Top 200 J.M. Darhower Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Dad’s pink slips come in the form of bullets to the brain.”

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

153. “Unspoken questions shine from her eyes, but I don’t have the answers she wants to hear. All I have is the truth, the why, and it’s ugly. She might’ve thought she liked it dirty, but she doesn’t know dirty. She can’t know it, unless she has lived it. Unless she is it.”

— J.M. Darhower

154. “She seemed like a keeper. Housewife material, verses your usual whorehouse type.”

— J.M. Darhower

155. “But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from it all, it’s that we have to be our own heroes. No guy in a costume is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.”

— J.M. Darhower

156. “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.”

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

158. “And chickens and the breads, too!”

— J.M. Darhower

159. “I just wanted the hatred inside of him – the pride, the anger, the arrogance – to finally go away.”

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

161. “The family we’re born into is important, sure, but they’re not all we have. They’re not all we are. A part of life is making your own family. That’s the beauty of it all.”

— J.M. Darhower

162. “I don’t know if she was born this goddamn fearless, if it’s encoded in her DNA, gifted to her by her flawed bloodline, or if it’s something life taught her, something molded into her all those years she was unknowingly on the run. I wonder if she got that from her father, or if it was me who caused her bravery.”

— J.M. Darhower

163. “If she married me, I’d follow her to the gates of Hell.”

— J.M. Darhower

164. “I’m with her simply because I want to be. Because I need to be. Because she needs me, I think, and if I’m being honest, I need her just as much.”

— J.M. Darhower

165. “Fine, but go put on some clothes,” she says. “This is an inn, Mr. Cunningham, not Chippendales. I won’t have you at my breakfast table looking like a gigolo.”

— J.M. Darhower

166. “I’m paraphrasing, but yeah, a friend out of the Chicago organization did.” “Chicago? You tried planting your seed in the DeMarco family?”

— J.M. Darhower

167. “You’re not going to find her on the cover of a magazine. She’s more the kind you find at a museum, on a painting or in a piece of literature. Her beauty is in her soul.”

— J.M. Darhower

168. “She’s not just under my skin, she’s in my organs, wrapped up in my cells, infecting me.”

— J.M. Darhower

169. “Only you,” she said, as if she could read his mind. “It’ll only ever be you, Carmine.”

— J.M. Darhower

170. “Naz,” I whisper. “What’s going on?” “What’s going on is your mother isn’t happy to see you near me.” “Why?” I ask, my voice trembling. “Who are you?” “You know who I am,” he says. “The question you should be asking is who are they.” “Mom,” I call out. “Mom, what’s happening? How do you know Naz?” She doesn’t look at me, but I know she hears my words. Her alarm grows when I call him Naz. She pleads with him more. “Please, she’s my daughter... my little girl.”

— J.M. Darhower

171. “You were worth it.”

— J.M. Darhower

172. “Can I ask you something?” Matty’s brow furrowed. “Sure.” “How do you fix your hair so your horns don’t show?” He.”

— J.M. Darhower

173. “Maybe love made you kiss all messy. Maybe love made you hungry for faces.”

— J.M. Darhower

174. “Oh, I haven’t done anything to you, angel.” He leaned forward, his lips near her ear as he whispered, “Yet.”

— J.M. Darhower

175. “She was free, she realized, and freedom terrified her.”

— J.M. Darhower

176. “We don’t ask questions when they fall, Serah. You know that. We just say goodbye and walk away.”

— J.M. Darhower

177. “Well, I haven’t convinced anyone to take a bite out of an apple lately, so I think we’re all pretty safe for the time being.”

— J.M. Darhower

178. “At least, when invisible, she remained safe.”

— J.M. Darhower

179. “Don’t tell me something happened to her,” I say, “not unless you want the world to burn.”

— J.M. Darhower

180. “It’s the most comforting feeling in the world. When you lose it, though, it’s the most.”

— J.M. Darhower

181. “He’d never seen anything so downright beautiful. A sense of peace fell over him, calming him, pacifying the always-tense nerves inside of him, and soothing his very soul. He wanted to take that moment, to capture it, and keep it forever.”

— J.M. Darhower

182. “It’s just a dress. But you? You’re beautiful. Dressed up, dressed down, not dressed at all. You’re beautiful every way you come... especially when you come.”

— J.M. Darhower

183. “Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know.”

— J.M. Darhower

184. “Everyone sees what you appear to be,” he says, “few experience what you really are.”

— J.M. Darhower

185. “His lips are the softest thing about him, warm and gentle, like a slice of heaven wrapped in hell, so worth battling the flames to feel his fire.”

— J.M. Darhower

186. “You always question what’s new. It’s human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you’re trained to see it that way. You’re brainwashed.”

— J.M. Darhower

187. “Somewhere out there, an angel had fallen today.”

— J.M. Darhower

188. “That was me, angel.”

— J.M. Darhower

189. “Look at you making a joke! You’re funny. No wonder Carmine fell in love with you.”

— J.M. Darhower

190. “He watches you the way Nicholas watched Samantha.”

— J.M. Darhower

191. “I think, if he did it, it was just desperation. Because looking at her, I know she’s my yellow. She’s the happiness inside of me.”

— J.M. Darhower

192. “Serah. She was different now, with her flushed cheeks and heartbeat so strong he could hear it where he sat, but remnants of the angel still lingered in her body. Her essence was intact, calling out to him, somehow connecting with a part of his soul so strongly that he could almost feel her heart beating within his own chest. Probably.”

— J.M. Darhower

193. “How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth...”

— J.M. Darhower

194. “And if you really love me,” he says, pulling off the tie before looking at me again. He looks furious. The sight of his anger, the icy tone of his voice, makes my knees weak. I’m definitely trembling now. “If you mean it, you’ll fight back.”

— J.M. Darhower

195. “There’s just something about you, Karissa,” he whispers, “something I’ve sought for a very long time.”

— J.M. Darhower

196. “You had me,” she whispered, cheeks flushing at the reminder. “I did,” he agreed. “But the past isn’t what matters. I live in the present, Genna. I live in the now. I had you, yeah, but what I want is to have you.”

— J.M. Darhower

197. “Everything I do, I do it in excess; everything I have, I have more of than I’ll ever need.”

— J.M. Darhower

198. “This was how it had to go-she was a sacrifice he had to make, collateral damage in his quest for retaliation – but this wasn’t how it was suppose to end. He wasn’t supposed to lose it all.”

— J.M. Darhower

199. “She wasn’t just his support system- his life vest as he drifted along a tumultuous river of turmoil- she was his everything. Without her, he would sink.”

— J.M. Darhower

200. “Reminding her that just because you lose a few battles doesn’t mean you’ll lose the whole war.”

— J.M. Darhower