Quotes by Shelly Crane

“It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.”

“The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A...”

“Think with your eyes open.”

“He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. There it is. He palmed his chest again and sighed. All is right in the world again.”

“You're killing me, little human.”

“His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like Id put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.”

“There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasnt sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before Id given h...”

“But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.”

“Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earne...”

“I smiled sadly and whispered, "I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know.""I know," he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, "and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time.”

“We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.”

“We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.”

“You know when youre on a course that you know is the right one. You cant explain it, you cant define it, you dont know how you got there or what all the obstacles will be, you just know the end res...”

“When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. When will you learn that its up to you if you play those parts or not?”

“Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers dont ever leave.”

“Jealousy is when you want something that you cant have, something that doesn't belong to you. Being protective is defending whats yours. He leaned in, his hand closing around my jaw as his nose ski...”

“Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.”

“I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.”

“Fall, sweetheart. I'll catch you.”

“You don't appreciate the things that come easy. The things we fight for are the things we keep with us forever.”