Top 150 C.D. Reiss Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “You smell like the roses. I smell like the thorns.”

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52. “My fingers memorized his face, the textures and lines, to the tempo of his rising urgency. I love you I trust you I love you I trust you. Warm pleasure spread over my body like spilled milk, until I was covered in it, toes curling, back arching, legs stiffening,. I held back a cry and came for him, only him.”

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53. “There comes a point when you win, and you can either soothe the loser into thinking there was something in it for them or kick them while they’re down to make sure they know what just happened.”

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54. “His eyes were dirty thoughts, and his lips curved into a breach of etiquette.”

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55. “I must have been shaking, because he put his arms around me so tightly it hurt. I loved the pain of his attention. It was the pain of safety, of care, of being broken just enough for release.”

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56. “Trust me when I say I’d rather break up for the right reasons than get married for the wrong ones. With him, or anyone else. I’m either first in line, or I walk.”

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57. “God, that piece of meat between his legs was a beautiful sight.”

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58. “My gorgeous man, by my side always. We were surrounded by people and not one of them could touch us.”

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59. “I can’t think in this state. IQ points are dropping off me. I can only speak in short sentences.”

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60. “My response burst out of the base of my throat without taking the usual route through my brain. “And you’re very handsome.”

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61. “Was this what it was to love someone? To have that wall of detachment crumble and be rebuilt into a bridge? I thought so. I swore it to myself because after those hours, we were so real together no one had to ask what was going on. Caden and I were an incurable condition. Dispassion had a place in our lives, but not with each other.”

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62. “You make people think of you for a living. You remind them you exist.”

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63. “There’s nothing like anger to make you feel like you’re right to do wrong.”

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64. “Amateur comes from the Latin agent amatus. To love. Never worry about love. Love delivers.”

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65. “Who made this woman? What cruel god put together the sweetest traits with this level of joyful filth? I’d never met anyone like her. I didn’t know if I’d said that to myself before, but I was sure I’d say it again. She was a complete original.”

— C.D. Reiss

66. “Antonio straightened like a shot, straddling me. He took my hands from my face and filled my vision. The eye of the storm: a place of peace and calm, and the most dangerous space to be in. The eye made you complacent and comfortable, and the next minute, while you were enjoying the cloudless sky, you’d be swept into a violent wind.”

— C.D. Reiss

67. “Love is an ever-fixed mark. Be my ever-fixed mark. Be my north star.”

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68. “I have a problem, my Contessa. It’s been eating me alive since I kissed you. I want you and I don’t know how to have you. I want you beside me. I want my world and your world to be one. To see you laugh in the morning. To see you weep my name at night. I am not ever afraid, but with you, I am. I’m afraid I won’t have you, and I’m afraid I will.”

— C.D. Reiss

69. “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.”

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70. “Hurt it. I wanted to hurt it so my anger had a place to go. If I didn’t eat her alive, I was going to digest myself in my own acid.”

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

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72. “Women love unworthy men all the time.”

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73. “You’d be a part of my life. My world. You’d get hard and cunning to survive, or you’d stay gentle and die.”

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74. “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.”

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75. “When is love? Is love when your heart swells at the sight of him? Is love when you fall asleep on his shoulder? Or when you fold him into sections so you can fit him in your odd-shaped envelope?”

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76. “You taste like heaven, and I’m going to prove it to you.”

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77. “You’re a loaded gun. Do you see that? You’re from a different world, but you smell like home to me. I haven’t been to Napoli in ten years, but whenever you’re near me, I smell olive flowers. My heart gets sick with thirst, but the water is poison.”

— C.D. Reiss

78. “I was going to break from the inside out if he didn’t bend me into nameless shapes.”

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79. “What the hell were you doing?” he growled. “If they thought I was going to kill you, they’d shoot at me, not you!”

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80. “You may not love her any more, but you respect her. Which is more than I can say for how you feel about me.”

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81. “She is foggy weather, when the air gets so close you can feel it around you like a skin. She is the crowds flowing around Trafalgar Square with their own purpose and predictability that is comforting. She is the smell of the sea air unexpectedly coming from the south, bringing the sting of salt to the city. She is an unexpected reminder of where I stand in the world.”

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82. “It’s all I want. We are bound. I can’t be unfaithful to you any more than the sky can be unfaithful to the sea.”

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83. “I want a life with you, because you accept me. All of me. I am whole with you. Only you.”

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

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85. “There was nothing more offensive than a man blessed with looks where he should have been given courtesy.”

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86. “Had I been scared that whole time? Had I held myself back from doing things because I was afraid?”

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87. “I own you. Like the sky owns the stars. You are mine.” He slipped the gold key ring on my finger.”

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88. “The thing I want most is the only thing between me and getting it. You are everything that will destroy me. I should go back to who I was. But you made me dream I could be free, when I’d forgotten I was in prison.”

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89. “There were no parallel realities. No imaginings created infinite worlds for every possible decision.”

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90. “I wanted to earn his trust behind his back.”

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91. “I watched him put his fingers to his lips and blow me a kiss before shaking his hand as if I was too hot to handle.”

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92. “I didn’t like jewelry that much anyway.”

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93. “How could I go back to earth, having kissed heaven?”

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94. “Really? Jessica came back? That’s amazing.” “Yes, but I don’t want her. I’m keeping the new one. Unexpected upside.”

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95. “I knew this city like a lover, and she’d whisper her secrets to me.”

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96. “I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears – Ah, she doth depart.”

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97. “A man puts on clothes for the place and occasion. A woman dresses to make a point.”

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98. “She could rule the world. She already ruled me.”

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99. “I didn’t know how to exist inside my own contradictions.”

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100. “I love you, Kitten,” he said. “And I’m sorry I tied you up to say this. But I need you to hear it, and I need your defenses down.”

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