Top 200 Giana Darling Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “I am beginning to understand that I am addicted to the way I feel about myself when I’m with you. Like I’m the hero and not the villain.”

— Giana Darling

52. “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

53. “Crying is the bodies way of expressing emotion that’s too big for words. It doesn’t make you weak, Lena, and I’m happy to hear you’re just feeling again.”

— Giana Darling

54. “You could tell me every dark thing you’ve ever done, every terrible thought you’ve ever had, and I’d still love you. The bad we’ve done doesn’t make us inherently bad people, Nova. It makes us human. It’s the good we’ve done that matters. And you? Everything good in my life was planted there by you. How could I not love you for that?”

— Giana Darling

55. “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

56. “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

57. “Every thought I got in my head finds its way back to you, like the ocean always rollin’ back into the shore.”

— Giana Darling

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “And I got you. You’re mine, little Queen. And I’m going to take everything from you.”

— Giana Darling

64. “Safe,” I whispered to myself to soothe the wild terror still gnawing at the back of my mind. “Safe,” he echoed, his strong arms finally going around me in a tight cinch.”

— Giana Darling

65. “What happened to my girl?” he asked again, his thumb trailing whisper soft over the cuts then pressing over my thudding pulse point as if to reassure himself I was alive and safe. “Tell me so I can kill them.”

— Giana Darling

66. “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

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

— Giana Darling

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

— Giana Darling

69. “Sometimes you’re so sweet, I forget you’re a monster.”

— Giana Darling

70. “King was gone, gone to prison, gone away before I could tell him I was stupid but also in love, so goddamn in love with him that I would die an excruciating death every day for the rest of my life if it meant I could be with him.”

— Giana Darling

71. “And I’m not asking you to do that because you’re a fuckin’ hot lay. I’m asking you to risk everything to be my partner, to stand by my side and rule The Fallen men of Entrance, to lie, cheat and steal, to breathe my fuckin’ breath, take my kisses and my cock and reign with me. Be the Iron Queen to my Fallen King.”

— Giana Darling

72. “Knowing my thoughts is a privilege I don’t share with strangers.”

— Giana Darling

73. “Memories masquerading as nightmares.”

— Giana Darling

74. “Men forget to treat women with tender affection and platonic encouragement. Lust was no worthy substitute for pure care.”

— Giana Darling

75. “Monsters aren’t so monstrous when you understand where they came from.”

— Giana Darling

76. “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

77. “It was only Harleigh Rose I wanted with every multifaceted part of me. As a man elementally, powerfully could want a woman, to cherish her, guard her and plant his babies in her.”

— Giana Darling

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

— Giana Darling

79. “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

80. “But I cried then, and I discovered just how many types of tears there were. Angry tears, so salty they burned my hot cheeks. Wallowing tears, the kind that seeped into my mouth and made me nauseous as if I’d swallowed too much sea water. Lonely tears as I realized how few people I had in my corner, how few loved ones I could call my own. As I realized much of that solitariness was my fault because I’d pushed so many people away out of fear of being hurt.”

— Giana Darling

81. “Yes, I was a good girl, a churchgoing, straight A-receiving, animal-loving blond with a serious penchant for all things pink and girly. But I was drawn to the dark like a planet pulled irrevocably toward a black hole. I wanted more than sunshine and flowers.”

— Giana Darling

82. “Loved her enough to kill and die for her ’cause only the finality of death could match the finality of my kinda love for that girl.”

— Giana Darling

83. “She was disarming me, in more ways than I could count.”

— Giana Darling

84. “I wanted time with him, I needed it more than I needed my next breath and even those were limited. There wasn’t time and there wasn’t much of a choice but whatever was left of both, I wanted to use to be with Zeus Garro.”

— Giana Darling

85. “The feeling that with Priest, every piece of me, dark and light, sweet and bitter, saintly and sinful was glued together by his acceptance into a beautiful mosaic. That feeling that with him, I’d never been so beautiful and whole. We were two broken halves that locked together in a way that could never be undone.”

— Giana Darling

86. “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

87. “Do it for you, Lou. Do anythin’ for you.”

— Giana Darling

88. “He was a man ruled by his impulses and his gut cried out to take Elena’s strength and overpower it with his own. He didn’t understand a woman like her. He wanted to break her to prove his machismo, not understanding that a true man stood beside a woman like that and was made more powerful by her own strength at his back.”

— Giana Darling

89. “I wanted to respect this sacrifice he was making, summoning old demons just to show me why they existed.”

— Giana Darling

90. “But there was no way my guilt or morals were going to keep me away from my girl when she was in distress.”

— Giana Darling

91. “You’re a King who makes her want to be his rough-and-tumble Queen,” I said before I could stop myself, our whispered conversation lending a confessional tone to our words.”

— Giana Darling

92. “His words in ink on paper were my Bible, his attention my place of meditation and his hands on my skin? The same hands I’d dreamt of every day for a decade. That I’d prayed for with more fervency than any virtues I’d been told to worship at church. They were my ultimate blessing.”

— Giana Darling

93. “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

94. “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.”

— Giana Darling

95. “Whoever said beauty was a gift had clearly never experienced it for themselves because it was nothing but a prettily wrapped curse.”

— Giana Darling

96. “Cut through the thicket of dangerous thorns surrounding her gorgeous, one-of-a-kind heart, so that I could hold the tender, fragile bud in my hand and watch it grow. Dominate her mind, body and soul until every molecule of her person was imprinted with my name.”

— Giana Darling

97. “He kissed me like he owned me, one hand going to the skin over my heart and pressed there, warm and heavy, and the other diving into my hair so he could hold me how he wanted. I felt his claim almost painfully as he tattooed himself into every inch of my skin, synchronized himself to beat of my reborn heart.”

— Giana Darling

98. “One bite of the apple, one taste of temptation, and it’s fuckin’ hard to go back.”

— Giana Darling

99. “Doesn’t matter, babe. It’ll be flipped up when I get you bent over the desk about two seconds after I get my hands on you.”

— Giana Darling

100. “She was so fuckin’ lovely in her despair, tragic in a romantic way like Juliet before her Romeo. Of course, even my Flower Child made heartbreak look pretty.”

— Giana Darling