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

— Giana Darling

5. “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

6. “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

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

— Giana Darling

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

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. “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

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

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15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

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. “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

23. “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

24. “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

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

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26. “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

27. “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.”

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28. “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

29. “Death was nothing. Sacrifice, that was the real killer.”

— Giana Darling

30. “It was strange magic, a hug, especially a hug from that man. It settled the demons at war inside me, sung them a lullaby and put them to bed.”

— Giana Darling

31. “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

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

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33. “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

34. “Truthfully, I wanted him to push me. I wanted him to be the first person in my life to throw me into the deep end, to drag me from the light into the darkness and the shadows to show me what lurked there, to teach me how to play with the monsters instead of fear them.”

— Giana Darling

35. “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

36. “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

37. “You know, it is the contrast between two opposites that heightens them both to keener glory. You shouldn’t be afraid to be coarse, just as I shouldn’t be afraid to be gentle. Too much of one thing is boring, Elena.”

— Giana Darling

38. “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.”

— Giana Darling

39. “I was just a dark heart wrapped in a pretty pink bow. It astonished me how many people chose to focus on the beautiful ribbon instead of what it harboured inside.”

— Giana Darling

40. “Zeus Garro’s silver eyes as they stared down at me in a church parking lot filled with blood and smoke, screams and whimpers, but those eyes an oasis of calm that lulled my flagging heart into a steadier beat. “I got you, little girl,” he said in a voice as rough and deep as any monster’s, while he held me as if he were a guardian angel. “I got you.”

— Giana Darling

41. “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

42. “You think I don’t know that under all that thorny sass you got a heart as tender as a budded rose, you can think again.”

— Giana Darling

43. “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

44. “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

45. “I’m not your fuckin’ boyfriend... No, I am your man, babe.”

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46. “This is what you must understand, Elena. They are wrong. Women bear the trials of their men, the delivery of their babies, the weight of their families. Women are extraordinarily strong. So, you must trick the men into giving you power. Do not tell them you are strong, and do not fight them with words because words can be undone. Fight the injustice with action, lottatrice mia, because action can be understood in any language, by any man.”

— Giana Darling

47. “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

48. “What would you do?” I dared to ask, vivid, almost violent images of passion morphing and breaking apart in my mind like a broken kaleidoscope tinged in red.”

— Giana Darling

49. “I’ve traced the path of your personality as you’ve grown and changed, mapped the roads of your spirit and the valley of your heart so well I would know them with my eyes closed.”

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50. “I clung to him like vines, so tight I probably made it hard for him to breathe. But I didn’t care, and he didn’t complain. If I could have, I would have crawled beneath his very skin and lived there.”

— Giana Darling