35 quotes found
“I was asked a series of ques”
“Theyd come for you, and this time theyd come with we”
“They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with we”
“I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared.”
“I know youve forgotten me, but Ill remember you as long as I live.”
“I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.”
“You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyesthough if you were shy, I coul...”
“what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy”
“people say life is ”
“The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than Id seen before. You called out another mans name.”
“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.”
“dont tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve. if i speak of these things its because i have to but i am not speaking to you.”
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.”
“Thats why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you homethat I had given my life to lie down next to...”
“My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could feel the ripple of need on the pads of my fingertips, on the palms of my hands, on the skin of my ...”
“I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.”
“Not your distress. Never that. I loved I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.”
“So. Monday. We meet again.We will never be friendsbut maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.”
“I didnt know what ”
“I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.”
“Im nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole”
“If the worst you can say about an otherwise sweet-natured and pleasant romance novel is that the main characters are just too wholesome to suit you and your bitter, bitter, cat-infested, 7-years-fr...”
“the only thing worse than a bigot is an ally who cant stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.”
