Juliana Stone > Quotes

“Logan ran a hand through his hair as he tried to calm his racing heart. He wanted her on the most basic level that a man could want a woman, but it was so much more than that. It wasn’t just about sex and the need to be inside her so badly it hurt—it was all the other stuff to. The need to matter. The need to be selfless.
The need to love.”
― Juliana Stone, Offside

“Wrong always feels right.” He answered harshly. “It’s why hell is full of lost souls who weren’t strong enough.”
― Juliana Stone, King of the Damned

“That was before I learned my charmed life could bleed. That pain could become an every day kind of thing, and that the thought of happiness was just a word that didn't mean anything.”
― Juliana Stone, Boys Like You

“About how their song had never sounded so sweet.

And of the man who held her.

Of how it felt as if he was the home she’d never had.”
― Juliana Stone, Wrong Side of Hell

“I don't get it. What's an Angry Pirate?”
― Juliana Stone

“I loved you before we met. Before I ever laid eyes on you. I think I loved you before I was born. Is that possible? You’re the other half of my heart. The other half of my soul and I don’t want to lose you.” Her voice broke and she whispered, “Not again.” “Babe, you’re not gonna lose me.” Relief flooded him.”
― Juliana Stone, The Barker Triplets Boxed Set

“I've learned in my sixteen and a half years that there are things that will surprise you because you don't see them coming. They can be hard, painful things, and it's those ones that will live with you forever, bound to you soul in layers that grow thicker each year. Hopefully those layers will eventually dull the pain.”
― Juliana Stone, Boys Like You

“They had an audience. A furry, purring little thing who flicked a crooked tail back and forth while holding out a paw to be licked. A cat with one eye. An eye for porn.”
― Juliana Stone, Offside

“Malcolm had never really left us; it was me who had gone away.”
― Juliana Stone, Boys Like You

“It had been so long since I'd let anyone touch me, let alone hold me like this. Like we were already a part of each other. "Are you done waiting?" "Yeah," he said throatily. "I am.”
― Juliana Stone, Boys Like You

“But when you’re in love with someone, you’ll still do whatever it takes to get them into bed, but it’s because the next morning you want to wake up with them. You want to listen to her ideas, even the ones that are so fucking crazy you know they’ll never fly. You want to see her smile and hear her laugh. You want to know that you’re the reason for it and you hope that you get to do it day after day after day.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“That having a little bit of happiness, even for just a while, was better than a lifetime of loneliness.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“I love you Abigail Mathews, and I want to grow old with you. I want to watch you paint. I want to watch you sleep. I want to watch your belly grow large with our kids. I want a family. I want a dog. Hell, I’d even consider a cat, because I know you like the one in the office. For you, I’d do anything.” He shrugged. “That’s all I got. I want you, and I think that this could be our home.”
― Juliana Stone, Tucker

“You better do something about it right now because life is too short to waste time on the bullshit that’s stuck between the cracks. You need to fix those cracks and make them stronger, and you need to do it before it’s too late.”
― Juliana Stone, Collide

“Maverick Simon was Hollywood and Nashville, while she was just a mechanic in a small town in Maine. It almost sounded like some hokey country song.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“When you’re in lust, you taste and then you move on because eventually the lust fades and dies. But when you’re in love, it becomes a living, breathing thing that you want to hold on to. If you’re lucky it stays with you forever. If you’re not it haunts you.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“There are people that will never know or experience what I’ve had with my husband. They settle, you know?”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“love is love,”
― Juliana Stone, Some Kind of Normal

“He looked so damn sexy sitting there, playing a soft, haunting tune, dressed like a lumberjack (with the shoulders to go with) and all that dark wavy hair and the five o’clock shadow.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“Love doesn’t die.” Brett met her gaze. “Sometimes it hides. Sometimes it changes. But real love is always there, and I believe it can even transcend death.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“He was the river. And boy, I was glad that I jumped.”
― Juliana Stone, Some Kind of Normal

“And he thought he heard her whisper, just before she shattered beneath him, I love you.”
― Juliana Stone, The Barker Triplets Boxed Set

“He wanted her back at his place. In his bed. He wanted her trembling in his arms while he nuzzled that spot. His spot.”
― Juliana Stone, The Barker Triplets Boxed Set

“and tossed his crumpled invitation in front of him. He used his index finger to push the offending invite a couple inches away and glared at”
― Juliana Stone, Tucker

“Tucker Simon hadn’t been to a wedding in five years and damned if he was going to this one alone.”
― Juliana Stone, Tucker

“Sweetie, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that no broken heart ever happened from lack of trying.”

Abby screwed up her nose. “What the hell does that mean?”

“It means that he might break your heart…but it also means that you might be the one to fix his.”
― Juliana Stone, Tucker

“This might sound corny, but I believe that all things happen for a reason. Even the awful things. And when we’re at our lowest, faith is what gets us through. Faith can be whatever version of God you believe in, or it can be as simple as the belief that all of us are connected.”
― Juliana Stone, Maverick

“Life is life. It’s not cut-and-dried. It’s not clean edges and perfect circles. It’s imperfect and lovely and heartbreaking and tragic. It’s full of laughter and tears and pain and longing. The secret to living life the way God intended is for each and every one of us never to take for granted this gift we’ve been given.”
― Juliana Stone, The Family Simon Boxed Set

“moment Abby knew. It wasn’t just jealousy that she’d felt. It was hurt. It was gut-wrenching hurt. How crazy was that? Over the course of the last year, this man had come to mean so much to her, and not only did he not know, she was pretty sure that if he”
― Juliana Stone, Tucker

“A man should help his fellow man when he can. It's good for the soul. Sometimes it was the only thing that soothed my pain.”
― Juliana Stone, You Make Me Weak