going anywhere now."