Top 150 C.D. Reiss Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I want to start over. I want a clean slate. I can’t bear it. Everything that makes me happy hurts someone.”

— C.D. Reiss

52. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

53. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

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

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55. “When this ice cube melts, I’m going to make love to you so slow, everyone in this hotel is going to know my name. It won’t be play. It’s going to be dead serious.”

— C.D. Reiss

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

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57. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

58. “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?”

— C.D. Reiss

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

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60. “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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61. “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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62. “I wanted to earn his trust behind his back.”

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63. “What about your happiness?” “It doesn’t matter. Not as much as yours. It’s not life or death.” “It is, Monica. It is.”

— C.D. Reiss

64. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

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

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

— C.D. Reiss

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

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

— C.D. Reiss

70. “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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71. “The first time I saw her, I had to hold my breath. The first time she spoke, I exhaled.”

— C.D. Reiss

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

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74. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

75. “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

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

— C.D. Reiss

77. “There was the story you told to litigate a case before a judge, and a story you told to a jury. There was a story you told the client and a story for opposing counsel.”

— C.D. Reiss

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

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79. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

80. “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

81. “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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82. “You dress for the world, but under that, you dress for me. I own your softest places, and what touches them is mine.”

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83. “The rules were: only the truth, even if it hurt. We would never protect each other from each other. And no judgment.”

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84. “My name had been on those lips between laughs and tears and rage and humility. I turned my face.”

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85. “They were symptoms of another disease. I needed to become a man unburdened by love.”

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

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

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

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89. “She didn’t understand us. No one would.”

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90. “How far down the path had we come to have no obligations?”

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91. “Happiness didn’t come neatly packaged. It found you in the moments between tears and laughter, in the fights and brokenness, in the support and in the bond with someone who loved you as broken as you were and as whole as you’d become.”

— C.D. Reiss

92. “Some things are in the stars. I was meant to protect you. And you were meant to rule.”

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93. “His hands cup my jaw like a grail. He’s passionate and starving for this kiss but generous. Responsive. Lavish with his attention, as if he’s the richest man in the world and he’s spending every dime on devotion.”

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94. “I just kept telling myself I didn’t want you, but we said no lies, and I think that includes lying to myself. How about you?”

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95. “Promises were for children and people who weren’t worthy of trust.”

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

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97. “We weren’t going to last, not as a couple. Not as lovers or sinners. She loved me. I owned her.”

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

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99. “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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100. “She was easily hurt and took it on herself to right any wrong she saw. Such a small body. So much weight.”

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