Toxic Love Quotes

“And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“We were burning, in which I thought meant desire, but the fire left more than scabs.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I never fell in love with you. I fell in love with the idea of us together.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“She would hate him even more if she knew all the depraved things he’d done. The fantasies, the stalking, the fucking obsession. That he had used her shampoo to jerk off and stolen her clothes, her lipstick. That when she wasn’t around, he had sometimes lain in her bed and imagined what it would be like to touch her the way she said she’d wanted to be touched in her journal.

And of course, he had watched her touch herself. Every catch of her breath, every discreet rustle of fabric, every teasing glimpse of brown skin—he had seen it all, and taken it as a sign that not even Jay was immune to pleasure. And, more importantly, that he could give it to her.

He could be the one to make her come.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“The cruel boy who had used to fling her own confused desires back into her face like a knife-thrower at a carnival had become a man who could charm her into holding those selfsame blades at her own throat.”
― Nenia Campbell, Sine Qua Non

“You could give them more chances but nothing would change.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“I don't want to cry anymore.
I think I would rather bleed.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“Why should I need to be with a man who hurts me?" -Ruth Ezrah”
― Oneal Walters, The Empty Couple: A Thriller

“I loved myself and since I loved me, I loved him because I realized he was good for me. A type of self worth, a type of narcissistic love.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“In theory, I never loved you. I loved us. That’s what everyone forgets.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“even those who emit the most alluring scent can still be toxic to your well-being.”
― Winnie Nantongo, Dining with the Enemy

“He steals your knees, not because he needs you, but because he feeds off of your fears.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“In my head, Eugenia's words repeat on a loop: We don't give our unconditional love to the things that hurt us. "I have loved this company with my whole heart, the whole time," I go on. "It has saved me, and healed me, and broken me in half. I've given the employees and the customers all I can. And now I just don't know if I have anything left to give." ...

... "I loved my CEO classes. I love the people I work with, and I love the work, too. But lately, it hasn't been loving me, my body, my mind. I'm not showing up as my best anymore,

”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“In my head, Eugenia's words repeat on a loop: We don't give our unconditional love to the things that hurt us. "I have loved this company with my whole heart, the whole time," I go on. "It has saved me, and healed me, and broken me in half. I've given the employees and the customers all I can. And now I just don't know if I have anything left to give." ...

... "I loved my CEO classes. I love the people I work with, and I love the work, too. But lately, it hasn't been loving me, my body, my mind. I'm not showing up as my best anymore,

”
― Clare Gilmore, Perfect Fit

“I wasn’t alive until it was over and that’s when I realized sometimes love isn’t forever. It’s forever instilled in a moment for us to become alive.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“We were riding fast, I got lost in the thought that this couldn’t end. Good things end. Bad things we reminisce.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“We weren’t running on fuel, we were running on fumes.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I found you in our truth. Running sideways for a broken muse who loved strangers as much as alcohol.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I knew I was toxic when you were in tears screaming at me, and all I could think was, 'Look how beautiful she is when she cries.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“Some people don't really love you. They just know you're a good person and would hate to see you loving someone else the way you loved them.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“Can we just die and go to Heaven together? Because I'm over whatever the f*ck this is.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“She asked, 'Would you rather be killed by someone you love or someone who hates you?'

And he knew she was right,”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“She asked, 'Would you rather be killed by someone you love or someone who hates you?'

And he knew she was right.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“Stop holding on to the people who have let you go.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“If you need to search for reasons to stay then you can just leave.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“Out of respect for myself, I had to stop talking to someone I truly loved.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“I remember a time in my life when my need to be loved was more important than my self-respect.

Never again.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“You can't tell people how much you miss me if you're the reason we stopped talking.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“I would rather die before I ever let you go.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“When you’re constantly abused, you don’t understand how emotionally and mentally draining it is. You’re truly immune and it feels like you need it.”
― Dominic Riccitello