Melody Grace > Quotes

“Mom always told me there are two kinds of love in this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“I always want you, Jules. Even when I hated you, even when I wished I’d never see your face again, I still lost my mind thinking all the things I’d do to you, if you came back.” His voice breaks. When he speaks again, it’s with a rough, ragged tone, like he’s forcing the words out.
“I’ll always want you, Juliet. It’ll be the fucking death of me, but I won’t ever stop.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“You’re mine,” he says again fiercely. “Not his, not anyone else’s. You can try and pretend you don’t feel it, but you do. You’ll always be mine.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“Looking back, I wonder if mom saw it in my eyes: the storm clouds gathering, the dry crackle of electricity in the air. But it was already too late. No warning sirens were going to save me. I guess you never really know the danger, not until you’re the one left, huddled on the ground, surrounded by the pieces of your broken heart.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“My mom always said, there are two kinds of love in this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane.
The steady breeze is slow and patient. It fills the sails of the boats in the harbor, and lifts laundry on the line. It cools you on a hot summer’s day; brings the leaves of fall, like clockwork every year. You can count on a breeze, steady and sure and true.
But there’s nothing steady about a hurricane. It rips through town, reckless, sending the ocean foaming up the shore, felling trees and power lines and anyone dumb or fucked-up enough to stand in its path. Sure, it’s a thrill like nothing you’ve ever known: your pulse kicks, your body calls to it, like a spirit possessed. It’s wild and breathless and all-consuming.
But what comes next?
“You see a hurricane coming, you run.” My mom told me, the summer I turned eighteen. “You shut the doors, and you bar the windows. Because come morning, there’ll be nothing but the wreckage left behind.”
Emerson Ray was my hurricane.
Looking back, I wonder if mom saw it in my eyes: the storm clouds gathering, the dry crackle of electricity in the air. But it was already too late. No warning sirens were going to save me. I guess you never really know the danger, not until you’re the one left, huddled on the ground, surrounded by the pieces of your broken heart.
It’s been four years now since that summer. Since Emerson. It took everything I had to pull myself back together, to crawl out of the empty wreckage of my life and build something new in its place. This time, I made it storm-proof. Strong. I barred shutters over my heart, and found myself a steady breeze to love. I swore, nothing would ever destroy me like that summer again.
I was wrong.
That’s the thing about hurricanes. Once the storm touches down, all you can do is pray.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“Because I realize now, that's the way it works. That if you're lucky, you might get to fall in love so hard and so deep, that it changes you. That love seeps its way into every atom and molecule in your whole being, so that even if it's over, or the two of you are forced apart, you'll always carry the imprint of their soul with you, steady as a heartbeat. Forever....”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“Emerson lifts his head. His eyes are two dark pools of desire, a clouded night’s sky. He catches his breath a moment, unsteady, and then drops a kiss on my lips. Sweet. Almost tender. I barely have time to take it in before he grabs my shoulder and spins me around, pushing me so my bare chest is slammed up into the wall, my cheek pressed against the cold concrete.

I gasp, my heart skipping with the thrill. I can feel him up against me, a solid wall of muscle trapping me in place, the hard ridge of him pressed against the small of my back. I can’t move, or see the expression on his face, only hear the hoarse groan Emerson sounds as he twists a handful of my hair and yanks it to one side, kissing a searing trail along the curve of my neck.

I whimper, bound and powerless against him, and oh God, loving every minute of it.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“I cant believe you named your boat after me.... " Emerson coughs. "Well i figured it suited her" He gives me a devilish grin. "She was a stubborn bitch, but once i got my hands on her, she fell into line”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“I don't want to call her a shallow bitch, but she earns it.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“This is my favorite place in the world" Emerson's voice is low, thick with desire. "Right here. In you”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“why do our hearts reach out and cling to each other, with no promise of anything in return? Is it written deep in our DNA to crave that connection, even in the face of such obstacles, or is it the only way our souls can find some peace in this world, when finally we find a mate to match our steps through the lonely darkness, a fellow heart to share the heavy load?”
― Melody Grace, Unconditional

“Time doesn’t exist; the four walls of the room mean nothing. All that matters is the two of us, dancing together as one. One heartbeat, one will, one soul…”
― Melody Grace, With Every Heartbeat

“And once you feel love, real love, you can never forget the taste of those kisses, the sun-drenched mornings, the secret pleasures of the gasping, restless nights.”
― Melody Grace, With Every Heartbeat

“sometimes fate is the hardest choice of all.”
― Melody Grace, Untouched

“Sharing something real, revealing your heart . . . that always matters, whether it’s for a week or a year.”
― Melody Grace, Meant to Be

“This isn't just a fascination, an idle crush, no, this is something deeper, a desire that snakes through my veins, hot and hungry.”
― Melody Grace, With Every Heartbeat

“Hope is never stupid.”
― Melody Grace, Untouched

“You don't even know what your body is capable of yet. But I'm going to teach you. You're going to come so many times you won't even remember your own name."
EMERSON”
― Melody Grace, Untouched

“This summer just got a whole hell of a lot more interesting.
"Welcome to Cedar Cove.”
― Melody Grace, Untouched

“Dance with me, Annalise," Raphael whispers. "Dance with me, and see what it feels like to dance without rules, without boundaries. From the soul.”
― Melody Grace, With Every Heartbeat

“Real love is messy, and broken, and hard. Not all fairy tales and Prince Charming.”
― Melody Grace, Meant to Be

“Love doesn't always last the first time, or the second”
― Melody Grace

“Is this what people feel all the time? I marvel at the idea. How am I supposed to function, to focus, now that I know that he is out there in the city somewhere? That he might be thinking about me…”
― Melody Grace, With Every Heartbeat

“It’s hard to live wild and reckless when you have to be up at five a.m. to start baking bread for the day.”
― Melody Grace, Meant to Be

“There are some things in life we know to be true, beyond logic or reason, science or faith. Irresistible truths, they're called, the things we seem to instinctively grasp, as if the knowledge were imprinted deep in our DNA, written on the very fiber of our souls.”
― Melody Grace, With Every Heartbeat

“My mom always said, there are two kinds of love in
this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“The moments that change our lives arrive just like any other: stunning in their ordinariness, a second ticking on by, blink and you miss them spinning past. But they shiver through our lives like an earthquake, radiating out from that single heartbeat, shaking our very foundations, and revealing cracks and deep crevices that, in time, will fill up our lives with a future we could never dream of.”
― Melody Grace, Heartbeats

“Her readers didn’t come to her looking for the real world, they wanted an escape from it. A place to disappear in between school pick-up runs and double shifts at the hospital; a place where fate wasn’t cruel, hope won out, and love was never in vain.”
― Melody Grace, Meant to Be

“Even if I’d known what was coming, and how that one decision would change the course of everything, I still don’t think I could have stayed away. He was inevitable. My temptation. Half”
― Melody Grace, Heartbreaker

“Some horses will never be tamed,” Grandpa used to tell me. “The only way you get through is to earn their respect. You’ve got to learn what they’re so scared about, because the wildest ones… Well, those are the ones that are the most scared of all.”
― Melody Grace, Unafraid