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“I want you. So much, I can’t think. Can’t breathe. I can’t do anything but want you.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“Well, in the words of the great Olaf? Some people are worth melting for.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“There are far worse things in the world than falling in love, Aspen. No matter who it’s with.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“Just make sure you don’t go falling in love with me.” I scoff. “A little hard when I’m already in hate with you.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“Someone want to enlighten me, so I don’t get fucking lost in the middle of the mountains if I decide to take a nice stroll…and don’t end up throwing myself over a cliff?”
Sounds pretty fucking good right now. Actually scratch that and point me to the nearest death drop, thanks.”
― Follow the River
Sounds pretty fucking good right now. Actually scratch that and point me to the nearest death drop, thanks.”
― Follow the River
“At the risk of sounding completely fucking corny or like a total sap, I’m happiest when you’re happy, Kee. It’s always been that way, always will be.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“Superstitions are pretty much the only thing I take as seriously as hockey. And this could be my last season. Yours too. I just wanna come out on top.” Or bottom. If he’d prefer it that way.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“If you put half as much effort in trying to make us work as you are in trying to rip us apart right now, we could be fucking unstoppable", he mutters softly. “We’d be everything.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“I dare you to let me love you the way you deserve to be loved. Wholly. Completely. And out in the open, where the world can see.” My throat constricts around the words, but I continue to push them out anyway. “I love you. I’m so stupidly in love with you. And I dare you to love me too.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“How in the ever-loving fuck this guy gets me worked up with his presence alone is so far outside my IQ range, it’s laughable.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“My entire body feels shredded and torn to pieces, the slab of muscle that used to be my heart most of all. But it still stumbles in my chest, trying to find a rhythm to beat to in this new existence I’ve found myself in.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water
“You’re a dream,” I whisper, my nose brushing his. “You’re a dream in the midst of my worst nightmare.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water
“Oh, suck my dick. Fucking douche.” I smirk and lean into him, allowing our proximity to work in my favor. “Whip it out. I’ll drop to my knees right here and now. Best head you’ll ever get, guaranteed.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“Seeing him like this, knowing I can’t do shit to ease his pain, take the burden of his sorrow and put it on my shoulders instead. It’s what you do when you care about someone. When they mean the world to you and you would do just about anything for them.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“during that infamous birds and bees talk—saying if you can’t talk about it, you shouldn’t be having it.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“But hey, what doesn’t kill you just gives you seriously fucked-up coping mechanisms and one massive self-destruct button.”
― Caught Stealing
― Caught Stealing
“He’s every deadly sin wrapped in a single heartbreaking package.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“I literally think I hate you sometimes.” Rather than allowing me to deny him, he grabs the back of my neck and hauls me in and takes what he wants. He kisses me hard, the kind that curls my toes, before whispering against my lips. “I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“He’s losing it. No, losing it is the understatement of the century. What is more than wrecked? Destroyed? Obliterated? Fucking annihilated.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“All I want is to be the hand you reach for when things get difficult.”
― Never Will I Ever
― Never Will I Ever
“You have me. You will always have me. Until every star in the night sky burns out. And maybe even then.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“You and I both know that when you know, you just fucking know. It doesn’t matter if you’re sixteen, twenty-one, or thirty-something. When the person you’re meant to be with is tossed in your path, you grab them and hold on for dear life. In whatever capacity they’ll have you.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“Flirting With The Frienemy 101, sure to be an instant bestseller.”
― Never Will I Ever
― Never Will I Ever
“The words hit me hard enough, I wish I would’ve taken the bullets instead. Because this...hurts so much worse.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“But I was wrong, baby. I think I prefer the taste of your tears.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“You’re kidding, right? No one drives my baby.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“I’ve always been yours. I was yours even when I shouldn’t have been, Auden. I’m yours now, the moment we fucking met, and every single day in between.”
― Want You Still
― Want You Still





