Becca Ritchie > Quotes

“Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart”
― Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“So long as I may be living, I live with you.”
― Becca Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“I think that’s the thing about friends who aren’t quick to let others in.
When they do give you their friendship, it means something more.” --Conner”
― Becca Ritchie, Kiss the Sky

“When I was seventeen you said you wanted to perform an autopsy on me, to crack open my ribcage and squeeze my heart until it burst between your fingers.” What is that—if not flirting? She lifts her head off a pillow to near me, propping her elbows on the mattress. “That was me hating you, Richard. I dreamed of your death.” “You dreamed of clutching my heart,” I rebut. “Of killing you,” she emphasizes. I lean closer to her, our eyes locking. “Vous m’aimiez.” You loved me.”
― Becca Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“I flicked over his rook, his bishop, and protected my queen.
I mouth, Don't fuck with with me. These five people mean more to me than words can express. I've never once felt like I had a real family.
But with them-I know I do.”
― Becca Ritchie, Kiss the Sky

“Your worth isn’t dictated by the number of friends you have. You can have zero friends and still be the most amazing, spectacular person in the whole galaxy.”
― Becca Ritchie, Some Kind of Perfect

“I want to love Lo without people telling me that our love is too much.”
― Becca Ritchie, Ricochet

“I hate that I had to pull out my wallet and buy respect.”
― Becca Ritchie, Addicted to You

“Forever is not nearly long enough,”
― Becca Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“Our I love yous encompass years of heartache, of hurt, of laughter and pain. And every time we say the words, I feel the rush of our childhood. I couldn't imagine ever losing that.”
― Becca Ritchie, Ricochet

“I'd always let him catch me.”
― Becca Ritchie, Ricochet

“Dreams are true while they last,’” he recites in a whisper, “‘and do we not live in dreams?”
― Becca Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“Rose-"Then you'll need to buy me some barf bags."
Conner-"do you always vomit on guys you like or just me?"
Rose-" the more you fish for compliments the more I want to puke on you".
Conner- "So it is just me then ".”
― Becca Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

“If you hurt her, I’ll personally snip off your balls and hang them on the Christmas tree this year.”
― Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“I explode. “I FUCKING LOVE HER!” I scream, my heart thrashing in my ribs.
His mouth falls, his brows furrowing in confusion the longer he scrutinizes my features. I feel like he’s clawing at my insides for answers.
Here they are. “I fell in fucking love with her. It hurt to be away from Daisy. It hurt to watch her with other guys. Everything fucking hurt, and I didn’t want to live with that pain anymore. I fucking couldn’t.” I inhale deeply. “I can’t tell you when it became unbearable, but it did”
― Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“I try to imagine what type of girl Connor would seek, but she seems unfathomable--like a hazy picture with only her brain showing.”
― Becca Ritchie, Addicted to You

“'Dad' she huffs.
'Kinney Hale,' he refutes, "I banished ghosts from this house millenniums ago. They're all afraid of me.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“The Cobalt Empire is the largest, known for their regal poise, intellectual prowess, and fierce commitment to one another. Each Cobalt is prideful and passionately unique but when push comes to shove.

They'll band together like an army of one.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“Of course,” Connor replies. “Your daughter is already more articulate than you are, so really, I like Sulli more than I like you.”
Connor sips his coffee again like he just professed the weather: sunny with a side of fuck you. Ryke flips him off. The more direct approach to a fuck you.”
― Becca Ritchie, Some Kind of Perfect

“Luna stares at each of us, even Farrow, like she's mentally grouping us together as the Hale family. A band of fucking weirdos”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“Rose Calloway Cobalt has always been a series of contradictions.”
― Becca Ritchie, Some Kind of Perfect

“I don’t ever, ever want to choose Lily over Daisy. Just because Lily cries harder. Just because Lily screams louder. It doesn’t mean that Daisy’s pain isn’t more.”
― Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower

“He knew the only way for me to truly fight is if I have something to lose.”
― Becca Ritchie, Addicted to You

“Maximoff lowers his voice. 'The shade is called My Lips Against Your Lips, and it's not coming off. Stop rubbing and let's form a plan.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“I love having him in my mouth, but even more than that, I'm hooked by the way he's staring deeply at me. Like I'm a fantasy. Like I'm something made of heaven and stars that he's dreamt of- and I never thought to ask what a celebrity who could have anyone in the fucking world fantasizes about.

And I wonder how long it's been me.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“Let's go kick some ass.
Civilly.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“Uncle Lo says that it's not a party until there's salsa. It's a party rule, right?' She looks to Jane.
'Well...' Jane muses the idea for too long.
I cut in, 'My dad could also eat five hot sauce packets for brunch and nothing else.'

'Famous ones,' Farrow calls out and our heads turn to him. 'There's no salsa rule for parties. Not normal.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“How breathtaking dreams are when you meet them.”
― Becca Ritchie, Some Kind of Perfect

“Plus, if we invited Luna, we'd have to invite Jane's two brothers, Eliot Cobalt and Tom Cobalt. Which would probably end with me calling the fire department or our on-call doctor.”
― Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

“No restraints. One-hundred-and-fifty miles per hour. You and me, sweetheart.”
― Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower