Top 200 Giana Darling Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Monsters aren’t so monstrous when you understand where they came from.”

— Giana Darling

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

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. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “I focused on my breath, the harsh drag of it into my lungs and out through my mouth. There was a crack in the foundation of my life threatening to collapse everything I’d ever known. A previously unknown portion of my brain reminded me that life grew in the cracks, the earth pushing up through those imperfections to fill them with green and flowers.”

— Giana Darling

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Giana Darling

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

— Giana Darling

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

— Giana Darling

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

— Giana Darling

69. “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

70. “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

71. “Not all love stories play out in the light. Some of the best romances occur in the veil of shadows.” Z’s smile was bright and quick as a lightning strike against his dark face. “I don’t fuckin’ doubt it.”

— Giana Darling

72. “I have to believe if I ever felt moved to marry, it would be because I wanted my lover to have my name, my protection, and the promise of my love no matter what should happen in the future. I think it’s a promise that should never die, even if the love is gone. One that says I will care for you, stand up for you, and be there for you no matter what.”

— 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. “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

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. “My rebel Rose looked so peaceful in her sleep, so at odds with her waking hours when she seemed provoked to take on the world. That was the beauty of Harleigh Rose, she was a walking contradiction, the rebel and the saint, the good girl and the sinner.”

— 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. “He looked powerful and dark. A god in his den of iniquity.”

— Giana Darling

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

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

— Giana Darling

88. “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

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

— Giana Darling

90. “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

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

— Giana Darling

92. “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

93. “Feels like the purest form a sin to have these man-killin’ hands on such a fuckin’ angel.”

— Giana Darling

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

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

— Giana Darling

99. “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

100. “In my experience, if you could understand someone, it was nearly impossible to hate them.”

— Giana Darling