Top 200 Giana Darling Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A nice girl doesn’t get turned on by a spanking,” he scolded, his fingers dipping into the pool of desire beneath my burning bottom. He dragged one knuckle down over my clit and I jerked in my bonds at the roar of pleasure it released. With one hand still on my center, he spanked me again, pushing.”

— Giana Darling

2. “I don’t know what love means to you, but to me, it means loving someone no matter what baggage they come with for as long as they’ll let you love them and as hard as you possibly can. The only risk I fear is one where I lose you.”

— Giana Darling

3. “My therapist told me there was a name for what I had, that furious drive for perfection that had marked my entire life. Kodawari, the Japanese word for the relentless pursuit of perfection. I didn’t so much want to be perfect––which I was aware enough to know was an impossibility––as I wanted to seem perfect.”

— Giana Darling

4. “If I’d learned anything the past few years, it was that broken wasn’t bad. It was a step along the road to healing and growth, a pause in the inevitable evolution of ourselves over the course of our lives.”

— Giana Darling

5. “She made a man who’d felt like a monster his entire life, feel like a fuckin’ angel.”

— Giana Darling

6. “Be careful,” he whispered. “Sometimes, the truth hurts more than the lies.”

— Giana Darling

7. “There were graveyards in those eyes, haunted eyes that few people could hold for long in any kind of stare. I found them lovely, melancholy and peaceful as walking through a cemetery at dawn when the sky is giving birth to day in direct contrast to the eternal dead.”

— Giana Darling

8. “Paradise Lost quotes, “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.”

— Giana Darling

9. “Flowers don’t thank the sun for shining on them or the rain for its wet. Whatever happened to you because of knowing me was always in you to give. I think you just needed a little love to realize how magnificent you are.”

— Giana Darling

10. “Light and shadow played over his face like dueling lovers, making him breathtakingly, almost impossibly beautiful, like an apparition or a god dropped from heaven just to seduce me.”

— Giana Darling

11. “I wanted to lay her out and play her body like an instrument just to see what chords would make her sing, how many ways I could make music with her form.”

— Giana Darling

12. “Let them underestimate me, I’d be only too happy to prove them wrong with a pretty smile and my deadly blade.”

— Giana Darling

13. “The man who had taught me how to love and life again. The man who had brought me back to myself. I loved him before I even knew how to identify the feeling and maybe that was why it happened, because it was done before I could think to stop it.”

— Giana Darling

14. “I used to think we were such a close family. It took me a long time to realize that we are a collection of strangers pretending to be family. We’ll never know each other well enough to love each other properly if we keep secrets the way we have.”

— Giana Darling

15. “Let you be my wild rose, bristling with thorns and red as blood, but also the soft flower, delicate under my touch and easily plucked between my fingers.”

— Giana Darling

16. “It is a privilege, Elena, to know you intimately. To know what makes you hurt and what makes you blush. To know what your demons are so I can slay them for you when you don’t have the strength or watch you overcome your own nightmares because I love to watch my fighter conquer everything in her path. It is an honor to know you and I won’t ever take that for granted.”

— Giana Darling

17. “There’s no God but this devil in your bed.”

— Giana Darling

18. “There is no way to say goodbye to the ones you love, but as I think on it, I believe that is for a reason. We never truly say goodbye to the people we love because we live on in each other’s hearts and minds long after one of us might be gone.”

— Giana Darling

19. “He was this contradiction only my heart could decipher. A lovely monster. A beautiful nightmare.”

— Giana Darling

20. “It wasn’t a threat. A threat implied probability, a chance either way. No, my words were a promise.”

— Giana Darling

21. “Happiness is streaking bare-assed naked down the wet sand into the waves, it’s drinkin’ too much and laughin’ too loud with your friends, it’s lovin’ so hard you want to devour the flesh, soul and mind of another person. None of that is fuckin’ pure and all of it is fuckin’ sublime.”

— Giana Darling

22. “I will keep you safe,” I said in a voice that sounded strangely like a vow. An oath when the last promise I’d ever made was to make promises no more. “Everyone who knows me fears me, and those that don’t yet, will learn to.”

— Giana Darling

23. “I was just a dark heart wrapped in a pretty pink bow.”

— Giana Darling

24. “You’re more than my family, you’re more than my best friend. You’re the choice I want to make every single day, to live to the fullest and love the hardest.”

— Giana Darling

25. “You’re mine in life; you’re mine in death. We’re never gonna be fuckin’ parted, mo cuishle. I’ll haunt you, I’ll haunt you, I’ll haunt you.”

— Giana Darling

26. “Then I saw you in the parking lot and I fell in love with you in a way that I’ve never fallen in love with anyone before. You changed my life, catastrophically and fundamentally, like a warm water hurricane, and you didn’t even have to open your mouth to say anything except to laugh.”

— Giana Darling

27. “We never truly say goodbye to the people we love because we live on in each other’s hearts and minds long after one of us might be gone.”

— Giana Darling

28. “Being pure is so overrated.”

— Giana Darling

29. “A man without respect for the law is not a man without respect for anything. All that intensity, that devotion, is channeled toward other things, mostly their people; the brotherhood, family, their women. You can’t experience anything like it until you’ve had it.”

— Giana Darling

30. “There was cracking in my ribs, a yawning open of bones, and then with a brutal thud that robbed me of breath, I felt her there, my girl, my heart, slotted into my chest. I was destroyed by her love, the dead man murdered by sweet hands.”

— Giana Darling

31. “King had arrived in my life like an angel fallen from heaven and ascended from hell, like my own real-life Satan who whispered rebellion in my ear so winningly I had no choice but to answer his call.”

— Giana Darling

32. “I loved how he played with me, as if I was an object that existed only for his pleasure. It should have felt wrong, maybe even degrading, but it didn’t because Danner was playing me the way he played his guitar, masterfully, removed only because he needed to focus to strum every string just right.”

— Giana Darling

33. “The first seventeen years of my life, I fasted. I kept my body clean and my spirit pure. Now, I wanted to feast like a glutton, spread lust on my breakfast toast, shoot violence and sip greed. And I want you to teach me, sinner man, because you’re the only man for the job.”

— Giana Darling

34. “She looked like some dark nymph, some creature of the night come out from under the bed to play.”

— Giana Darling

35. “Dante’s love had razed me to the very ground of my soul, demolishing all my preconceived notions of right and wrong, even of my own identity and desires. I was going to step off this plane a new woman and for the first time in my life, I was excited by my lack of foresight and structure.”

— Giana Darling

36. “Heavy is the fuckin’ head that wears the crown, even if it’s made of grease, leather, and iron.”

— Giana Darling

37. “What I said was that a man in love has one weakness, his woman. It’s his Achilles’ heel. But that same love makes the rest of him impenetrable, strong as a god.”

— Giana Darling

38. “I want to feast like a glutton, spread lust on my breakfast toast, shoot violence and sip greed. And I want you to teach me, sinner man, because you’re the only man for the job,” I told him.”

— Giana Darling

39. “Some things were written in code, hardwired in the body. The movement of breath through the lungs, the beat of the heart in the chest. The feel of Nova in my blood was just as intrinsic. I would no sooner be rid of him, even if I could, than I would cut off my own arm.”

— Giana Darling

40. “He planted flowers all over my body, inside the cage of my ribs, in the fertile soil of my heart, yet he never noticed how they bloomed just for him.”

— Giana Darling

41. “The sincerity of children is a good reminder to adults to be more honest.”

— Giana Darling

42. “It’s hard for me to express exactly how I feel about you, Li, ’cause I’ve never felt this way about anyone or anythin’ before. It’s like askin’ a blind man to describe the colour blue.”

— Giana Darling

43. “There is no space for judgment where there is love, Phillipa.”

— Giana Darling

44. “Shut up, lock the door and come here. Detention is in session.”

— Giana Darling

45. “The endless constellations of cinnamon freckles scattered on every inch of available pale skin, and the shade of green in his eyes I sometimes fancied was emerald and other times darker, textured like wet moss.”

— Giana Darling

46. “I’ll ruin you,” I promised baldly, excitement in my balls, in my chest, a percussion beat like ceremonial drums. “So ruin me,” she agreed. “Pull my hair, bite my neck, leave me bruised and ruined by your love until every inch of my body is singing of you.”

— Giana Darling

47. “Was never gonna let you go, Cress babe. Knew it that day in the parking lot just like you did. There was never a moment after that day that I doubted it.” “Despite everything, because of everything, I love you,” I whispered as my hands shot out over the table to clutch his.”

— Giana Darling

48. “Just as it’s in the nature of a broken man to race toward her light. You ask me, there’s a special kinda yin and yang in that. Two hearts find’a love like that it’s fuckin’ bindin’.”

— Giana Darling

49. “God, but I both loved and hated that I couldn’t hold my own against Danner. That my body and soul could outvote my mind and give in to the tears, because a huge part of me knew that there was no hiding from Danner. Not when he held my thorny heart in his hands. Not when he’d had it inked onto his chest.”

— Giana Darling

50. “Loving you isn’t a worse fate than death. The idea of not loving you? That’s what makes me feel like I’m dying.”

— Giana Darling