Brighton Walsh > Quotes

“It took me two months to realize home is a relative term. It’s not a place, not a city or a house. Not an address you can write down, not somewhere you can plant a garden or paint the walls. It’s a feeling – when you’re complete, accepted, and loved unconditionally.”
― Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter

“God, baby, you’re so beautiful.” It sounds lame and inadequate, and I want to create a new word just for her. She deserves a new word. Hell, she deserves a whole fucking language.”
― Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter

“He’s stoic and proud, bigger than life. Sharp jaw, intense eyes, armor made up of metal and ink. He is intensity and want and desire. He’s happiness and frustration and comfort and hope and fear. He is my roller coaster.”
― Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter

“Did you manage to get that stick pulled out from your ass when I wasn’t looking?” “Spending a lot of time looking at my ass, are you, lawbreaker?”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“Every time I cook, it’s me on that plate, you know? It’s always nice to hear if someone likes what I’ve made for them.”
― Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter

“While I’ve been naked before, I’ve never been bare. Not like I am with him. I feel like he can see every bit of me, every ugly, unlovable part of me I’ve tried for years to hide away. He sees me. And he wants me anyway.”
― Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter

“For everyone who’s wished their book boyfriends would walk off the page and do filthy things to them, Beck’s for you.”
― Brighton Walsh, Protective Heart

“- I don’t feel free. I feel trapped, suffocated under the piles of baggage I’ve had strapped on my back for so long, it feels like they’ve melded to my very soul. I’d give anything for a moment of peace. To be able to breathe.”
― Brighton Walsh, Caged in Winter

“Sometimes I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up. I’d lie awake in bed, wondering, wishing, hoping that I’d close my eyes and then I just … wouldn’t open them ever again.”
― Brighton Walsh, Captive

“If anyone thinks you’re too much, they can fuck off and find something less.”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“For all the “unlikeable” heroines out there. If you were a man, they’d call you assertive instead of bitchy. So hold your head high, adjust your crown, and keep it up, queen.”
― Brighton Walsh, Possessive Heart

“Okay, so my romantic life was fairly vanilla—and, like, imitation vanilla. Not even vanilla bean over here.”
― Brighton Walsh, Protective Heart

“Tomorrow isn’t a guarantee. Anything can happen from one day to the next.”
“Anything can happen, except when you’re with me. No one is getting to you when I’m here. No one is getting through me. I’d have to be dead first.”
― Brighton Walsh, Exposed

“Better, because now we don’t have to hide. Better, because now she’s mine. My opposite. My balance. My strongest weakness. And the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
― Brighton Walsh, Dirty Little Secret

“She hadn’t imagined a single bit of it. If anything, her memories had dulled what they felt together. It was magic, pure and simple. The kind of chemistry she saw in movies, read about in books. But it wasn’t fiction. It wasn’t just something to wish upon.
It was real, and it was them, and it was right there in front of her.”
― Brighton Walsh, Charmer

“It felt nice to be looked after when I'd spent a lifetime looking after myself.”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“Showing someone you cared wasn’t always about surprise trips to Paris or spa getaways or a brand-new car with a bow on it. Sometimes it was about filling up their gas tank or making sure their favorite coffee never ran out.”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“Well, it was intimidating. You try being my size and facing a one-eyed Pringles can monster.” Beck inhaled sharply, which threw him into a coughing fit. Good. It served him right.”
― Brighton Walsh, Protective Heart

“Grumbly is a noise, not a look.” “Oh, believe me, you’ve made it a look.”
― Brighton Walsh, Protective Heart

“How lucky for me that one of your passions seems to be irritating the shit out of me.”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“You were always too good for me, weren’t you? Still are. Because you deserve to be made love to on a nice soft bed piled high with pillows, but I’m gonna fuck you against this wall like a goddamn animal instead.”
― Brighton Walsh, Charmer

“He’d hypnotized me with all his dumb man juju.”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“Will there be funnel cakes at this festival of yours?” “I didn’t realize funnel cakes were organic.” “Oh, shut up and answer the question.” “Of course there will. We’re not monsters.”
― Brighton Walsh, Defiant Heart

“For the first time in my life, it felt right. Not just correct, like it was the proper route, but sure, straight to my bones.”
― Brighton Walsh, Paige in Progress

“No matter what’s happened between us, I’d never want anything to erase what we had. Because what we had was real, Willow, and you know it. Don’t forget that.”
― Brighton Walsh, Charmer

“What I’m saying is you can’t let the mistakes of others stop you from figuring out your own. You’re a work in progress. Don’t be so jaded that you ignore the parts of you that still need to grow.”
― Brighton Walsh, Paige in Progress

“But more than anything, I wished for her happiness.”
― Brighton Walsh, Rebel Heart

“You don’t think of anyone but me when I’m standing in front of you, got it? My fingers. My mouth. My cock. I’ll give you any of them you want, but you only think of me.”
― Brighton Walsh, Paige in Progress

“All living things longed for the sun, and Everly was sunshine personified.”
― Brighton Walsh, Protective Heart

“Ever been axe throwing?” “No…” she said, but I could tell by her expression that the thought of being in proximity to a weapon while around me was appealing. “I see that gleam in your eye. You’re thinking about murdering me, aren’t you?” “I’m a doctor who pledged her life to help others. Of course I’m not thinking about murdering you.” “Just maiming, then.”
― Brighton Walsh, Fearless Heart