Top 200 J.M. Darhower Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You can’t go back and change things once they’re done. You can’t rewrite history. Dwelling on it, wondering what could’ve been different, wondering how things might be in a perfect world, is a waste of time. Because this world isn’t perfect, life isn’t perfect, and it never will be.”

— J.M. Darhower

102. “Rats die. That’s just how it is. Loose lips get sewn shut before they’re tossed right off the ship.”

— J.M. Darhower

103. “That’s not what I asked... I don’t care about those boys who might’ve fumbled around between your legs a time or two. I want to know if you’ve been with a man.”

— J.M. Darhower

104. “The sensation of being inside of her, their bodies connected, sent a chill down Corrado’s spine that rivaled only the thrill he got from hearing her whimper and moan. He did that. He caused that. His hands – hands that roamed her flushed skin, hands that cupped her warm cheeks as he kissed her deeply – didn’t just cause pain. Those hands didn’t just brutalize. They were capable of pleasure, too, pleasure reserved for her.”

— J.M. Darhower

105. “You don’t pay to look at art. You pay to keep a piece of it.”

— J.M. Darhower

106. “Ah, that’s an argument I hear often,” Father Alberto said. “How can a God exist when it seems so many have been forsaken? But you fail to realize, son, without the bad we can’t truly appreciate the good.”

— J.M. Darhower

107. “You don’t know this, but that girl? She cries the entire way home from school. She isn’t crying because she got in trouble. It isn’t out of guilt or shame. Her tears have nothing to do with herself. She cries for you, because of the look she saw on your face when you walked away. There’s anger in your eyes again and tension in your jaw, and now she knows what that means.”

— J.M. Darhower

108. “Reason number twelve, you’ve got a mini-me out there somewhere, and I kind of want the chance to meet a little Scarlet.” “You don’t like kids,” I point out. “True, I don’t,” he says. “But she’s your kid, which means there’s a decent chance she’s not half-bad, either.”

— J.M. Darhower

109. “I happen to like my balls. They accentuate my cock quite nicely, you know. I’d show you, but well... you’ve got to earn that first. So pay attention, okay? There’s work to do here.”

— J.M. Darhower

110. “So much to say, but no words strong enough to clear the air between us.”

— J.M. Darhower

111. “I think you’re my apple,” she said quietly. “I don’t regret tasting you. I can’t. You’re not perfect by any means – there are sweeter out there, and you have a few rotten spots – but I’d never have found a juicer apple anywhere in the world.“-Serah.”

— J.M. Darhower

112. “I’m the kind of guy who will run into a burning building without thinking of the flames... especially since, you know, chances are I set the fire to begin with.”

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113. “Maybe he was dangerous, but for some reason, she trusted him.”

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114. “Don’t act like you Galantes are all roses,” he replied. “You’ve got more thorns than you do petals, princess.” Princess.”

— J.M. Darhower

115. “He ignites something inside of me, stirring up these little sparks in my gut that send jolts through my body, like a defibrillator to the heart.”

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116. “Come on,” I say. “Dance with me now.” “I didn’t realize you danced.” “I don’t,” I say. “But someone wise once told me that for the right woman, you’ve gotta be willing to do anything.”

— J.M. Darhower

117. “We’re a tragedy in the making. The game of tug-of-war we’re playing will end up destroying us, because she doesn’t have it in her to surrender, and I can’t let go.”

— J.M. Darhower

118. “It’s hard to feel alive when you’ve been obliterated inside, hard to feel real when you no longer remember how to dream.”

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119. “They say when seeking revenge, dig two graves, one for you and one for them.”

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120. “Lucifer wasn’t sure what to say. He’d survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.”

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121. “I wish he would draw a rope so I could pull it from my flesh and hang him with it. I’m sure he deserves it.”

— J.M. Darhower

122. “She’s young, and will probably move on someday, and get married, and maybe that dude will hate it but her? Her feelings won’t ever change. Because people we love die, but the love? It never does. It became eternal the moment he stopped breathing. She’ll always love his memory.”

