Top 150 C.D. Reiss Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’ll understand you, kitten. You and I, we’re going to speak without speaking.”

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102. “You smell like the roses. I smell like the thorns.”

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103. “Spread me like a sheet of paper. Write your life on mine. Fold past and present together like a letter. I am yours.”

— C.D. Reiss

104. “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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105. “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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106. “What we have isn’t something we made. It’s something that existed before we even met.”

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

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

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110. “Where I would go? Who would love me the way I needed to be loved? Would I spend the rest of my life in a state of free fall, doing everything I could to find out where the bottom was?”

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

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

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

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114. “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

115. “Let’s face it. You don’t even understand you. The difference between us is that I happen to love you.”

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116. “But I was going to wait because I had the feeling he’d be worth it.”

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117. “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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118. “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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119. “Why did you become a psychiatrist?” I asked. “Because it’s easy to fix the body. The mind though? Once that’s broken, it’s hard to set right again, but if you do help someone set it back, they can overcome anything.”

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

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121. “His self-awareness is frightening and exhilarating. His voice has a British lilt that’s masculine, confident, educated without being snotty.”

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122. “I got into my shoes with anticipation and laced them up with hope.”

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123. “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.”

— C.D. Reiss

124. “That all you got?” “’The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”

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125. “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

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

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127. “He understood me and he still wanted me, not in spite of my failings, but because of them.”

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128. “Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket.”

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129. “You are my life. It doesn’t matter what I am, or what I’ve done, as long as you’re mine.”

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130. “We are a sad couple in a sad world. Sad and doomed.”

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131. “I just wanted to watch her exist.”

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132. “Bedroom games. That’s all it is. But they’re serious, and when played right, everyone wins.” He.”

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133. “His parents had skimmed from the very top of the gene pool to make that mouth.”

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

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135. “I was glad he was there because I could barely walk, but he was the reason I felt as though the earth was dissolving under my feet.”

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136. “I worshipped her virtue while destroying it.”

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137. “I didn’t believe she had as much control as she asserted. “You drive.”

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138. “I loved her. Wanted to love her. Needed to love her, and the second she kneeled, she’d be nothing to me.”

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139. “She didn’t take a dime. She took everything that mattered.”

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140. “You’ve stuffed your needs into a bag and thrown them into the river because they scare you. But I see them, because I am the river.”

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141. “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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142. “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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143. “My name had been on those lips between laughs and tears and rage and humility. I turned my face.”

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

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146. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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