11 Quotes by Karin Biggs

Capalon didn’t fall victim to the distracting illusion of love. We knew the truth—that love was just a word given to the release of various chemicals in the brain which could easily be ignored with dedicated practice.

Darden felt love was most alive hidden under layers of illusion. Layla felt love was too painful and best avoided. But knowing that I loved Ari, and that he loved me, I wanted nothing but him. And I wanted him to have all of me – not an illusion or an avoided risk. And above all, I wanted the freedom to love.

If you love somebody, you go back to them. You always find a way to go back to them.

Your love for me was the real secret message.

You looked like a girl who was starved of a certain kind of love and found the one person who could give it to you, but you refused to do anything rational about it.

Because my mother was dead, and I was an idiot for believing she was alive. Because the boy I loved rejected me. Because he said we could never be anything more than enemies. And because I knew he was right.

Capalon didn’t fall victim to the distracting illusion of love. We knew the truth – that love was just a word given to the release of various chemicals in the brain which could easily be ignored with dedicated practice.

Tasting the forbidden evils of love in all its forms only led to suffering.

Honey’ and ‘baby’ did not, in fact, address a bee’s sugary creation or an infant.