Rae Lyse > Quotes

“You talk all this good shit when we home, but down on Earth, you won’t even tell a nigga that I can’t breathe without you. Why you won’t tell him that I’m the only one that’s ever been inside you? Why you won’t tell him I’m the beginning and end for you? Hm? Why you won’t tell him how good I feel?”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“She’s the beginning, middle, and end for me, but I’ve already told her enough simp shit to last a lifetime.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“It was her world, and he was the simp she had eating out of the palm of her hands.”
― Rae Lyse, Saving Sunflower

“It’s the first time I realize that men I hate and like give me something worse than hives. They give me deep, heart-pounding, gasping for air, fucked up panic attacks because I’m stupid enough to think I can fix everything that’s wrong with them.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“The real problem with us is that Phat’s a lot like alcohol and my problematic fingers. She’s a double shot of dopamine and she makes me do shit I shouldn’t.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“I loved you before you even knew what love was.” Love.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“I’m an Ason Williams Jr. type of girl and he didn’t explain that no matter how many little shots I swallow to chase his taste in a building full of strangers, I’d never find it.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“But most importantly, have fun. Life ain’t long enough to not have fun. Don’t you ever forget that.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“You know you never explained that I wouldn’t wanna go nowhere else when I found my way back home,” Ace says to him, laughing. “Nah... see, I left that part out ‘cause I ain’t wanna scare you, but I guess I could’ve warned you that no other place feels as good.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“That’s a good man right there. You ain’t got to move so fast all the time. Life move fast enough as it is.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“was wrong about little by little miracles. Today is a day for them, but they’re not little. They’re strong, like Coach Williams’ arms around Ace’s neck. They’re heavy, like my lips on his face. They’re as big as Ace’s heart that keeps holding onto Angie, and they’re loud, like the raspy breaths that cut through Ace and Coach Williams’ sobs.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Tasting him with sober tastebuds is what he must’ve been talking about when he said I tasted like summertime on the PCH because he tastes like the first real day of fall in Texas—when the weather is crisp and that nasty suffocating stickiness isn’t floating in the air.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“I can’t answer because I’m too far gone now—too in love with a man that’s impossible to hate. I’m supposed to keep our secrets close to my heart—even the painful ones he admits while diving inside me.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Brothers are as confusing as they are tricky creatures. Of all the things going on in our family, that’s the only other thing he took from my dirty hospital rant yesterday, but it felt good. People never listened hard enough to understand that the most simple shit you share is the most painful most of the time.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Sometimes I feel like he’s building me up to let me down, but Mama says men like him were for a lifetime. I guess she’s right because I feel it when he’s buried deep inside me and promising me forever in his own way.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“I nod, because I get it. On Planet Ace, I’m his team and he’s making sure I understand to fall in line like the good point guard he is.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Rehab?” Ace’s lips ease up, and he stuffs his hands in his pockets. “I told you I’d always fix it—even the hard stuff.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Lou was the ugliest dog Andre had ever seen.”
― Rae Lyse, Thirty (A Sun Series Bonus Story)

“Men who can walk through fire still need someone waiting on the other side though.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Marshall would say you finally made it to the end of your story. You overcame all the internal and external obstacles life’s thrown at you.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“around”
― Rae Lyse, For the Night

“Junior is the type of man that can walk through fire and won’t ever let you know he’s burned. You just realize he’s been scathed in other ways—in his words and eyes. He can take a lot and survive. In the end, he’s always the last one standing though.” “And why would you think Marshall wouldn’t want me to end up with a man like that?”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“I don’t think we’re making love anymore. I don’t know what to call it but whatever it is hurts too good. We’re locked in with her legs wrapped around my waist and my free hand scraping across her stomach like it’s been years since I felt it. It ain’t been shit but two weeks, but separations hit different in our world.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“Never get attached to material shit. It’s all temporary.”
― Rae Lyse, Thirty (A Sun Series Bonus Story)

“Her tone is exactly what home should taste like—sweet and satisfying. She doesn’t know how to kiss, but that makes it better. All she wants is to taste all of me and CeCe was right, just like Pops was. Addiction is so selfish that I can’t help but spoil her.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All

“The glass of Hennessy dances in my eyes under the moonlight while he raps to me about the laws that govern the planet he’s always on by himself: Planet Ace.”
― Rae Lyse, At the End of It All