Natasha Boyd > Quotes

“How did he look at me?" I whispered, suddenly craving validation of Jack's feelings from anyone but myself and my subjective imagination.

Joey sighed, resigned. "Like you were the last chopper out of Baghdad, the last IV in the field hospital, the last funnel cake at the fair. Jesus, I don't know.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“Damn, I know. I remember your mountains of books. I want to build you a library." Jack lowered his mouth and kissed me.
I swallowed as emotion clogged my throat. He might as well have asked me to marry him.”
― Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack

“It occurred to me that the moment in space and time before lips touch, the small exquisite sting of wanting, a beat of thirst, of yearning, was the most underrated part of kissing. There should be sonnets and epic poems written about the space before a kiss, and the thrilling rush that comes with the moment of contact.”
― Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack

“If I'd known you were in my future, I would have chosen differently.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“You have a habit of carrying me up stairs". I laughed nervously as he effortlessly ascended.

"I'm part caveman, you know, I can't help it. Something about you brings it out in me.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“The way I feel about you was never a decision. It just was. I was made to love you. I never fell, I was already there. From the very first moment.”
― Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack

“He was like a bright and beautiful rogue planet. He pulled the entire galaxy into a gravitational wobble until he got close enough to suck you in and tilt your axis head over heels.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“You know you're in the Lowcountry when the steering wheel in your old red pick up is slippery from humidity, the news on the radio is all about the projected path of the latest Atlantic hurricane and the road kill you narrowly miss smearing further is a five foot long alligator.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“If you had chosen differently, you would have never found me.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“And that’s how I thought of love. Blue and infinite, clear but deep, where no man could truly reach. A deep blue eternity.”
― Natasha Boyd, Deep Blue Eternity

“Having our passions in due subjection to our reason is the greatest victory that can be acquired, and perhaps ’tis a lesson the easier learned for being early taught.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“The truth of the matter was no boy I knew lived up to the fantasy I’d created from the many books I’d read, and I wasn’t going to settle.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“The crushing paralysis that came from being stuck between a past I couldn’t return to and a future I couldn’t have was heightened by the realization there was nothing to be done about it. I”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“Something was unfurling within me from behind the fear of societal expectation. Something true and deep. A part of my soul I'd always known was there but never acknowledged. I knew I'd never completely stop playing the role assigned to me in this life, but I would never, ever, let it compromise me.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“Christian Grey?” Jazz asked haughtily. “Me-thinks more Gideon Cross. That man can wear a suit.”
― Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack

“Great. I get to meet Jack Eversea, the Jack Eversea, and I act like a complete imbecile. It was so good Jazz wasn't here, she would have clobbered me by now. For that matter, she would have clobbered him and dragged him back to her lair.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“He dropped his voice. “Not as many people have as free a mind and affection as you do, Eliza. Not many understand that we accord a certain friendship and respect to our Negroes. And ’tis a dangerous pursuit.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“I was never one to pull a band aid off slowly. Besides, we could be struck by lightning right now and I don't think I'd feel it or care. I want you inside me, Jack. Now. Not slowly, but like right now.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“Having our passions in due subjection to our reason is the greatest victory that can be acquired, and perhaps ’tis a lesson the easier learned for being early taught.” —Eliza Lucas, 1722–1793”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“I closeted myself away at our plantation, only keeping in touch by occasional written word, and waited for time to do its healing work. Time trudged by so slowly. I was butterfly pinned by my wings to the canvas of my mistakes.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“one can always judge a man’s character by how he treats those beneath him.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“The thing about pain, whether physical or emotional, is there's no running away. You can't escape it and you can't hide from it. Not by ignoring it, not by drugging it, not by doing a swan dive into a bottle. Sooner or later you'll have to take a breath, let the pain rush in and get to the other side like your life depends on it. Because it does.”
― Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack

“I plugged my ear buds into my phone and put Keane on shuffle. Those boys always knew how to speak to my mind.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“The upside of fall was the tourists had gone home. The downside was the county stopped spraying for mosquitos and no-see-ums, so the little fuckers got to gorge themselves in a type of 'eat local' frenzy.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“Men were such simple creatures, it was rather frightening to know they held the complicated nature of civilization in their hands.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“My tight black spaghetti-strap dress threaded with gold was a tad short. And by short, I mean it was like wearing a belt. I’d bought it with the idea of branching out from my usual Keds and jeans and pairing it with leggings. But no, not tonight. If I dropped anything, it was going to stay on the freaking ground.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea

“The sky, with no clouds to keep us swaddled, was cold and blue. The sun danced artlessly across the indigo water.
...I'd left with hope in my heart, and I returned without even a heart in my chest. I was filled instead with the weight of my failures. If I slipped overboard I knew the heaviness inside me would pull me down faster than the drag of my voluminous dress.”
― Natasha Boyd, The Indigo Girl

“No, it's real Jack. And real Jack has very real, like crazy, crazy, real feelings for you that might actually scare the shit outta him a little.”
― Natasha Boyd, Forever, Jack

“How can you not know? That's like asking why we breathe air. Because it's the way we were made. I'm telling you, that's how it is for me. The way I feel about you was never a decision. It just was. I was made to love you. I never fell. I was already there. From the very first moment.”
― Natasha Boyd

“Because I might melt. Literally. ANd because I may never survive it.”
― Natasha Boyd, Eversea