C.M. Seabrook > Quotes

“I didn't realize you could break your own heart by hurting someone else's. (Mackenzie)”
― C.M. Seabrook, Fighting Blind

“Like the first time we kissed, the feeling of rightness settles over me. This is where she belongs. In my arms. (Theo)”
― C.M. Seabrook, Fighting Blind

“What I want is more than sex, more than just possessing her body. I want every fucking part of her. Her mind, her soul, her heart. (Theo)”
― C.M. Seabrook, Fighting Blind

“Your future is here.' He takes my hand and places it over his heart... (Keeley)”
― C.M. Seabrook, Melting Steel

“Twenty years ago I gave her something I've never given another woman - my vow. It may have been spoken with a child's voice, but it's the man's heart that will honor it now. (Henry)”
― C.M. Seabrook

“She’s mine.
But even as I think it, I know the truth. It’s me who belongs to her. Every last shredded ounce of my soul is hers.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Wild Irish

“The logical part of my brain reminds me that I barely know her, that she isn't my responsibility. But the Neanderthal part beats its chest, ready to threaten anyone who dares threaten her. (Henry)”
― C.M. Seabrook, Melting Steel

“Found the lost pieces of my heart. You’d carried them in your pocked all these years.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“I can’t love someone who, despite his confession, doesn’t love me. Because love fights. It struggles. It perseveres through the worst storms and comes out stronger. The only thing Zee has to offer me is torment.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Torment

“It’s her eyes that unnerve me. Hazel with flecks of gold and green. But it’s more what I see when I look into them that rattles me.
Pain, anger, fear, mixed with strength, passion and lust.
A chaos of emotions trapped behind a mask of self-inflicted rules. but I see it, something wild just waiting to be set free.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Wild Irish

“Memories fade and branches break, but home still calls my name…”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“It isn’t just sex.
It will be for me.
But, for me, all my emotions have been wrapped up in him, or, at least, the pre-teen memory of him, for so long, it’s hard to separate the two. I know how pitiful it is, wanting someone who doesn’t want you, who doesn’t even remember your existence. But those memories – the small kindness he showed me before my whole world flipped on its axis.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“I don’t want to bring them into this mess.
Don’t want them to know how much of a mess I really am.
If I tell Owen, I know he’ll pull his whole white-knight bit. Because that’s what he does. Who he is. And I don’t need anyone fighting my battles for me.
Except that this time, I really do.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” I”
― C.M. Seabrook, Second Draft

“I see her. I do. Every beautiful, broken piece of her. And I don’t want to let her go.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“I can’t walk away. Not from her. “Stay with me,” I say against her trembling lips.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“Twenty years ago I gave her something I’ve never given another woman – my vow. It may have been spoken with a child’s voice, but it’s the man’s heart that will honor it now.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Melting Steel

“Trouble. That’s what I’m in. Big time. I’d asked her what she wanted from me. But the truth is, I’m not sure what it is I want from her. I just know I want more. Need more. I want to break through the barricades we’ve both constructed around our hearts and let go.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“I’m not done with you, his eyes say.
You’re going to break me.
I’m going to fuck you, his smirk says.
And then break me.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“You’re my happiness,” she whispers, breathlessly.
“And ye’re mine, love.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Wild Irish

“Books aren’t just an escape, they’re my
connection to people – even if they aren’t real.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Second Draft

“God, the woman has undone me.
It’s terrifying to realize how much I actually care about her, how much she matters to me.
I’m not ready to give her up.
Not yet.
Maybe never.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“One touch.
One taste.
I want more. One night won’t be enough.
But it’s going to have to be.
I can’t let my emotions get tied up. She doesn’t belong here. And even if she did, I don’t have room in my life for someone like her. Someone who’ll demand more than I can give - everything.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Wild Irish

“Ireland is filled with tales and legends. It’s one of the things that makes it so special.
I lost that part of me when I left. The part that believed in more than what my eyes could see, or my hands could touch. And I wonder if, once you’ve lost it, once the veil has been removed and you see the harsh reality of life, you can ever get that childlike faith back.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“I can’t write what I don’t believe.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Second Draft

“Your future is here.” He takes my hand and places it over his heart,”
― C.M. Seabrook, Melting Steel

“Time is something I’ve always thought I had a lot of. It plays tricks on us. Sometimes slowing down, making us think that we have eternity. Sometimes speeding up, making us wonder where we wasted all those precious minutes. And then there are moments when time freezes altogether. Moments of clarity, moments that change us. That make us realize how short this life really is.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Second Shot

“One kiss, and it all came crashing down.
Like a tornado, she’d blown into my life and managed to turn my perfectly ordered world upside down.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“I can’t stand the thought of losing him again, but worse is the thought of never having him.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish

“She’s unhinged something inside of me. That primal instinct to possess and protect. And hell, if it doesn’t scare the shit out of me. But, I also know that if I don’t see where this can go, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.”
― C.M. Seabrook, Tempting Irish