Under Your Scars

“If you never find it in your heart to trust me again—if you neverbelieve another word I say—believe that I love you. My love isn’t perfect,and it isn’t beautiful. It’s broken and scarred and ugly, but all of it is yours.I will always be yours”

“If you’re so concerned about my humanity, Elena, then reach into my soul and find it, because I’m not sure I have any left.”

“Safe isn't a place. It's the people that love you.”

“My love isn’t perfect, and it isn’t beautiful. It’s broken and scarred and ugly, but all of it is yours. I will always be yours.  ”

“With a shaky breath, I hold the handkerchief to my face, hug her tomy chest, and weep with the angels.”

“But if you ask me to let you go?Angel, you know I can’t do that.If you’re gone, then what else do I have to live for?Hope.That’s what I have to live for. Hope that one day I might get to hearyou say, “I love you too.”So I’ll wait. I’ll wait as long as it takes.Forever yours,Christian”

“If you're so concerned about my humanity, Elena, then reach into my soul and find it, because I'm not sure I have any left.”

“Youare my everything. Mind. Body. Soul. I fucking love you, Elena, and youwill love me back. I don’t care if I have to destroy you in the process.”

“It’s a shame I’m already destined for Hell, because it’s not whereangels belong.But I’m not going anywhere without her.”

“Okay baby... Just turn around and count to one hundred, and I'll get you some pancakes, okay?”

“That, my angel, is called Stockholm Syndrome.”

“You asked me to chase away the monsters under your bed. But the monster was never under your bed, was it? It was in your heart.”

“I would do anything for you. If you ask me to move the sun out of your eyes, I will push it with my bare hands. If you ask me for the moon, I will wrap it in a purple ribbon and hand it to you. If you ask me for all the stars in the sky, I will create an entire galaxy, just for you.”

“I’ve fallen in love with the most unlovable, virulent, tragic parts of him. And I’ve decided I love the taste of poison.”

“I feel like a survivor.”

“His love and his devotion have corrupted me.”

“God, I love it when he’s unhinged.”

“I can promise that I’ll always try to be the best version of myself for you.”

“Baby, I would never judge you for doing what you needed to do to survive.”

“You can ask me for anything else, Elena, anything else, and I'll give it to you without hesitation. Don't ask me to live without you. I won't survive.”

“It means that I’m going to make you want me as bad as I want you. I’m going to make you fantasize about how it feels to have my fingers in your greedy little cunt. I’m going to make you beg for my tongue against your clit. I’m going to make you so wet and needy for me that you’ll do anything to get me to relieve that hot, achy feeling inside you. Once you admit you want me, that’s when I’ll show my appreciation. With every part of me. On every part of you.”

“Do you believe in soulmates, Elena?”I think about it for a long time. Do I? Everyone wants to believethey exist. Everyone wants to believe that there’s someone out there thatwas always meant to love them.“I think if two people are meant to be together, then they will be. Idon’t know if that makes them soulmates though. I feel like a soulmateimplies some sort of…divine intervention. I think the best love stories comefrom the people who say that love came out of nowhere for them, not fromthe people who were looking for love in the first place.” I squeeze his handin mine. “Do you believe in soulmates?”The corner of his mouth tilts into a smile. “Not until I found you.”

“I don’t want to kill you, angel. I want to keep you all to myself.You’d better take off those rose-colored glasses and accept that the onlyplace you belong is in my black heart.”

“I think if two people are meant to be together, then they will be. I don’t know if that makes them soulmates though. I feel like a soulmate implies some sort of…divine intervention. I think the best love stories come from the people who say that love came out of nowhere for them, not from the people who were looking for love in the first place.”

“The hardest part about falling in love with an angel isn’t making her accept the fact that I kill people. It isn’t even keeping the identity under my mask a secret from her.”

“I am not Christian Reeves. I am not Christian Reeves. I. Am. Not. Christian. Reeves.”

“When I told you that you made me believe in soulmates, I didn’t just mean in this lifetime, or even in this universe. My heart has always belonged to you, even if I didn’t know it at first. I would love you even if I had no heart to give you, because you are the sole reason for my existence. My soul would love you if we lived on different continents and spoke different languages. My soul would be tethered to you across oceans and mountains and harrowing canyons as black as my heart. My soul would be yours if I pulled the trigger the night we met, because not even death could keep us apart. God couldn’t keep me from you, because God isn’t real, but you are, and that’s all the motivation I would have needed to find you.”

“I wish I could say I felt any semblance of guilt, or remorse, or hell, even nothing. I’d take feeling numb over loving the taste of death.”

“feel like a soulmate implies some sort of…divine intervention. I think the best love stories come from the people who say that love came out of nowhere for them, not from the people who were looking for love in the first place.”

“My heart has always belonged to you, even if I didn’t know it at first. I would love you even if I had no heart to give you, because you are the sole reason for my existence. My soul would love you if we lived on different continents and spoke different languages. My soul would be tethered to you across oceans and mountains and harrowing canyons as black as my heart. My soul would be yours if I pulled the trigger the night we met, because not even death could keep us apart. God couldn’t keep me from you, because God isn’t real, but you are, and that’s all the motivation I would have needed to find you.”