Rebecca Sharp > Quotes

“To Dr. Spencer Reid, Criminal Minds did you dirty, Pretty Boy. You deserved a happy ending, so this one’s for you.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“At this point in my life, there was only one type of man I was allowed to be attracted to, fictional.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“You can drag as many clouds as you want in front of the sun, honey, but that doesn’t stop it from shining.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“He didn’t kiss me like I was his last meal—like I was something to draw out and savor; he kissed me like I was his first meal. Like I was his first taste of something so delicious, he couldn’t stop himself from gorging.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“One day, I’d explain that happy endings were only for books. In real life, love was only ever the start of happy beginnings.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“Make better mistakes. That was our phrase. Mistakes happened in life—especially in mine. There was no stopping them, so all you could do was muddle through and hope to make better ones—less messy ones—in the future.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Gunner

“Are you finger fucking or fact fucking me?”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“Being with her made me feel like I had so much more to live.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“I don’t want to be your book boyfriend or your hero, Zoey; I want to be your mountain. I want to be the thing you know will always be there no matter what—the one you can always trust.” He kissed my cheek, turning my tears into tattoos of his lips. “And the mountains don’t wait for the clouds to clear or for the thunder to stop in order to stand tall, so I’m not going to wait for Roscoe to leave or for us to find your stalker before I tell you that I love you. Before I tell you that you aren’t the center of my world, you are my world.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Hunter

“Did you know studies show more pathogens are exchanged by shaking hands than a ten-second kiss?”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“If tacos are God’s donation to world peace, then book boyfriends are his apology to women for men in real life.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Hunter

“You see, the brain does this incredible thing when it experiences trauma. It isolates the details—the memories. It hides them—buries them under scar tissue until, with time, all that’s left is a fossil of the pain that once existed. At least, for you.” I let my eyes move between theirs. “But all this time, I’ve remembered it all. Carried it all. Every detail. Every look, every tear, every sob, every scream. I’ve carried it all.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“Permanence isn’t something that should be feared… or taken for granted.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Archer

“I know a lot of things seem broken right now, baby. I know it’s hard to want to build on something so vulnerable—see a future when things are clouded with hurdles. But I also know that even on the days when I look out those windows and can’t see the mountains, they’re still there.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Hunter

“The way his eyes drifted slightly shut, the way his auburn hair fell in tousled waves over his forehead as though someone had disturbed a sunrise drew all moisture from my mouth and sent pools of it down much lower in my body.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Woodsman

“did you know that reading can reduce stress by up to sixty-eight percent? It works faster than listening to music or drinking a cup of hot tea.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“You could stand under an umbrella in the middle of the storm, but it wouldn’t stop you from feeling the rain.”
― Dr. Rebecca Sharp, Hunter

“Love without vulnerability is only frivolity.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Beholden

“The first time is when our life ends, and the second…is when people stop sharing our stories.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Villain

“You know, you don’t get to meet a whole lot of new people at my age, and if you do, they’re new old people. And old people, well, they just… up and die… and it’s terribly inconvenient.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“How can you love me when you don’t know…” She trailed off, shame washing over her. “The same way I can read even when the letters are jumbled. No matter what they end up being, the meaning won’t change for me.” I brought both her hands to my mouth and pressed my lips to her knuckles in a firm kiss. “Don’t make me love you in pieces, heroine. I want all of you—I’ll love all of you.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Hunter

“I wasn’t quite sure I adequately understood what it was like to be attracted to someone’s mind before I met Ranger, but now, I craved his conversation, his thoughts and his endearing facts just as much as I craved his touch.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“I felt like my brain was going to explode, trying to process every sensation at once. Was I blinking? Was I breathing? Was I alive? I couldn’t tell anything except in relation to him.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Judgment of Paris

“When you’re running from danger, you don’t stop to see how close it is to catching up. You go and go and go until you can’t go anymore.”
― Dr. Rebecca sharp, Hunter

“Since her car had been totaled in the accident, I’d offered Cindy mine to drive until she got a new one.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“To starting where we are, using what we’ve got—” “And doing what we can,”
― Rebecca Sharp, Betrayed

“His mouth answered with a fiery crash onto mine, branding the word yes to my lips.”
― Rebecca Sharp, The Woodsman

“I read your emails of support to Sydney. You said some very kind things.” Of course, he remembered everything. Darren huffed. “Well, of course I did. She’s incredible.” I brought the travel cup to my lips and took a careful sip of the hot latte. Ranger met my eyes over the lid and smiled. “I think so, too,” he declared. “It’s why I married her.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger

“This was what I wanted—what I needed, not promises or grand plans. I just needed him. All his flaws. All his strengths. All the ways he was there for me.”
― Rebecca Sharp, Gunner

“When I woke up this morning, I thought that making out with my hot nerdy landlord last night was my biggest problem. I guess the joke was on me. Now, I not only had a stalker, but the man protecting me was the same gorgeous nerd I couldn’t stop thinking about. How was I supposed to ignore my crush when I was relying on him twenty-four seven?”
― Rebecca Sharp, Ranger