Top 150 C.D. Reiss Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I knew this city like a lover, and she’d whisper her secrets to me.”

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102. “I didn’t know what we were saying to each other. We were just battering rams of hurt and betrayal.”

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

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104. “He only said the one word. A prayer. A supplication. A breath from his heart to mine.”

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105. “I didn’t know how to own him with the same surety. I didn’t know how to want things for us. But he was teaching me how to be his.”

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106. “What I meant was, I love your filthy mouth. And I love your mouth when it sings and jokes. I love your body, and everything it does to me. I love when you come, when you squirm under me, begging for it. I love your hands, and your eyes. I love your honor and integrity. I love your loyalty, your intelligence. I love your honesty, even when it hurts me. I’ve fallen in love with you, Monica. I didn’t think it would happen to me again, but it did. Thank you.”

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107. “He’d taken my armor, carefully unlocked it, slipped it off, and hidden it.”

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108. “Without you, this part of myself that’s open now isn’t an opportunity. It’s an open wound. Every time you shut down, it bleeds.”

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109. “My life is with him. That’s how I live it. The rest is unnecessary complication.”

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110. “Her enthusiasm infected me. She was light, life, energy. Everything. What wouldn’t I do for her, when she gave me so much? I would have married her in an instant. So I did.”

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111. “You want to say something you’re not saying,” I said. “I don’t want to be your girlfriend, so being honest isn’t going to come back and bite you on the ass.”

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112. “More than wanting you for myself, I want you to have a good life.”

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113. “What mattered was the evolution of a relationship.”

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114. “His lips were a promise, a blood bond, a kiss of greeting and goodbye, and the years in between.”

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115. “I wasn’t the demonstrative type. I didn’t say I love you all the time, and I wasn’t girlish or giggly. I hated shopping in pairs and preferred staying home with a good romance novel than a girls’ night out. But I figured sometimes you have to meet someone halfway.”

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116. “For the sake of clarity, goddess, when it comes to me, that’s not in your vocabulary. I don’t hear it.”

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117. “Was I made for Antonio by dint of my genetics? Was I an animal from birth? Had the ream me been dormant all this time?”

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118. “We were connected. All of us. By the gestures of our hands and the tones of our voices. By our intentions, our actions, our loyalties, By our willingness to sacrifice for one another, we were joined by the ropes of our love and held fast by the knots of our hearts. I was among my people, and I was worthy of them.”

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

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120. “Nothing. You need nothing. I provide you with what you need, and what I don’t provide, you don’t need. Think of it as a vacation from adulthood.”

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121. “The way everything she said made me smile had to be the Stockholm Syndrome.”

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

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123. “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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124. “I’ll understand you, kitten. You and I, we’re going to speak without speaking.”

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

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126. “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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127. “What we have isn’t something we made. It’s something that existed before we even met.”

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

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

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131. “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.”

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

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134. “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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135. “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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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “That all you got?” “’The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”

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

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

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142. “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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143. “I just wanted to watch her exist.”

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

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

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

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147. “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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148. “I worshipped her virtue while destroying it.”

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

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150. “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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