Molly O'Keefe > Quotes

“I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“We were editors of our own selves, revealing only what we wanted to show. Being only what served us best.
Trust was an enormous act of faith.
And faith…God, faith was hard.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“From the pocket of her robe she pulled out the ring he’d given her, she put it over her finger, sliding it back and forth over her knuckle.
“Can I tell you something?” Dad asked.
“Yes. Please.”
“Any promise you make, whether it’s to your school, or your family, or to Billy, half of the promise is commitment and the other half, is faith. Faith that your commitment is enough. There’s no answer, honey. None.”
She stared down at her ring, his words like bells ringing in her head.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Naughty & Nice: Room at the Inn / All I Want for Christmas is You / One Perfect Christmas

“Love is a knife that really only cuts one way, and that's deep.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“Love was a choice and we made it everyday.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“He carried himself like a guy who lived in his whole body. Like every molecule was under his control. I lived in exactly 12% of my body. I wasn’t even sure what my hair was doing.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Bad Neighbor

“I loved books. Loved reading. It not only gave me an escape from my own world, but opened a door into other worlds. It allowed me, at the beginning of my marriage, to suffer with some grace. As long as I had another world to go to, what did I care about how small and strange and terrifying my own life had gotten?”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one.
She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Indecent Proposal

“She was saying words she didn’t totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“Listen to me,” he said. “I will never hurt you or touch you. I won’t put my hands on you unless you ask me. Beg me.” I gasped and fell back against the door, strength leaving my legs. “And I want you to beg me,” he said, still closer. “And I think someday you will.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Wait for It

“She was scared, but she was trying; in order to get what she wanted she was pushing past her own bullshit fears and being brave. In her voice, he could hear every dark and forbidden thing she craved. And he wanted to give it to her. Everything she wanted and the things she didn’t know to want, yet.
How far would she go?
She wanted dark? He had all the dark. All of it. And he’d show her every midnight corner of it.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“I wanted to fuck her and protect her all at the same time. I wanted to keep her and push her away. I was everything in opposites, and I felt torn apart by her.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“This is where I lived – she lived there, too. I could see it in her face. Her eyes. The way she carried herself.
In the place between what we wanted and what we had.
And this is where all the pain lived.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Bad Neighbor

“That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman’s freedom all came down to money.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“It’s a seduction, Annie. It’s about want. Not need.”
“You’ve already seduced me,” she whispered. “All I want is you.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“You’re wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?”
“I want to be with you.”
The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath.
The brittle silence told me I’d done something I couldn’t ever undo. I’d changed everything.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“It wasn’t sex. It wasn’t just sex. It was her.
I wanted her and I wanted the honor of being wanted by her.
And fuck if I hadn’t made my whole life about getting what I wanted.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Wait for It

“You like to watch?” The girl asked. “Or do you want to join us?”
“I…uh…” Oh, this wasn’t hot anymore. This was just awkward, and I was so totally out of place with my flannel shirt and my socks and my hair back in a bun.
I was wearing fucking glasses. Who wears glasses to your neighbor’s orgy?”
― Molly O'Keefe, Bad Neighbor

“You changed me, baby,” I told her, stroking her cheek. “I barely recognize who I was before you came into my life. And I don’t…I don’t want to go back to being that way.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“Ronan would keep my body safe and incinerate my heart. Trusting him would be my worst mistake.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Untamed

“I’ve never been wild.”
“You want to be, don’t you? That’s why you’re calling me.?”
“Yeah, I guess…maybe…”
“Yes or no. There’s no one else here to hear you and I ain’t judging.”
“Yes. Yes, I’d like to be wild.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“You think if we fuck each other hard enough it will go away? … We’ll get it out of our systems?”
“That has to work,” she said. “It has to.”
Dylan pushed back her hair, holding her face in his hard hands. He was worlds too rough. Worlds too wrong. But he was going to take what she was offering. “You really are innocent, aren’t you?”
She shook her head and he could feel her staring in her skin. Her eyes were frantic on his.
“If we do this right, it’s only going to get worse.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Everything I Left Unsaid

“The world issued an open invitation to humanity to fail itself. To be selfish and small. Mean, even evil at times.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Never Been Kissed

“I want to be falling in love with you for the rest of my life.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Bad Neighbor

“Love was a yeti”
― Molly O'Keefe, Indecent Proposal

“She was the miracle I was trying to hold on to.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Wait for It

“I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.”
― Molly O'Keefe, The Truth About Him

“I’m the fucking luckiest man on the planet tonight. The only thing I’m going to do is help you come.”
― molly o'keefe