Georgia Cates > Quotes

“..you don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Baby, you've fucked my mind without touching my body.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Nothing speaks louder than your heart. Listen to what it's telling you.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Some day you’ll call me the one that got away.” -Jessie from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, Going Under

“The best way to get over somebody is to get under someone else”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“And how old are you, Miss Beckett?”
“Seventeen.”
“What!” There is no way she’s seventeen. I inspect her face, studying it intently, but don’t know what it is I hope to find. Laugh lines maybe?
She watches my face. “Is my age a problem for you?”
“Hell, yeah, seventeen is a problem.” I throw my napkin on the table. All of this has been a waste. “Forget it all. This whole thing is off.”
“I don’t act seventeen. I’m very mature for my age.”
“No way. You’re not even old enough to be drinking that wine.” I lean in and whisper so no one will overhear. “I’m almost twice your age.”
“I don’t mind. I have daddy issues.” She breaks into a huge grin and I hear a girlish giggle. That’s when I realize she’s fucking with me and has the ability to lie with a straight face. I’ll have to remember that for future reference.
I’m not amused. “I see I have a comedienne on my hands.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“I knew you were the next one the second I laid my eyes on you singing in that club, but you can never imagine my surprise when I realized that you weren't just the next one—you were the last one”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“You might as well be the devil.”
“Baby, you’re the one holding the apple.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“I didn't love you the day I met you, or even a month later. But somewhere between hello and the goodbye I'm unable to bear”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“If this is the real you, whoever told you to be yourself couldn’t have given you worse advice.” - Claire from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, Going Under

“Don’t leave. I want you to be with me.”
“You’ll have your family.”
I swallow before I say the words that will change this relationship forever. “You’re the one I need.”
“But that would mean meeting your family.”
It does, and I’m okay with that if it means she’s by my side. “I don’t care. I need you to be with me.”
She smiles and cradles my face with her hands. “Of course. I’ll come if it’s what you want, but this is going to change everything.”
“I know, but it’s what I want.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“I’m sorry for all the secrecy, for making you feel like you weren’t important enough to know the real me. But I’m most sorry because I have fucked you – I don’t know how many times – and never made love to you.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“It's you, Jack Henry. It will always be you in every song I sing.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“Love is delicate as glass; once broken it can be fixed, but there will always be cracks.”
― Georgia Cates, Shallow

“Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.”
― Georgia Cates, Shallow

“I love her too much to let her leave and I need to tell her right this minute.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Laurelyn, I once asked you to be mine for three months. Now, I’m asking you to be mine forever.” She opens her mouth to speak and I place my fingers to her lips. “But I don’t want your answer right now because you’re not ready to say yes. You still need time to spread your wings and fly. I love you with all my heart and I want you to experience everything this life has to offer you because it won’t wait. But I will. I’ll wait for you as long as it takes, and you can come to me after you ‘ve had enough of this life…when you’re ready to spend forever with me.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“I can not believe you, Jack Henry!" Mum picks up her purse to smack me several good times. Hard. She's the only mother I know who would use her handbag to beat her thirty-year-old son.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“I don't regret you for a second. You're my favorite complication and you always will be.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“She has bewitched me. And I want her. She’s the one.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Every song I write from here on out will be about Jack Henry. That's how our tale will go on and on forever—through my music. He will always be every song I sing”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“You might score some touchdowns on the football field, but you can forget about getting into Claire’s end zone”. -Payton from Going Under”
― Georgia Cates, Going Under

“Are you missing your filter, or is it an Aussie thing to blurt out every inappropriate thought you have?”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“Do you suffer from restless lip syndrome because they make medication for that?” -Jessie from Going Under.”
― Georgia Cates, Going Under

“I hear her soft, sweet voice against my ear and feel her trembling in my arms.
“Don’t leave,” she whispers.
I feel the tears when they come and I bury my face in her hair. “Don’t let me leave without you.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“His mouth is so close to mine, I feel his warm breath on my lips. “Right now, all I’m thinking about is how I’m going to get you in my bed so I can show you all the ways I can make you come.”
Umm … yes, please and thank you.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“That’s who I am to you from now on. No more Lachlan. No more pretending”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain

“You're everything I never knew I wanted. Every time I picture my future, it's always your face I see…with some little people who look like us.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Surrender

“We’ve shared countless kisses. They were almost always heated and demanding, but this one is entirely different. It tells me things he can’t or won’t say because it goes against everything he intends for our relationship.”
― Georgia Cates, Beauty from Pain