Morbidly Yours Quotes

“Mo chuisle? It means ‘my pulse.’ I never quite understood it before, what it meant to have another person be the d-driving force behind the pump of your blood, but it’s true. Lark, your smile saved me like an emergency transfusion. Your laugh is the song my every blood cell dances to. Your touch revived me from darkness. You are my pulse. You make me feel alive even when I’m surrounded by death.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Who are you, and what have you done with Callum Flannelly?” “Lark, I’m more myself with you than anywhere else.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You don’t need to pretend. I want to share in your happiness and in your sorrow.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Classic. Contemplative Cancer.” How the hell? “Run a background check on me, didya then?” “Pfft. I just did the math. Besides, this”—Lark gestured to my entire form—“screams crustacean. I had you pegged as a water sign from the first time we met.” “I don’t believe in that. And refrain from suggesting you’ve pegged me, please.” “Would you let me run your natal chart? You’re a Scorpio moon, I bet.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Rehearsing the words in my head over and over, I practiced my order. Interactions with strangers always spiked my blood pressure.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You’ve been telling yourself lies for too long, darlin’. It’s time to un-learn them.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You deserve a little graveyard smash.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“And she’s introduced more joy into my life than I could imagine.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Callum had become my haven … and I had become his. It snuck up on me, unplanned and unforeseen, but that didn’t make it any less true.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Lark was beautiful. And not only objectively, based on facial geometry or social consensus. Beautiful to me. Utterly captivating.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“And people who have a moon in Scorpio means they keep a drawbridge around themselves. Impenetrable unless they choose to trust. When they let someone in, it awakens a sense of deep loyalty.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“I feel safe with you, Cal.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Lark selected a table near the stage. I’d have preferred to sit further back. Hell, I’d have preferred to be at home, but had promised myself that I’d make an effort.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Regardless of shared DNA, I refused to think of him as “Dad.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You know … the body bags. What are they for?” “Bodies,” I answered, not understanding the question.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“He’s hot in a ‘Damien Rice song’ kinda way.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You make me want. I’ve never wanted anyone like this,”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Tragedy made me appreciate serendipity even more.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“And miss all the moments that send the butterflies loose in your stomach? No way. First date, first kiss, first slow dance. Popping the question and hearing yes. The falling matters, too. Not just the ever after.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Tradition is important, but so is personal agency.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You look exquisite.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Did I need to breathe? Oxygen was inconsequential compared to her bliss.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“You needed me,” she said simply. “Of course I came.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“To love was to accept risk.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“What would Dolly do?”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“The song was right: life was quite absurd. Because as he’d sung, I realized I was in love with Callum Flannelly.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“I will put you in your grave with a smile on my face if you say another word about that woman who is a hundred times your equal.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“That’s my girl.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“Everything else fell away. Nothing remained but Lark and the intimacy we shared.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours

“When I filled her, she filled me with awe. Until there was no room for loneliness. Only Lark. Only us. Only these perfect moments.”
― Ivy Fairbanks, Morbidly Yours