J.J. Arias > Quotes

“What a tiny life we’d live if we fashioned ourselves to the comforts of others.”
― J.J. Arias, Destination You

“I swear to love you always. To back you up even when you're wrong. To make you laugh when you realize you've built that IKEA bookshelf all backwards. To indulge every whim and passion. And to always be your number one fan. Until death do us part, I will stand by your side.”
― J.J. Arias, Guava Flavored Lies

“I can’t even remember a time I didn’t love you. This feeling is so big, it’s gone back in time and colored my memories.”
― J.J. Arias, Destination You

“I thought you wanted your mother to like me,” she said, running her fingers lightly through Tracy’s hair. “I do,” she insisted. “I guess I didn’t anticipate you two would be bosom buddies,” she admitted, her eyes glued to Evelyn’s full lips. “Are you very territorial over my bosom?” she teased before making a show of biting down on her own bottom lip.”
― J.J. Arias, New Day Rising

“Don’t make this harder than it already is, she thought as she rushed toward the elevator. I can only resist you for so long.”
― J.J. Arias, Crossing the Line

“See? It’s natural. We’re programed to dig older women in positions of authority. Also, villains.”
― J.J. Arias, Crossing the Line

“You brought me back to life when I hadn’t realized I was just existing from one day to the next. You brought me color when I had no idea I was living in black and white.”
― J.J. Arias, Sunset Fallen

“What more was there left to say between them other than everything?”
― J.J. Arias, Crossing the Line

“The right words felt both too big and too small.”
― J.J. Arias, Breakup Buddies

“Unexpected things can be good if you’re not so narrow minded. If you don’t turn things down before giving them a chance.”
― J.J. Arias, Guava Flavored Lies

“As soon as they saw each other, Raquel smiled a broad, conquering smile. She smiled with her eyes, with her teeth, with her lips. She was light and warmth. She was a long, deep, lung-burning breath after seven weeks of shallow pants. She was a song and art and laughter and Taylor felt her in every single nerve ending, every fiber, every cell of her body.”
― J.J. Arias, Destination You

“All she’d wanted was to stop the gnawing and irrepressible ache of loving someone who didn’t love her back.”
― J.J. Arias, Like First Love, Again

“I’m surprised you don’t have some hidden tat somewhere.” (...)
“One simply does not put a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.”
― J.J. Arias, Relinquishing Control

“God, it smells incredible out here.”
Marissa’s velvety voice was an arm around Slade’s waist — soft lips brushing against the back of her neck.”
― J.J. Arias, Tasting Temptation

“Grief can warp and break so many precious things. Sometimes the only thing we can think of doing is running away from it; hiding from it. Sitting still forces you to process whether you’re ready to do it or not.”
― J.J. Arias, Destination You

“What we overcome shapes who we become.” Natalia jutted her perfect chin in the air. “Those who don’t break, thrive.”
― J.J. Arias, Fighting for Control

“Be honest, you’re going to miss me,” Taylor said before she could stop herself.
Raquel locked her in her fractured honey gaze, the burned caramel and copper tones dancing like ancient witches in a primeval moonlit forest. “I will,” she said so softly that her raspy voice was barely intelligible.”
― J.J. Arias, Destination You

“Relationships are chaos and risk by definition. I'm sure you know that well. We can never truly know another person's thoughts and intentions with a hundred percent certainty. When we hand over our heart and say please don't break it, we do it with no guarantee that the person we've entrusted it to won't be negligent or cruel or grow bored. Anything that comes with such a loss of control is inherently terrifying. Not to mention it's hard to hand it over once it's mistreated.”
― J.J. Arias, The Single Matchmaker

“The monsters in your head are never honest. They’re always worse than the ones out here”
― J.J. Arias, Fighting for Control

“Friends, I know,” Slade said before Marissa could. “We’re gay ladies, right?” She joked to do something with all of the energy building to a fever pitch inside of her. “Figuring out how to be friends with someone we’ve slept with is like coded into our DNA.”
― J.J. Arias, Tasting Temptation

“Hey, honey! What’s this box on the desk?”
― J.J. Arias, Crossing the Line

“I wanted to offer you my most authentic self. Turns out, I had to find her before I could bring her to you.”
― J.J. Arias, The Love Conspiracy

“You’re not at fault for trusting a person you love. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what you’re supposed to do. What some of us spend years in therapy learning how to do.”
― J.J. Arias, The Love Conspiracy

“I’ve spent so long looking for adventure that I didn’t realize life itself is the greatest unknown. It has so many different stages and impossible to predict turns, and that’s what I want to experience with you. I want to take every leap with you. Every plunge.”
― J.J. Arias, Destination You

“I don't care who you love. If I have taught you anything, it is that life is fleeting and one of the only true joys is the love and family we find in a soulmate. How could you believe that something as insignificant as gender could invalidate that?”
― J.J. Arias, The Single Matchmaker