Isabel Lucero > Quotes

“Here’s to the people we fuck, here’s to the people who fuck us, if the people we fuck are fucking with us, fuck them and here’s to us.” – Nico”
― Isabel Lucero, Living in Sin

“I’m not confident that I’m good enough for you, and you’re the only one who makes me feel like a king. When I’m with you I feel like I can do anything, and you make me want to be better and do better.”
― Isabel Lucero, Living in Sin

“Are you a dinner and a movie type girl, or a picnic in the park type girl, or a stay indoors, preferably in the bedroom type girl?”
― Isabel Lucero, Living in Sin

“Here’s to the people we fuck, here’s to the people who fuck us, if the people we fuck are fucking with us, fuck them and here’s to us!”
― Isabel Lucero, Living in Sin

“Adrienne, I never want to hurt you. I only want to make you feel good.”
― Isabel Lucero, Living in Sin

“I just want you to want me the way I want you."

"And how's that?"

"Overwhelmingly and all-consuming. I want you to feel my absence like you'd feel a knife in your chest.”
― Isabel Lucero, Dysfunctional

“My life is only whole because of you. My heart knows the beat of yours, and though I could live without you, I don’t want to. I choose not to and will choose you every day for the rest of my life . To be without you, would be to live a partial life. To be partially happy. To be incomplete. And I want to be whole. I want you to be my forever.”
― Isabel Lucero, Splintered

“You can’t ask me to tell you to walk away, because I remember what it feels like to be the one left behind, and I’ve been waiting for you to come back to me for a long time. If you want me. Truly. Without reservation or fear, come to me and tell me, and I’ll be waiting.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Leaving you the way I did still remains my biggest regret. Seeing how hurt you were is seared into my brain. Because you…you were everything to me. And when I lost you, I lost a part of myself.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Every day that we’re apart my heart feels like it doesn’t know how to beat.”
― Isabel Lucero, Splintered

“Love is just a trite four-letter word. People use it for every fucking thing.”
― Isabel Lucero, Dysfunctional

“I push my face into his neck and inhale, my body relaxing in his arms like it knows this is where I’m supposed to be, like we’re finally home.”
― Isabel Lucero, Splintered

“My heart aches in your absence. It physically hurts sometimes. I think it only beats in hopes of finding the piece you took from it, longing to be whole again.”
― Isabel Lucero, Splintered

“I don’t know what’s possible between us. At times I feel like maybe nothing, but at others, I hope for the most incredible future. The two thoughts have been at war in my mind for a long time.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“You couldn't kill me, Kaspian."

I bite my bottom lip before a smile takes over. "Don't underestimate me.”
― Isabel Lucero, Dysfunctional

“Selfishness overpowers everything, and I’m not afraid to admit that I’m selfish enough to keep this up—because he is mine. He always has been. She’s just been borrowing him.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“So I decide, from here on out, I’ll be detached. Maybe it’ll save me from future heartbreak. I won’t allow this to happen again. I clearly can’t trust anyone. Love means nothing. Apparently you can say you love someone and still hurt them beyond repair.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“He folds his left arm on the table, the fingers on his right hand brushing against his bottom lip. “I was thinking about whether or not you’d obey me, allowing me to use you for my pleasure before I gave you yours.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Like the good husband that I am, I check in with my wife before I head to a sex club with the guy I’ve been sleeping with. I scoff at myself. Disappointed, and yet, not willing to stop.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Walking away from him split me apart. My heart has been living without a piece of it for years, because that piece resides in him. I’m married. I’m married.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I look away, unable to keep eye contact any longer. He was right. We shouldn’t be trying to be friends. Or be left alone together.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“Matías gives him a tight grin. “No worries. We’ll be in room thirteen if you’re interested in seeing what you can’t have.” He takes my hand and leads me down the hall to door number thirteen. My chest vibrates with excitement. At his claim. At his authority. At him telling this man he can watch us.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“It’s going to be great, because it is you. Everything you do will be better than I’m used to, because it’s real and because I want you in a way that I’ve never wanted anybody. Not once in my life did I think this would ever happen between us. You are my dream come true.”
― Isabel Lucero

“I don’t know what you’ve done to me. You take my breath away while simultaneously granting me exactly what I need to feel alive.”
― Isabel Lucero, Splintered

“I feel so overcome with emotion, and I don’t know why. I want to say things I have no right to say. I want to cry and beg for his forgiveness for how I treated him before. My head is all over the place.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I hit reply and attach the itinerary, ready to send it with only that, but I hesitate. The devil on my shoulder whispers in my ear, and there’s no angel on the other side to counter the thoughts. It’s reckless, wrong, and a terrible idea. He’s married. I’m his boss. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. I begin typing.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“My heart recognizes that he’s the piece that’s been gone. It would be easy to fall in love with him all over again, if the circumstances were right.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I was thinking about whether or not you know what it’s like to be with a man. Not a college kid still learning what he likes, but a man who knows what he’s doing. A man who could open your world to things you haven’t thought about.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“We can’t choose our parents.” “No, but you can choose your family. You can find people who will accept and love you regardless, and you make a point to keep them close.”
― Isabel Lucero, His Secret

“I could live in this world without anything else as long as I have your arms to lie in at night. I want to get lost in your eyes for the rest of my days, because I know I’ll always find love in their depths. I’m not sure how I lived without you.”
― Isabel Lucero, Splintered