Top 35 Mary Calmes Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Silence heals nothing, fixes nothing, and unlocks nothing. Just because you don’t say something doesn’t make it any less true.”

— Mary Calmes

2. “Everything sounds better in Italian.”

— Mary Calmes

3. “If being in bed with the wrong person could shatter you, could being in bed with the right one change your life?”

— Mary Calmes

4. “His smile was luminous. “I will say, though, in whatever form you take, wolf or man, you’re absolutely breathtaking.” Jesus. “And both will belong to me.”

— Mary Calmes

5. “I am so stupid, little man,” I told Phillip. “No you’re not. Lizzie in my class, she’s stupid. She eats her boogers. You don’t do that. I’ve been watching.”

— Mary Calmes

6. “If I didn’t watch so much TV, real life wouldn’t be so disappointing.”

— Mary Calmes

7. “You know, sometimes I’m so happy I worry that I’m gonna wake up.”

— Mary Calmes

8. “I shuddered hard and would have shifted, but his gloved hands were suddenly clutching at my fur. “Don’t shift out here; you’ll freeze. Be a good kitty and follow me home, alright?”

— Mary Calmes

9. “But I love him like crazy, you know? And when you love someone like crazy, should you stand around being scared that something might not work out, or do you do something about it and take a chance?”

— Mary Calmes

10. “I’ve got you,” he whispered into my ear. It went both ways.”

— Mary Calmes

11. “God, Jory, don’t you know, after all this time? Can’t you tell?”

— Mary Calmes

12. “You’re giving me goose bumps with your breath on my thighs! Jesus Christ, Nate, are you trying to kill me?” I waggled my eyebrows up at her. “Remember in The Breakfast Club – wait, how old are you?”

— Mary Calmes

13. “And Sanderson?” “Are you kidding? I bet his girlfriend is a dominatrix or something.” “Or his boyfriend.” “No, he’s so not cool enough to be gay.” She was very funny.”

— Mary Calmes

14. “He made my body remember what it was for. His touch on my skin, his breath on my face, his smell, all of it so desperately needed, so utterly wanted. It.”

— Mary Calmes

15. “Work hard, play hard – isn’t that the marshal motto?”

— Mary Calmes

16. “So help me God, if you don’t tell me where you are right this second I will shoot you myself as soon as I find your scrawny ass.”

— Mary Calmes

17. “A beat of time passed and then another until, wonder of wonders, the man smiled.”

— Mary Calmes

18. “I went boneless and pliant in his arms, letting him control the kiss, suck on my lips, tangle his tongue with mine, and hold me in his arms. “You are so beautiful.” He spoke the words against my mouth. “Please don’t change your mind; please don’t say no to me when we get home.” The word no never entered my mind.”

— Mary Calmes

19. “I was drowning, and I could not recall the last time it had happened so completely. “Voglio fare l’amore con te,” he whispered into my hair. “I don’t – ” “I wanna make love to you.”

— Mary Calmes

20. “How about now,” he said, gesturing over his shoulder. “In my bed.” I put my hands on my hips, staring at him. “I am not this hot. What’s up with you?”

— Mary Calmes

21. “You want me to shoot him? I can make it look like an accident.”

— Mary Calmes

22. “I smiled at Logan, so very pleased with him for seeing that Domin, too, needed a slice of Logan cake, needed his attention, validation, trust, and to be told, once and for all, that he mattered, that he, too, was necessary.”

— Mary Calmes

23. “Because now I realize that being a marshal or being a soldier isn’t my whole life, those two things aren’t all that I am.” His voice was thick with emotion, low and husky. “You’re in there too; you’re actually the most important part because I carry you with me wherever I go.”

— Mary Calmes

24. “You guys are like drug dealers peddling adrenaline.”

— Mary Calmes

25. “I FLEW over the rooftops of the city, listened to some jazz at Preservation Hall, drank rainwater down in Pirate’s Alley, ducked into a kitchen on Dauphine and Orleans and was fed by an old couple who was sure I was both tame and owned by a neighbor. It was the great thing about the city: nothing really surprised anyone. They expected to see things out of the ordinary. A black panther eating gumbo was normal.”

— Mary Calmes

26. “I have my work and my house, and now I have you here too. If I can keep you, I’m set, so I’m going to do my damnedest to make that happen because I’m a good person and I deserve you.”

— Mary Calmes

27. “Sometimes the choices others make take ours from us. Do you understand?”

— Mary Calmes

28. “The thing was, though, Ian was one of those rare guys who wanted the one person in the world who fit him like a glove, and that person, it turned out, was me. So, yes, Ian was still technically bi, but was exclusively now Miro-sexual and wasn’t interested in trying the buffet.”

— Mary Calmes

29. “I didn’t say anything; it wasn’t my place. The words be careful never passed my lips. I just prayed them over and over in my head.”

— Mary Calmes

30. “And I knew that. Male panthers, all of them, were a very Neanderthalish lot. They liked their mates at home when they were, around, underfoot, close enough to touch at all times. Semels were twice as possessive, twice as protective, and three times as caveman-inclined.”

— Mary Calmes

31. “Cause you don’t have to be on your guard with me. I ain’t laughing at you, I’m laughing along with you, and you need to learn the difference.” – Rand Holloway.”

— Mary Calmes

32. “Did you ever think that the only thing you’re supposed to do is just love me?”

— Mary Calmes

33. “I get that we’re both young and some people will say it’s a phase or whatever, but I know better. You’re the one.”

— Mary Calmes

34. “I did dream, now I live in it.”

— Mary Calmes

35. “Remember, body armor is your friend.”

— Mary Calmes

36. “Usually I was the scariest thing in the dark.”

— Mary Calmes