J. Bengtsson > Quotes

“It’s a trap,” Grace warned
“Don’t look him in the eye.”
“He’s using your newness against you,” Finn cautioned.
Scott groaned. “Don’t listen to them, Rory … just because you’re young and inexperienced and don’t know any different doesn’t mean a thing. This is about me wanting to bond with my new drum-in-law. If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“I’m yours. Never forget that.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“Stay.” He cut me off and grabbed my arms. “Stand up to her. Live your own life…her…with me.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“I decided right then and there that I loved this boy. I didn’t care that I’d only known him for a day. I didn’t care that he was living hard on the streets. I didn’t care that he’d lied his way through the day. All I cared about was the way he made me feel – like I was the only one for him. The girl who hurt his eyes.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“You know nothing about me.”
“Oh, but I do. You’re just a girl who doesn’t know she’s mine yet,” I said. Certain. “But you will.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“We’re in this together, aren’t we?”
“Michelle.” His fingers found mine and he squeezed. “After what we’ve been through, no one else will want us.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“I’ve decided,” he said.
“What have you decided?”
“I’ve decided to let you save me.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“I get paid for my time, not sex, but if she’s hot and wants it, I say why not? I’ll throw it in as a freebie.” “And if she’s not hot?” “I’ll probably still throw it in. My standards aren’t real high.”
― J. Bengtsson, Fiercely Emma

“His fingers, long and nimble, closed around mine and the familiarity sent a wave of heat through me. My god, it was Rory Higgins. These hands were the first to ever touch me. They’d awakened me. The things he’d done, the way he’d made me feel…it wasn’t an exaggeration to say he’d ruined me for all others.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“What we’d lived through would have broken many other marriages. It had stripped us raw and left us jagged. But Scott and I had walked it together, every brutal step, and he hadn’t just loved me through it, he’d lived it beside me, through the fear, the waiting, and all the things you don’t say out loud.
That we were still standing proved we were solid.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“Falling in love was a funny thing. I’d always assumed it was something that crept up on you slowly, a feeling that gradually blossomed into something bigger and better until you knew that, yes, this was the one. But that’s not how it was at all. Not with Finn. Love with him was like a punch in the gut, leaving me dazed and breathless. I didn’t have time to prepare or to protect myself, he just barrelled into my life and staked his claim on my heart. And although I did my best to slow the process down, there was no way to stop it. Love could not be turned off any more than it could be forced on.”
― J. Bengtsson, Fiercely Emma

“You know I’ll always love you … I’ll always want you.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“I like you,” she said. “More than I should.”
“I like you.” I shot back. “Exactly the right amount.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“We can’t go back, Kyle. Life was never meant to be traveled in reverse.”
― J. Bengtsson, Hunker Down with the McKallisters

“Aren’t you scared? The whole world has gone to hell. How are we ever going to get back to what it was?” There was a long pause before he replied. “We can’t go back, Kyle. Life was never meant to be traveled in reverse.”
― J. Bengtsson, Hunker Down with the McKallisters

“genuine”
― J. Bengtsson, Next In Line

“He saw me. Not who I was supposed to be but me.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“The interview took about ten minutes. Apparently my life was so boring I couldn’t even get my fifteen minutes of fame.”
― J. Bengtsson, The Theory of Second Best

“Michelle, I know you’re the one. You and me, we’re going to do great things together. I can feel it.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“It wasn’t just the way he looked or the things he did to me to slay me. It was that I wanted him right down to my core. I’d never been so sure of anything in my life.”
― J. Bengtsson, Next In Line

“The second my mother lays eyes on you, she’ll be plotting our engagement. If you can’t handle that, speak now or forever hold your peace.”
― J. Bengtsson, Fiercely Emma

“If there was one thing us McKallisters did well, it was to close ranks when tragedy struck. You were either in by way of DNA or you were in by holding on to your chosen McKallister for dear life.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“I think you’re tired of safe. You want the kind of night you have to lie about later.”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“For the most part, I found people to be fairly black and white, but Jake was more like fifty shades of gray… and not the good kind.”
― J. Bengtsson, The Theory of Second Best

“Once I understood that someone like you could love me, it changed my whole life. You saved me, Grace. In every way”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“So much for this being my ticket to a better life,” Dad huffed. “It doesn’t get any better than this,” Mom deadpanned. “Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of,” Dad grumbled.”
― J. Bengtsson, Cake

“I’d taken him in. I’d loved him and nurtured him and given him a home inside my heart. I’d given him other things, too – like, all of me. He was my first love, and if my heart had only had its way, he would’ve been my last.
He was the one who got away, the OG owner of my former lovesick, teenaged heart.”
― J. Bengtsson, Grace Note

“I didn’t lose anything by choosing you, Scott. I gained everything”
― J. Bengtsson, What Lasts

“Six seconds, Kyle. That’s all it took for you to get on my nerves.” “I was going for four, but I’ll take six.”
― J. Bengtsson, The Theory of Second Best

“Jess was someone I could see myself with, not just for a night but for life.”
― J. Bengtsson, Next In Line