Jessica Gadziala > Quotes

“Sometimes love didn't spring up on you in a moment of blinding clarity. Sometimes it crept up on you on a Tuesday night while you were standing at the sink doing dishes, the feeling settling into your soul in a way that made it too heavy to ignore anymore.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Monster

“I want pussy,” I said, looking down at her, “I go get some pussy. I don't stare at it through a fuckin' computer screen. I get my fingers and cock inside a real one. And maybe, if it's real sweet, I'll get my tongue in it too.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Monster

“Now there were plenty of words to describe the kind of rippling muscle perfection that greeted me. Jacked. Ripped. Built. Drool-worthy. Man candy. God damn! But the most appropriate seemed to be: holy fucking shit.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Monster

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jessica Gadziala, The Stars Landing Deviant

“If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, the fucker will jump right back out. It knows it’s wrong, it hurts, it will kill him. But if you put him in a pot and slowly raise it up to boiling, he’ll stay. That’s what abuse is like. You might not even notice it’s happening at first. You’d brush it off as him having a bad day, you pissing him off. But then it starts getting worse in small ways until you’re in so deep and you’re so hot and your skin is peeling and you don’t know if you even remember you can jump anymore. That doesn’t make you weak. You got out of that shit, baby. That makes you stronger, a lot stronger, I think, than you even realize.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Shane

“Survivor' meant nothing but breath in your lungs. I didn't become a survivor. I became a badass bitch. That was the choice I made.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Wolf

“Very few people know loyalty anymore." "Do you?" I asked, needing for my own piece of mind to know. "Did I maybe start flirting with Shelly when I was still dating Meg in high school? Yeah, I did. I was sixteen and stupid as fuck. But I grew up. I watched countless families get torn apart by infidelity. I have had to comfort dozens of crying women in my office when I handed them the pictures they paid me to take. And I've gotten to witness the awful thing that happens when they stop crying." "What's that?" "They make up their minds to never let themselves get hurt like that again. See, cheating doesn't just screw up that one relationship, it tends to screw up every single one later because the person gets bitter or scared or distrusting. It's a sad fucking thing to see. And it's not something I am ever willing to do to a woman." He paused and I let those words sink in.”
― Jessica Gadziala, 367 Days

“What?” Eric said, leaning closer and kissing her cheek. “Never had a man pay for dinner before?”
“I usually try to pay.”
“Of course you do,” he said, his tone somehow both teasing and kind.
“Well... society being what it is... when a man pays for a meal he generally expects more than a thank you.”
“Boys,” he said, his voice a bit disgusted. “expect more than a thank you. A man is just happy to spend a few hours in your company.”
― Jessica Gadziala

“Every woman is a hallway full of locked doors under different names: past, future, hopes, fears, lust, and love. Some men come with keys. Some men come with lick picks. Byron St. James comes with a chainsaw.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Debt

“I refuse to get any more scars from loving edges sharp enough to cut me.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Dissent

“But please refrain from torturing me with your asinine male chauvinistic ramblings first. Having tits doesn't negate having a fucking brain, you idiot.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Monster

“Aw babygirl, tell me you want to get stabbed somewhere naughty," he”
― Jessica Gadziala, Killer

“I hope one day, darling, that you will know the touch of a man who loves you. I pray you will know how wonderful that is. How rare and beautiful. How godly. Even if it isn't within the union of marriage. It isn't wrong. Nothing is more right.”
― Jessica Gadziala, For a Good Time, Call...

“You might want to ease up on the perfume." "I'm not wearing perfume." "Sure you are. I think it's called 'Ode To Get The Fuck Away From Me'."  I looked at her face quickly enough to see her have to force her lips to stay in a straight line. "Apparently I need to go put on some more," she said,”
― Jessica Gadziala, 367 Days

“A strong person like you doesn't have break downs. They have moments. You're having one.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Renny

“Since the fuck when did it become normal to judge someone by their low moments? We all have them. Those moments aren't what make us. What makes us is what we do after, how we raise ourselves up.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Lazarus

“Jasper felt the sadness then. A strong sensation of being pulled underwater, of being helpless to do anything but sink. Further into the despair. Until it completely surrounded you. Until every breath you took was just swallowing more pain. Until you were in so deep that there wasn't any hope of ever breaking the surface again.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Into The Green

“A man like Paine told you to follow him into hell, you ignored the demons and fire and went with him.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Savior

“Women don't trade pussy for kindness," he started. "Thinking you're owed something for not being an asshole, makes you an asshole. She ain't a bitch 'cause she doesn't want your dick, but you sure as fuck are a dick for calling her a bitch just because she has some standards that you obviously don't meet.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Killer

“Bumped uglies?” I repeated on a laugh. “You are a retired phone sex operator and the best you can come up with is ‘bump uglies’? I’m disappointed in you.” “Gland to gland combat? Slytherin in the Hufflepuff? Doing the monster mash? Verbing the adjective noun?” I”
― Jessica Gadziala, Shane

“There was a familiar singsong ding from the front of the house and, not a half a second later, my mother called from the kitchen. "Oh, honey, can you get that? I have my hands full."

Of bullshit.

Utter bullshit.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Peace, Love, & Macarons

“He had showed me some of his damage. And he was ashamed of that. Little did he know, I wasn't someone who could judge. So what if he had anger issues? I had ripping myself open issues. And alcohol issues. And daddy issues. And brother issues. And grandmother issues. I was the Long Island iced tea of damage: everything but iced tea included.”
― Jessica Gadziala, For a Good Time, Call...

“What is it about our society that teaches 'don't be a victim' rather than 'don't be a criminal'?”
― Jessica Gadziala, Savior

“You okay?" his sleep-rough voice reached out to me from across the room, sending an unexpected shiver across my skin. My head snapped in his direction of its own mind and he had already kicked in the leg rest. His feet were on the ground, spread wide. His leather cut was gone, leaving him just in jeans and the tight black tee. His elbows were on his knees, his back curled forward, his sleep-puffy eyes on me. "Fine," I strangled out, fighting the urge to put my hand over where my heart was slamming in my chest. "Don't lie," he chastened quietly, shaking his head at me. "Don't wanna talk, don't." He paused. "But don't lie." Well then. I kind of liked that. Everyone else wanted to pry. Everyone thought they had the right to demand I spill all my dark secrets. It was really refreshing to come across someone who acknowledged my right to keep my private feelings private.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Wolf

“Our souls spoke in the same language- the language only women can fully understand, babe.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Wolf

“Find a man who buys the half-dilapidated fixer-upper and not the guy who buys the brand new model. The guy who can see potential and is willing to roll up his sleeves and get to work and make it the best it can possible be, who will love discovering all the hidden gems hidden inside, all the history, all the layers, that's the kind of man you want to settle down with; not the guy who only sees the pretty, the perfect. Because one day, that pretty and perfect will need work. And he won't want to do that. He will just move on to the newer and prettier.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Lazarus

“The grief that was so strong it shook like continental shifts, dividing what was now from what was, forcing me to acknowledge that I was going to have to build a life on foreign soil.”
― Jessica Gadziala, The Stars Landing Deviant

“You know, if it wasn't for all those tattoos and piercings, you turned into an attractive young man." "Thank you ma'am," I smiled, deciding not to tell her that I got boatloads of pussy that liked the look of my tattoos and liked the feel of one particular piercing of mine.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Killer

“Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...”
― Jessica Gadziala, Into The Green

“He was the one, the one who was capable of getting in and putting down roots.”
― Jessica Gadziala, Cash