Darling Quotes

“We are alike,” he said, “as no one else is, as no one else will ever be.”

The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“Oh, yes, she's unusual!" he said bitterly. "She blurts out whatever may come into her head; she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another; she's happier grooming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less dignity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and – a darling!”
― Georgette Heyer, Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle

“And neither do you, ciratile. you EVER try this shit again with me and mine, and i will rape and plunder the village ,and burn the motherfucker to the ground..." He looked around at the bodies on the floor. "And as you've seen here today there ain't nothing you bitches can do to stop me. Talk is cheap. Pain is free. And I'm peddling the shit out of it. so you come on and get some.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Silence

“She was my darling: difficult, morose -
But still my darling.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“I kiss my darling then.
And my darling kisses his sweetheart.”
― Saffron A. Kent, My Darling Arrow

“I don't want to stain your soul further.'
His smile is sad. 'There's not much left to stain, darling.”
― Lauren Roberts

“Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.
Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.”
― Lauren Myracle, Bliss

“Darling! Had they darlinged each other when they were here? I imagined them, magnificent on horseback, tossing darlings to and fro.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

“I get goose bumps when your fragrance touches me. Darling, I'm healing and you are breaking me again.”
― Sujata Nepal

“You declared yourself High Lady.'

'Was I not supposed to?'

He released my arm to brush his knuckles across my cheek. 'I've wanted to roar it from the rooftops of Velaris from the moment the priestess anointed you. How typical of you to upend my grand plans.'

A smiled tugged on my lips. 'It happened less than an hour ago. I'm sure you could go crow from the chimney right now and everyone would give you credit for breaking the news.'

His fingers threaded through my hair, tilting my face up. That wicked smile grew, and my toes curled in their boots. 'There's my darling Feyre.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Esme slowly turned the picture over, her hands beginning to tremble again. Inscribed across the back of the photograph, in a woman’s elegant script, were two words. The ink might have faded, but the sentiment would surely endure forever.

Dix’s strong, warm arms went around her. He rested his cheek against hers as they whispered in unison,“My Darling”.”
― Teresa Medeiros, Nobody's Darling

“Don't talk about love, my darling;
good girls don't do that.”
― Maya Amlin, If I Have A Daughter One Day

“Sweet dreams, my filthy little darling.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“Because I’ve decided that this stranger is not death, but my savior. An angel who is desperately trying to keep me here on this earth. To stay alive. To recover. To reunite back with him. To simply be with him.”
― Kristina Stangl, Wake Up, Darling

“All my heroes in my novels, they’re based on you. The dukes, the earls and the wealthy lords from my stories, they’re all based on you…”
― Kristina Stangl, Wake Up, Darling

“The story is still unfinished and so, I’m determined to write the ending. But how should I end it? Give my heroine a happily ever after? Reunite Jacob with Karoline? What about my own life? What about my own happily ever after?”
― Kristina Stangl, Wake Up, Darling

“Can we darling
converge ourselves
as a singularity?”
― Ihtesham Ahmad

“because to be is to exist
and to exist is to think and know and want
and those are the things
girls who are good haven't got.
So just don't be
because if you be,
then you are spending moments
pretending you're not a nobody.”
― Maya Amlin, If I Have A Daughter One Day

“It’s all you are.” I think, But it’s not all I want to be.”
― Justina Ireland, Chaos & Flame

“We saw people -- they were so far away but we knew they were people, they were not cinders or the leaves of calendars; we saw people who had no alternatives but to consign their bodies -- their bodies, I say, but I mean their lives -- to the air, people who are loved, I believe, by God, even as I believe their murderers are loved by God. Falling.”
― Richard Rodríguez

“The power the old exert over the young is the power to send the young to war -- flesh in its perfection dropped into a hellish maze of stimulus and response in order to defend an old man's phrase. A phrase! What? The American way of life? Yes. It galls me to say it, but yes. This paragraph costs me nothing. And yet I know it cost the life of a boy or a girl with a ready body and a mind not ripe. N one will come to question me this evening.”
― Richard Rodríguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

“Darling, it doesn't work like that. You cant be missing for months and expect him to be one with you every time you return.”
― Nitya Prakash, HOPE - Hold On Pain Ends

“I love your tennis skirt darling you look beautiful but so much work needed to be done on you in order to suit it nicely.”
― Nozipho N. Maphumulo

“Darling,
I love you so. More than all of the stars dancing across the sky. They are gloriously lacking compared to you.

Love,
Me.”
― Frances Woodard, Strings of Fate

“Lucky me, I learned to make peace with fear long ago”
― Justina Ireland, Chaos & Flame

“Never trust someone the servants fear. There is a great deal to be learned about a person by the way they treat those they see as lower than them.”
― Justina Ireland, Chaos & Flame

“Do that again, darling," he said into my ear. "That was the sexiest little sound."
Darling. No one had ever used that endearment for me before. But it turned out that that word, in Leo's crisp accent, was pure fire, affection, and protectiveness all mixed up together.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Oat milk and one sugar, just how I liked it, and the comfort of it made me sigh. "It's like I made it myself. Thank you."
He gave me the kind of look that would burn my clothes off. "I like knowing what you like, darling."
Jesus, I didn't know an old-fashioned endearment could be so suggestive.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In