Tara Brown > Quotes

“He's normal and squeaky and responsible. Shell would call him Vanilla. I like Vanilla. You know what you're getting into with it. You can add anything to it. It doesn’t spank you and make you like it.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“I needed to see you." He repeats himself.
I smile. I like that word, need. It's not want. He had no choice because it was a need to see me. I like that.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“I will always be that guy's girl. I've made him so big in my mind that I can't even move around in there. It's not that I can even be with him. I just won't ever be without him. I'll never be whole without him.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“I don't need to be saved. I'm the hero of my own story.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“You are so lucky to have each other. I've never actually seen a man love a woman as much as he loves you, Sarah. I love your father and he loves me. We have survived a lot of things, but I know in my heart of hearts our love is not as intense as yours.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“He kissed my belly, “Just think. All the love that we have for each other, we put it in this safe place here.” He kissed my belly again.”
― Tara Brown, My Side

“I grip him. "Don’t leave me."
He kisses my lips, "Never again. This isn’t me leaving you. This is me choosing you." He throws my words back at me.
He kisses me once more and then pushes off. He leaves and doesn’t look back. I fight the urge to run after him.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.”
― Tara Brown

“What are you doing?" He asks looking intimidating.
I shrug, "I want pancakes."
"I'll make you pancakes."
I laugh and turn around to walk backwards, "I don’t want your pancakes. I want normal pancakes. Not head game pancakes. Not maybe I'll make you happy or maybe I'll scare the shit out of you pancakes. You know?”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“Sometimes the scariest things in life aren’t the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn’t want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses.”
― Tara Brown

“Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs.”
― Tara Brown

“I watched you fall in love with me. I saw the smile cross your lips when it happened. I remember that day. I was the first day I knew I had no heart.”
― Tara brown, Vengeance

“They don’t really know him, not the dark and scary parts, but then again they don’t know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness. Only he embraces the darkness inside of me and turns it into love and light.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“He stops kissing, but his lips stay touching mine, lightly, like a feather would. "I'm bad for you, Sarah. I won't ever be the gentleman you need."
"Maybe I don’t want gentle."
He pulls something from his dress pants and presses it into my hand. "And that is my fault.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“I laugh nervously and jerk my hand free, "I want the you that tilts his head back and eats the snow. I want the you that holds me and snuggles into me. I want him, but you hardly ever show him to me. I see a glimpse of him and then it's you that’s back." I point disappointedly. "I want the sweet guy who puts his hand out for me."
His eyes fight something. His lips tighten, "He's in here too. I think there are a few of us.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible.
I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“And get some self-esteem. What the fuck is that? It’s so annoying to see a pretty girl see herself as not worthy. You know what it makes us guys think you aren’t worthy? We see you how you see you. You’re pretty and funny and smart. Stop being such a douche-canoe.”
― Tara Brown, My Side

“How is he so rich and hot and normal?"
I shake my head, "He's rich and hot, but he's not normal. I see a sickness in his eyes. They're broken like mine. Like a mirror with cracks in it but none of the glass has fallen out of the frame.”
― Tara Brown

“The world in which we live is held together by love.
The world in which we love is held together by fate.
The world in which we die is of our own making.
Death comes from hatred and man is the only creature who hates, stronger than he loves.”
― Tara Brown

“They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“He steps forward and kisses my forehead. His breath is soft, devastating warmth on my face. He turns and leaves. He chooses survival over me. It's no different than what I have done. We are both just trying so hard to survive me.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“If I didn’t take selfies, my friends wouldn’t even know what I look like.”
― Tara Brown, White Girl Problems

“His eyes were locked on me. We looked like Bambi and Faline, twitterpated, unable to be around normal people, at least I did.”
― Tara Brown, Cursed

“...The hurt in you and the hurt in me makes us a bad combination. Two hurt and broken things can't ever make a whole thing.”
― Tara Brown, Born to Fight

“We drive in silence until I need an answer, "What did he say to you at the elevator?" I look straight ahead when I ask.
"He thanked me for being there for you, even as a boy, when he could not protect you himself. He told me that I had his permission to love you.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“I'm breathing out of my mouth and thinking things I have only seen on Netflix in the foreign-movie section.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely

“The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I can't help but laugh inside at how I still felt safer leaving through the backdoor, even though there is no front or back. There are only doors. They don't go anywhere anymore, because there is no direction.

Nothing goes anywhere.”
― Tara Brown, Born

“I still can't believe you kicked me."
"I didn’t want to. I needed to."
I glance at him as we leave the dorms, "Keep telling yourself that."
He grins his cocky, shitty grin, "Keep telling yourself the paddle doesn’t turn you on."
I snort and hate that he knows so much about me. My cheeks are on fire just hearing the word paddle.”
― Tara Brown, The Lonely