R.L. Griffin > Quotes

“I’m going to fight. I’m going to fight for you. You need to remember that.”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

“Why keep putting yourself back together if you’re just going to keep breaking apart?”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

“She was held together by a thread. Not even a strong fishing wire, but the kind of thread that could fray and break in the wind. A thread that could unravel at any moment, scattering and smashing all the pieces of her that she as trying desperately to keep together.”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“Time makes things tolerable. Time gives you perspective on events that shake your world to the core. Time allows you to move forward. But time doesn’t change the pain that sits in your gut.”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“She was hard, numb. The hardness had come about recently, spreading through her brain and chest. She worried that if she were hit hard enough she would just crack”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“I don’t get paid to be nice. I get paid to be right.”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

“I want to be in the eye of the storm, holding your hand, and if you get sucked into it, I want to go with you.”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

“Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

“I want to see you at your worst. I want to see you all the time.”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“It's just that I love you and I can't seem to get past it." He smiled down at her. "You're really hard to love, but even harder to get over.”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“Maybe he stomped on my vagina and I’m pissed about it.” Stella Murphy”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“Hatred had invaded her entire being; every cell in her body had hatred in it. She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.”
― R.L. Griffin, Tension

“There’s No Waking From a Nightmare if You Aren’t Asleep”
― R.L. Griffin, Quiet Lies

“I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don’t want to deal with real life shit in a book. I’m reading to escape.”
― R.L. Griffin, Sunshine & Whiskey

“I think you may be right.” Stella thought for a minute he had read her thoughts. Then he said, “Best regret ever.” Jamie”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

“Seamlessly?” Stella’s laugh escaped her mouth and it was bitter and hard. “That may be an appropriate statement, because in order to look seamless, you must need to have an entire world of shit going on under the surface. I don’t see this seamless outside, but I’ll tell you I’ve never felt more lost inside.”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

“She wondered if everyone could smell it on her. It smelled like death and coffee, like lilies and dirt, and it permeated her.”
― R.L. Griffin, Tension

“You're holding her hand because you want to; She's holding yours because she needs to.”
― R.L. Griffin, Heart in Wire

“I believe in myself. I believe in Rachel. I believe that if there is a God, I don’t know how he could allow things to happen that happen on this earth. I walk amongst evil every day and I believe that the monsters sometimes win.”
― R.L. Griffin, Razorblade Kisses

“There is not a person out there who is just good or just bad, we all have layers and scars and graveyards.”
― R.L. Griffin, Razorblade Kisses

“The problem with being a good liar is you forget who you are under all those layers of deceit.”
― R.L. Griffin, Razorblade Kisses

“I’m not really good at small talk because I don’t care. I have a hard time talking to people I don’t know.”
― R.L. Griffin, Sunshine & Whiskey

“Hope is a funny thing, because the feeling is unmatched, like nothing else, but when it’s dashed, it leaves you empty. When the world crushed the hope she had now, the promise of tomorrow whispered “try again” in her ear.”
― R.L. Griffin, Razorblade Kisses

“I hope you never have to worry like I worry every day. It destroys faith and hope and everything good.”
― R.L. Griffin, Razorblade Kisses

“She’s the wire and you are the bolt cutters I needed.”
― R.L. Griffin, Heart in Wire

“Hope. It had tempted her with its beauty and suffocated her with is reality.”
― R.L. Griffin, Razorblade Kisses

“What’s the line? Where does it stop being okay? Is a dude being a dick okay, but when does that go to verbally abusive?”
― R.L. Griffin, Sunshine & Whiskey