— J.M. Darhower

123. “This wasn’t lust. It was something else, something greater. This wasn’t want; this was need, more so than she had ever felt before. It was despair, a drowning man desperate for air, a starving man scrounging for scraps to sustain him. He clung to her, like he held on for dear life, afraid of drifting away. No, not lust. This was love. And.”

— J.M. Darhower

124. “I’m young, and maybe I’m naive, and he’s dark, and maybe he’s a bit dangerous.”

— J.M. Darhower

125. “I’ve been trying to take the high road, you know, the Capone way...”

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126. “I thought I could play with you a bit, and let you go, but once I had you, Karissa, I had to keep you. I couldn’t walk away.”

— J.M. Darhower

127. “I choose my words carefully. Don’t say it unless you mean it. You never know when it might be the last thing you ever say.”

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128. “We keep the darkest parts of us to ourselves until we think others are ready to see them.”

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129. “He’s turned my blood to ice, stopped my heart from pumping it from fear that if it does, it might still beat for him.”

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130. “I prefer delivery and solitude.”

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131. “Because every single night, you tell her you love her. She knows you care, and that was the only promise you ever made her.”

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132. “Another?” she asked, picking up the water to take another sip, this one to soothe the sting in her chest. “You said one drink.” A sly smile curved his lips. “I like to keep them coming.” “Is that right?” “Absolutely.” He stood, leaning across the table, his lips near her ear. “Maybe you’ll let me show you later.” She.”

— J.M. Darhower

133. “This man and those hands... he doesn’t play fair. At all. He presses buttons he’s got no business pressing.”

— J.M. Darhower

134. “Everyone was good at something. Some people painted. Others played music. Corrado just happened to be good at murder. He accepted that. Embraced it. That was who he was. The Kevlar Killer.”

— J.M. Darhower

135. “Don’t know what?” “Why?” “Why what?” “Why me?” He stares at me for a moment. “Why not you?”

— J.M. Darhower

136. “I have a word problem for you.” “I’m listening” “If Naz forgoes sleep, and Karissa gets naked, how many orgasms can he give her before sun up?”

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137. “The notebook feels heavier than one ever should, but I know it’s not the paper weighing it down, but the memory of all those words. The notebook holds a piece of my heart, a piece of my soul, the piece I gave to him long ago.”

— J.M. Darhower

138. “That’s because I prefer it that way,” he responded. “Strong and rough, enough to leave a lingering ache. I like it to hurt just a bit.” Oh.”

— J.M. Darhower

139. “I didn’t say you weren’t fine. I said you looked lost, not that you didn’t know your way.”

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140. “I’ve seen love bring a monster back to life before, but most of the time, the monster just loves you to death.”

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141. “He’s a drug, an addictive one, and I’m not sure it’s a habit I can kick. All it took was one hit. One strong, euphoric hit and I was hooked.”

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142. “Lust was his favorite sin, without a doubt.”

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143. “I get that you don’t trust me, but stalking is only cool when Edward Cullen does it.”

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144. “Never take back something you meant. I’d rather you offend me intentionally if it’s something you believe than lie to my face just to placate me.”

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145. “The warnings are a shout in the wind, swallowed up in the atmosphere. He’s compelling and chivalrous, gorgeous and generous, and I’m intoxicated and in desperate need of something... something that he stirs up, something strong, and primal. He awakens the animal inside of me.”

— J.M. Darhower

146. “Haven, I could never love someone like you, because there isn’t anyone like you”, he said. “You’re one of a kind.”

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147. “So I sit, and stare, and wait, and cling to the little bit of hope I wake up with every day, but I don’t stop doing it, I don’t just give up, because maybe – goddamn it, maybe – I’ll find my wings again and get to soar.”

— J.M. Darhower

148. “She talks to me about regret, but what she doesn’t realize is that even if she destroys me in the end, I’ll never want to erase what we have. I’d never want to take back a single moment of this.”

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149. “Love is a terrible excuse. It’s dangerous to lose yourself in someone else.”

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150. “While maybe not Heaven, he was certainly home.”

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