After the Fall Quotes

“I’d found what I loved, and I was only too willin’ to let it kill me.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Love sayin’ it. Love that you came over to the dark side for me. Says a lot ’bout my powers of corruption.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Heavy is the fuckin’ head that wears the crown, even if it’s made of grease, leather, and iron.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Being pure is so overrated.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“She was a queen

Raised to sit on a golden throne

In a kingdom of crystal and ice

All I had to offer was my sword of smoke and world of gasoline

With soldiers shielded by leather and coated in tatts

My currency was love and loyalty

In a market that traded in diamonds and class

I would do anything to convince her

That she might have been raised to sit on a golden throne

But she belonged on the seat of iron with a crown of steel

At my side.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Sometimes, I feel like a fanatic. When I get my hands on you, your taste in my mouth, my name on your lips, I could overdose on devout ecstasy.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Fuckin’ finally, I was truly Fallen.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Why would you ever forgo pleasure like that?”

“Beats me, but I didn’t grow up the way you did with God watchin’ your every step.”

She pursed her lips. “This is true. I guess, now, I just don’t care if God is watching. If I were him, I’d have ripped open the sky to get a peek at what goes on between us in bed.”

“Corrupted through and through. From pious good girl to thinkin’ God’s a big ole perv.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Was evil, like Shakespeare hypothesized about greatness, born, breed, or earned?”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Family were the ones who made your life worth livin’, yet the only people you would gladly die for.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I was born to the demons that hounded me.

They wanted my submission to their corruption like blood ink on paper signed with my name.

I could have run,

But where is the power in that?

Instead, I became a demon myself in order to master them all.

Own your demons.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“In whatever planes of existence there are

On any star or parallel planet

You and I are together

Infinitely

Inevitably

Because nothing makes sense

In any language or any place

Without our love to decode life’s purpose”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“You look fuckin’ dapper, King.”

“If I look dapper, then you look like a princess,” I countered with a raised brow.

She pursed her lips. “MC princess then.”

“Dapper rebel then,” I retorted.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Knew the moment I saw you across Mac’s Grocer parking lot you were the one for me,” I whispered just for her. “Knew it like you were made from me, for me, and you were just slottin’ back into place inside me. Adam’s rib returned to him.”

Those huge whiskey eyes warmed and went wet as she stared up at me with that expression I lived for, that one that said I was her hero and her fuckin’ haven, her bad boy with a good heart that beat just for her.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I was a poet not because I wanted to be, but because it possessed me, compelled me, as if the words were magic, and I the wand that harboured them.

In the chaos of my over full, rioting heart, it was no wonder that poetry was the only way I could hope to express myself.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I never knew how much was enough to ask for in my life until I met you, and since then? I’ve never thought to ask for anything else.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Could drown in you if I’m not careful.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I’m a grown man now, and I’m still fuckin’ starvin’.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Goodness is in action, not position.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I have Garro blood and, yeah, a little chaos in my heart, but I’m a rebel with a cause.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“I’d rather die on my feet fighting you than live on my knees in fear of you.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“My nose itched with the burn of tears as I looked at her, alone and proud, gorgeous in a way that literally shook me, my hands tremblin’.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Maybe it was ’cause I knew, if I died, that I’d do it with our love like celestial dust in my veins so even when my body went, our story would be immortalized in the stars.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Wanna get married at our house, babe. In the clearin’ through the trees so when you come to me in your weddin’ dress it’ll look like just as much of a dream as it’ll feel to me gettin’ to marry a woman like you.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Lookin’ at Cressida Irons, the woman that would become my woman despite all’a the obstacles, I knew she would always be fuckin’ mine. And me, irrevocably, fuckin’ ecstatically, hers.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Our relationship felt as elemental to me as Adam and Eve’s, as if we were born of each other and meant for each other. As if there was no other choice in the world as inevitable as our decision to be together.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“As if sensing my thoughts, King used his nose to push my hair away from my neck and kissed my pulse point. “You know, sometimes, even when I hold you like this, bein’ with you feels like a dream I’ve got no business dreamin’.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“But not King. He took pleasure in my body the way a painter does his art, every curve and dip of my surface a delight to revel in, every movement of my form a different temptation to chase after.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“He folded my legs farther back, pressing me open like a book for him to read, to study and dedicate to memory so that he could recite the taste of me, the smell of me, anytime he wanted.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall

“Bookstores were a home for my troubled mind in a time when I had no safe harbour to develop who I truly wished myself to be.”
― Giana Darling, After the Fall