Lee Savino > Quotes

“It was what you were used to all your life. And it’s true what they say, unfortunately. We are attracted to partners like our parents because it’s all we know.”
― Lee Savino, Innocence

“loved roses. They always come with thorns. Beauty plus pain.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Angelo skittered off with his tail between his legs. Marcus would have to watch that. Angelo had a big ego”
― Lee Savino, Innocence

“Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Belladonna. The aptly named. Beautiful woman. Poison.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Battleman’s disease.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns

“Don’t expect life to be fair. This rage will do nothing but destroy you. Instead, use that energy to create. If you must destroy, destroy only those who are your enemies, not yourself.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns

“Take my advice: wait. Wait for the one.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Once I claim you, you’re mine. There will never be another man for you. I tried to deny it for years, but you’ve always been mine, Daphne.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Rosa x hybrida,” I murmur the Latin name. The thick rosette petals are like a fancy lady’s ball gown and petticoats. Definitely a hybrid bloom.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“This foyer is covered in roses. Red and white and rose, but all I see is green. The color of emeralds. Of absinthe. Of poison.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns

“My heart was frozen as the winter earth, and her touch melts the bitter frost.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“The way I see it, life is equal parts hurt and love. If I numb myself to one, then I miss out on the other.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns

“Sitting up slowly so I don’t get dizzy, I let the blanket fall away. And then I see him. The Alpha. The Brutal One.  He’s sitting in a large metallic stool, his large, tattooed hands resting on his knees. His midnight hair streams over his shoulder. He’s watching me.  For a moment”
― Lee Savino, Brutal Mate

“Not that it mattered. She was never coming back here. She pulled open the door and escaped into the night.”
― Lee Savino, Innocence

“Don’t tell me you believe in soulmates? If by soulmates, you mean a woman made for you as you were for her, then yes. Dr. Laurel had been perfectly serious. A scientist who applied reason to everything but his relationship with the love of his life. True love does exist, son. And it’s worth the wait.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Hercules too committed a great sin, and so in penance, the oracle told him to go serve King Eurystheus and do all that he asked of him. The King set him to twelve labors, each more difficult than the last.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns

“A quote by Joseph Campbell: ‘If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“You know the great thing about rock bottom?” Armand’s whisper tickles my ear. “There’s nowhere to go but up.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns

“Denying her meals if Demi thought she was getting too thick around the middle. The daily barrage of demeaning words and name-calling.”
― Lee Savino, Innocence

“But then it hit. The weight around her ankle. It was gone. She frantically turned on the bedside lamp. Holy shit! She lifted up her ankle. And then laughed in disbelief. The weight around her ankle was gone, along”
― Lee Savino, Innocence

“You’re mine. You’ve always been mine. ‘Til the day we die and beyond. ‘Til stars fall and this world is forgotten. Forever.”
― Lee Savino, Queen of the Underworld

“I’m Daphne of the myth. She turned into a laurel tree.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty's Beast

“Ubeli isn’t foolish enough to attack a police station. That’s not how his kind works. Now you just rest up while I make some calls and we’ll see about a more permanent situation for you.” But Cora hadn’t been able to do anything other than pace back and forth in the small room and then finally curl up into a ball on the chair while waiting for any news. Whenever she shifted on the chair, she was reminded of last night. Of what it felt like when Marcus had finally… Taken the last of your innocence.”
― Lee Savino, Innocence

“Socrates says if all the world’s suffering was laid in a pile, most people would choose their own portion. I wouldn’t change my life for anyone else’s. But I’ve been numb for too long.” I lock eyes with him. “I’m ready to be awake to my life. Even for the parts of it that hurt.”
― Lee Savino, Beauty and the Thorns