Nia Forrester > Quotes

“He had never thought in his wildest imagination of marriage as an option for
him. Never believed there was a woman out there that would make him sign up for that particular brand of madness. And, in the abstract at least, it still sounded like madness but this wasn’t about marriage, it was about Riley. With her, he knew that boyfriend-girlfriend shit wasn’t going to be enough. He had to have her locked down.”
― Nia Forrester, Commitment

“Brendan's not the guy you use to figure your shit out, Brendan's the guy you hope you get once you have figured your shit out.”
― Nia Forrester, Unsuitable Men

“I had lunch with my brothers,” Mark said, his face serious. “While you were still asleep. They told me. About Corey and that stupid set-up you agreed to where you’d pretend not to be my wife . . .”
“I never agreed to pretend not to be your wife,” Dylan said.
Mark’s face grew serious then. “That’s what it amounted to in the end though, didn’t it? You pulled away from me in exchange for me getting . . . what?”
“Your career back,” Dylan said. “Your life.”
“Dylan, you’re my life. You.”
― Nia Forrester, The Seduction of Dylan Acosta

“You met Sheryl. She stays bent out of shape. That's her resting state--bent-out-of-shape, pissed-off and all-kinds-of-crazy. Pick any one of those. That's Sheryl on a good day.”
― Nia Forrester, Afterburn

“Between the ugly truth and beautiful lies, I'll take the truth every time.”
― Nia Forrester, The Fall

“Pussy power is a concept, Steven. Not just a casual use of coarse language. It doesn’t work if you substitute it with ‘vagina’. Trust me on this.”
― Nia Forrester, The Fall

“No, Robyn was the one who needed to fly. And his challenge, his torture, would be always remembering to let her do it.”
― Nia Forrester, Afterburn

“My mother’s dying. And I’m out here tryin’ to live up to something bigger than myself, build for myself … for you, for us … something that’s even half-assed comparable to what my father built for me. And you wanna run? Now? When I need you the most? Zee,” His voice broke. “I can’t … I can’t be in the foxhole fightin’ a war with someone who won’t fight right along with me. Who won’t fight for me.”
― Nia Forrester, Rhyme & Reason

“all senses of the word, that was the way Jay saw her—something less than a grown woman, his home-girl, his lover, his best friend; holding it down, and putting it down. His girl.”
― Nia Forrester, Mother

“A good man takes care of his woman,’ Ibrahim continued. ‘Not just emotionally, spiritually, materially …. But physically as well. He makes sure she gets what she needs, including giving her pleasure with his body and taking pleasure from hers.”
― Nia Forrester, Snowflake

“Some compromises aren’t worth making though,” Lena said. She had completely set her meal aside now, and was giving Trisha her full attention. “Some compromises you make, you’ll lose your self-respect.”
― Nia Forrester, Acceptable Losses

“All I know is... I experience life in words. - Malcolm T. Mitchell”
― Nia Forrester, The Fall

“I always wanted to be … juicy,” Ivy said almost dreamily. “You know, like the kind of juicy where dudes make vulgar comments when you walk by on the street.”
― Nia Forrester, Ivy's League

“He’s like that,” Mrs. Thomas said, closing the box with the last of the ornaments. “Still. He takes relationships seriously. And sometimes takes on the weight of burdens, and of blame that is not his to bear.”
― Nia Forrester, Acceptable Losses

“Falling in love is the easy part,
Loving is hard”
― Nia Forrester, Acceptable Losses

“But the heart wanted what it wanted.”
― Nia Forrester, The Come Up

“Sometimes, in life, we must make our family,” Eva says. “Not just by … making our family …” She looks down at my belly. “But by making our family. You understand?” I shake my head. “By choosing along the way the people we want to keep close. Picking them off life’s menu. À la carte,” she says smiling.”
― Nia Forrester, À la Carte: The Complete ‘Coffee Date’ Novellas

“First up, DC ain’t so chocolate no more, man.”
― Nia Forrester, The Art of Endings

“He said you could only build a strong Black nation through a strong Black family. And that poverty fractured the family and could kill the human spirit.”
― Nia Forrester, Snowflake

“Some people might say it was important to respect ‘authority’ but for Black men in particular, that wasn’t always true. People who had authority were not always worthy of respect. But if you didn’t respect those who had power over you—or do a damn good job of faking it—it could mean your ass.”
― Nia Forrester, Afterburn

“What I felt was … my spirit draw closer to her spirit. Like she had something I didn’t have, and that I needed. I felt I might have something that drew her spirit. Something that she needed.”
― Nia Forrester, Snowflake

“Eli,” she said, making sure they had unbroken eye contact. “It’s time to man up, or back off.”
― Nia Forrester, Ivy's League

“Theirs was a relationship not of conflict, but a comfortable joust-and-parry.”
― Nia Forrester, Afterwards

“Darren was still contemplating kicking the old man’s ass, but one thing he was good at was considering his end-game. He always considered how things would play out before he made a move. Most people lived in the moment, he lived ten steps ahead.”
― Nia Forrester, The Art of Endings

“Because real life is unpredictable enough,” Sam said, her eyes serious. “It’s calming to read something that tells you that even if it’s rough going, you’ll get your happily-ever-after in the end.”
― Nia Forrester, The Makeover: A Modern Love Story

“Their negligence is only underscored when the Medical Examiner’s Office spokesperson makes the unfortunate comment that, “sex workers come in all stripes these days.”
― Nia Forrester, Jane Doe Black

“And then he went on to talk about how The Most Holy made it possible for a man and woman to give each other pleasure with their bodies. He said it was one of the greatest gifts given to mankind, and a very powerful one. That many people misused and abused the gift, and misused and abused their bodies. ‘But for me and your mother, my wife, it’s a way for us to love each other, and be close to one another. It’s another way that a man takes care of his woman.”
― Nia Forrester, Snowflake

“Why are you being like this?” She”
― Nia Forrester, Commitment

“I don’t know if I can accept that my man, my partner would rather drown than accept a life-preserver from me.”
― Nia Forrester, Ivy's League

“That’s true,” she says. “When a man is ‘into’ a woman, he takes her out. He makes plans with, and for her. He makes her a part of his life, in public, not just in private and after the sun goes down. He doesn’t act like she’s his dirty, little secret.”
― Nia Forrester, Just Lunch