Top 200 J.M. Darhower Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I just wanted the hatred inside of him – the pride, the anger, the arrogance – to finally go away.”

— J.M. Darhower

152. “It’s a song, I realize, after a second, as it continues blaring. Hotline Bling.”

— J.M. Darhower

153. “What if we both can’t win?” “I’ve already told you what happens then.” “What?” “I give you the plank, Karissa.” It takes a moment for her to understand. The Plank of Carneades.”

— J.M. Darhower

154. “You make something beautiful enough and people forget just how much it can hurt you.”

— J.M. Darhower

155. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

157. “Dad’s pink slips come in the form of bullets to the brain.”

— J.M. Darhower

158. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

160. “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

161. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

163. “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

164. “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

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. “You were worth it.”

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

168. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

175. “You can stay, you know,” I tell her. “You don’t have to rush off.”“I know,” she says, playfully roughing up my hair until I smack her hand. “But the universe demands balance. You didn’t give it up tonight, which means it’s up to me, so I’m off to do my civic duty.”

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

180. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

182. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

185. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

187. “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

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

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

— J.M. Darhower

193. “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

194. “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

195. “The woman’s touch is witchcraft. It’s a sin to give in, but seeing as sinning is my specialty, I let her dark magic consume me, because what do I have to lose?”

— 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. “Morgan,” he says, his voice quiet as he whispers my name. My name. “Open your eyes, baby.”

— J.M. Darhower

198. “It’s like the man is an open book but whatever his story is just happens to be written in a different language.”

— J.M. Darhower

199. “That was me, angel.”

— J.M. Darhower

200. “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