Emma Creed > Quotes

“I’m happy here, Dan. Really happy,” I tell him for the hundredth time. “No, Savannah, you just weren’t happy at home. You came here to run away from all the shit you discovered, and you just don’t feel ready to face up to it yet. I get that, which is why I think traveling would be good for us. Maybe you were right, maybe I do take life and my career too seriously.”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits

“Not everyone gets their happy ever after, but the time we had before the world turned gray, was the closest I ever got.”
― Emma Creed, No Limits

“You want the truth? The real fuckin’ truth?” He speaks tightly against my skin and I feel his heart beating out of his chest against mine. “I’m too scared to love you.” His words shock me as he tightens his fingers. “I’m too scared to keep you. Hell, I'm even too scared to be around ya because bad shit happens to the people that I love.”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits

“I want you, here with me. I want you to be mine. I wanna make ya smile the way Dalton and Wade do, and I want us to fill this house with beautiful, sassy, stubborn kids.”
― Emma Creed, No Limits

“I ignore the fact that all he says is true. Even if I did want a woman, I can’t imagine it’d be easy to find one prepared to make a life with a man who works fourteen hours a day. And if by some miracle I did, she sure as shit wouldn’t accept the things I’m willing to do to protect this place.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“I was a Dirty Soul slut.” She laughs as if what she’s telling me is no big deal.”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“Because I knew that if I did, I’d never have been able to look you in the eyes again. And I’d rather have slept with the devil on my doorstep than give up the hope of ever having you.”
― Emma Creed, No Limits

“I get why you fight so hard for this. It’s heaven on earth. I didn’t see that when I first came here, but I see it now.”
― Emma Creed, No Limits

“man who's got shit to lose rather than one with a vendetta. I know you’re strugglin’—” “You got no idea.” I shove past him and get the hell away from him and this damn yard before I make another person dead.”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits

“away from the lifestyle of the bikers… but those who live it, and have to defend it, know differently. The purest of man can become an outlaw if he finds something worth fighting for.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“Copper Ridge taught me a lot this summer. I learned how to ride, I learned to find beauty in such simple things, and I learned that love really fucking hurts.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“Carsons don’t make threats,” I yell back at him.”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“That’s up to you. See, I know you had something to do with the robbery that happened here last night. And for that, you’re gonna be punished. How bad that punishment is will depend on how fast you tell us how we’re gonna get our cattle back.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“she looks the blood-beaten bastard right in his eyes as she points the rifle at his head. “Wrong old lady, mother fucker.” Her hands ain’t shaking anymore and she don’t hesitate in pulling the trigger, splattering his brains all over her yard. Silence takes over the ringing in our ears”
― Emma Creed, Testing Limits

“Well, ain’t that what Danny Boy’s offerin’ ya?” He cocks his head to one side, proving that word spreads fast around here. “Yeah, that’s what he’s offering, and that's how I know that he’s not the guy for me.” Cole shakes his head in confusion. “The man I want wouldn’t have to offer me anything. He could be broke and on his knees. He could have a million fucked-up thoughts in his head”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“A cowboy kiss isn’t gonna fix this,” I warn him when he eventually pulls away. “That wasn’t a cowboy kiss, darlin’. That was a goodbye kiss.” He starts stepping backward toward his truck. “You're right, you shouldn’t have to leave if you're happy here. I’ll go.”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“She. Is. Off. Fucking. Limits,” I make my point abundantly clear for him. “You, or any of the others, so much as look at her with an intention, and I swear to whatever you believe in, I’ll send you to it’s hell.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“I told you, if I have you, I won’t let you leave,” I warn her again, trying to hold it all together when all I wanna do is give in.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“You know what? I’m done trying to figure this shit show out. The sooner I leave for home, the better.” Her chair scrapes the floor before she strops out, and I hate how much those words hurt. “Jeez, she really is a bitch, ain’t she? Can you pass the salt?” Cole looks up to Wade, who, I guess, gives up trying to figure him out and slides it over with a hard shove.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“A man does crazy shit when he’s in love. You're about to see that for yourself.”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits

“Finn, are ya tellin’ me that Teresa Carson was a fuckin’ club whore?” I can barely believe what I’m hearing.”
― Emma Creed, Testing Limits

“I’d rather ya hate me than love me. It’s safer that way. Red.”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“You gotta start thinkin’ more like”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits

“Hell, if you fuck it up, the whole votin’ system’s rigged anyway.” I dust off his jacket and pat his cheek. “This stupid election campaign is faker than Cora’s tits were.” “Cole! That was my mom, remember?” Maisie looks at me in shock.”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“I’d thought that would be the one thing you’d thank me for.” Mom chuckles to herself. “She was gonna drain your father of everything. When I left here, I promised myself that your father would be the last person who ever screwed me over. I thought Cora had screwed me over.” She shrugs. I watch all the color drain from Garrett’s face. “People thought I did that. I could have gone to jail. For life.”
― Emma Creed, Pushing Limits

“George Walker has been a dead man walking since the day we found out he knocked up, and killed, our sister. The fact I’m head over spurs in love with his daughter is the whole reason I had to give her up. I had lifelong happiness right in the palm of my hand, and I had to fuckin’ crush it.”
― Emma Creed, Breaking Limits

“we don’t need this to be investigated, we need it to be dealt with in a way that ensures it can never happen again.” “So, you're suggesting outlaw justice.” He laughs to himself. I know Savannah’s father is a lawyer, he believes in the justice system.”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits

“Chicks dig a grieving man, darlin’,” He shrugs unapologetically, then dropping the cheeky grin from his face, he turns serious.”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“A Mayor who needs three hot guys to do his dirty work, turning up to church on a Sunday, all seems a little corrupt to me.” “Darlin’, this whole town’s corrupt.” Garrett lets out a deep-throated laugh, and the half smile”
― Emma Creed, Off Limits

“Sounds like a plan.” He smiles back at me before we head inside.”
― Emma Creed, Reaching Limits