Lyla Payne > Quotes

“I’m afraid you’re going to break me, Quinn.”
“Don’t let me.” The challenge in his eyes intensified, heating up and pouring strength into me. “Don’t you let me fucking do that, Emilie. Don’t let anyone break you. You’re stronger than that.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“It hurt a little that she looked happy to see me, when I only came to break her.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“It had to be her heart, too, or I lose. Sex and feelings. Shame and regret. That was the game.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“I thought I’d won the match when she’d fallen into my arms, heart and all. The truth was, she’d beaten me. Snatched my soul and shattered all the lies I’d built around me to keep the pain of connecting at bay.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“In tennis, losing your service game was called being broken.
If you lost your service without scoring a single point, you were broken at love.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“Quinn Rowland. God could not be serious with that face, on that body, with those eyes…”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“Time to dig deep and find a Quinn Rowland capable of convincing Emilie to let me fuck her, because losing wasn’t an option. There was too much at stake, and my pride was the least important item on the list.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“You can't be responsible for anyone but you, Cole. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can't fix them. You deserve me because I say you do, not because other people think so or don't.”
― Lyla Payne, By Referral Only

“The beginning is the very best place to start. Julie Andrews said so, and she is a literal goddess.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Alive

“My father hadn’t ruined me. It was impossible to ruin a person who had never been formed correctly to begin with, but I had ruined a few people of my own over the past several months.”
― Lyla Payne, Broken at Love

“I turn my eyes heavenward, asking silently of God if he listens to complaints about pain-in-the-ass men. He probably doesn’t. It would take up too much of his time.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“People don’t get to choose their paths in life, but we can choose how we walk it.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite True

“You should never defend yourself, girl. Those people who would believe you already know better and those who won’t aren’t listening anyway.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“I used to be the kind of girl who believed in destiny and one true loves and happily ever afters, but the past several years did nothing but show me the opposite. It might be part of growing up to accept that love like that doesn’t exist, and maybe we shouldn’t want it to. Love is about working hard, about showing up when you don’t want to, about sticking around when you’d rather leave. My grandparents, God rest their souls, fought like badgers at times.”
― Lyla Payne, Lowcountry Mysteries: Volume 1

“there’s no point to being scared of losing people all the time and forgetting to cherish them. “I”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite True

“not the ones that remind me that the person I’d dreamed I’d be is not the person the mirror says I’ve become.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“My life is a series of land mines and half-decomposed skeletons lurking in cluttered closets—and some of them aren’t just in my head.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Cold

“but Henry kept me up half the night playing a trick he just learned—to turn the lights on and off. Once he learned that this also works with the radio, I may as well have given up sleeping. He and I are about to have a come-to-Jesus chat, because there isn’t anything I love more than sleep.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Gone

“Responsible trespassers probably check the weather report before following dead people into the woods, but not me.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Cold

“Not that it would matter one way or another, since he fell for unwashed-ponytail-and-three-day-old-scrubs Jeyne. But still. Guys appreciate effort, even if they wouldn’t know fashion if it bounced past them naked on a pogo stick.”
― Lyla Payne, Secrets Don't Make Friends

“My family isn’t like yours,” he says. “Well, I certainly hope not. We can’t all be dreamers and crackpots, you know.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Gone

“hotter than two rabbits screwing in a wool sock.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“No one deserves love, Millie. Some of us are lucky enough to have it in our lives, anyway, so I choose to be thankful. Even if we dent it a little.” “I”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Clear

“maybe that’s what love is—making each other hurt in as many good ways as bad ones.”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Gone

“Yes. I don’t want anyone to know I’m running the website. Half the guys at this school have some kind of mob connection and the other half have enough spare change in their cup holders to hire a hit man." - Ruby”
― Lyla Payne, By Referral Only

“Just my luck. I get dueling devil voices. Maybe my angel picked up my drinking problem and is passed out on a cloud somewhere.”
― Lyla Payne, Lowcountry Mysteries: Volume 1

“me, a woman who is barely held together with scraps of tape and pieces of string, a bundle of mistakes and wrong turns and so many I-don’t-knows that I’ve lost count. Something”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite True

“Calm down, crazy cakes. You can swim in your own insecurities if you want, but no need to invite the whole town in for a skinny dip. “Never”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Cold

“It’s pretty much announcing my surrender to the world, like when men wear sweatpants in public. It”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead

“Maybe there’s never enough time. “Okay,”
― Lyla Payne, Not Quite Dead