Marked by Masks and Secrets Quotes

“Just because someone is drawn to your light, doesn’t mean they’re made of light themselves. Some recognize that you hold something they will never have, and they will do anything, anything at all, to try to starve that radiance until it dies. Because they’d rather you both live in darkness than for you to be the only one to shine.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Kylo whispered, stroking my hair. “My love is not contingent upon your behavior. You don’t have to perform for my love. You don’t have to beg for it. Or even ask very politely. I love you for existing. I love you for being you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I had three seconds to understand what the fuck was happening before my witch girlfriend killed me.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“And you were stalking me,” she added with a halfhearted huff. “I prefer admiring from a distance.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“There is no end to the depths of my obsession. Every inch of your body”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“There was that word again. Reality. I’d never been a fan of the notion. Perhaps why I spent so much time escaping to other worlds between the pages of a book.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“The genuine passion ripe in her blood”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Reality is malleable. If you don’t like your current one, you can always surround yourself with those who dream of something more.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“My love is not contingent upon your behavior. You don’t have to perform for my love. You don’t have to beg for it. Or even ask very politely. I love you for existing. I love you for being you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I think I’ve always been waiting for you. My soul recognized yours the moment I saw you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Because in my arms is the safest place you will ever be.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I agree with you,” he said softly. “Reality is malleable. If you don’t like your current one, you can always surround yourself with those who dream of something more.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I don’t have words for the hold you have over me, angel,” he said softly. “There is no end to the depths of my obsession. Every inch of your body, every beat of your vulnerable heart, every shade of your multitudinous soul, and every thought in your beautiful mind—I need to see it all, to possess it all. Because you already possess me. I fear the lengths I would go, the distances I would travel, the atrocities I would commit to keep you safe. Or merely to ensure you always know just how much I adore you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Not everyone will disappoint you, Evie. If you hide from the world, the world will hide from you.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I was a fly in a carnivorous plant’s trap, content to be consumed so long as this delicious, addictive pleasure coursed through my blood.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Open.” I opened my mouth, and Kylo spit inside. He glared down at me until I swallowed. “Thank you, Kylo.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“In our kiss, I tasted it—the buzz of fate, the love written in the stars that I’d once believed could only be found between the pages of a book.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Evie did that cute thing she did when she followed me around like a baby duck.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“Then, he fucking spit.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“For my clan, I was impenetrable, violent—all sharp edges, brutality, and razored, competent logic. For her, only for her, I was anything she needed me to be.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“People are messengers, even when the lessons they teach us are brutal and unforgiving.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“The truth was often just as painful as it was useful. Liberation was only possible after total destruction of everything we once thought we knew.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I’m going to hold you, and you’re going to fall asleep.” She furrowed her brows, as if the words were spoken in a different language. “Why?” “Because in my arms is the safest place you will ever be.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“She hated how much she wanted me. She hated what I did to her mind even more than what I did to her body. Because I was challenging all of her faulty beliefs.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets

“I was unraveling. Possessed. Consumed.”
― Maggie Sunseri, Marked by Masks and Secrets