J.B. Hartnett > Quotes

“Today, I saw a burst of color the same hues as the sunset: a bright orangey-pink, the train of a dress just floating there as that vision moved toward me … like a flower, when it opens, the petals begin in that deep rich color, then lighten, then darken again on the edges … it was like you’d been dipped into the horizon and given to me.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“I brought you here for the same reason I keep coming back to the bar in the hope of hearing you sing, the same reason I bought this and your other paintings. I need you. It scares the f**k out of me but I have never felt this in my entire life. I need to be near you, to hear your voice and see your face.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Inky

“Then let's be scared together, Anika. Let me love you the way you should be loved. We'll take each day as it comes, but we have to talk. You have to promise me that if you start to feel panicky at all, you'll tell me. Don't walk away. I want to help, I mean it.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Inky

“How're you holding up?" He slid down the wall next to me and handed me a beer.
"I've had better days." I took a long, satisfying drink and stared at the wall in front of me.
"Yeah," was his simple reply. "My dad is downstairs. He said this wake sucks." I could hear that he was smiling.
I took another swig. "Well, I didn't plan this shindig, but the next funeral I host, I'll make sure it's a rager.”
― J.B. Hartnett, The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare

“Because your pain is my pain, Anika. I can’t take it away, but I’ll wear it with you.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Cole

“You're beautiful, and I bet you..." He thought for a long moment and then he said, "I bet you another kiss on your eighteenth birthday, you are going to be beating guys off with a stick."
"Another kiss?" I laughed and heard it echo back at me through the woods. "I haven't been kissed yet. How can there be-"
Then it happened. I felt his tongue against my lips, and I panicked. What do I do? What do I do? I pulled away and exclaimed, "I don't know how!"
He chuckled and brought my head back to his. Then he showed me how.”
― J.B. Hartnett, The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare

“It’s the beard,” I said to my friends matter-of-factly. “It makes me want to just climb up onto his face, hold onto his man-mane, and take a ride. Wait, did I just say that out loud?”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“If anyone asks me what I had for lunch, I’m totally gonna say, the cream of some young guy.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“I came here because, for me, no matter how much it hurt the last time I left all those years ago, it feels like…home.”
He crossed the room to me, opened his hand, and placed it palm flat against my chest as his voice cracked. “My home is here,” he said.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I wanted to watch you bloom. I wanted to be the man who made you blossom and here I am, face to face with the most beautiful flower I’ve ever seen. And now it’s mine.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“He leaned down and kissed me again, more chaste this time. “Now, we get to know each other. When it happens, whether it happens tonight or another one, I just want it to mean to you what it’ll mean to me.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“You’re light, Victoria. And when you’re ready, I hope I get to make you shine again.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“The two men examined Ahren.
"I think you can never have too many hot guys at your funeral. It makes a statement. That statement being, 'And adored by hot fuckable men the world over'.”
― J.B. Hartnett, The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare

“I didn’t want a casual fuck, nor did I want a lover. I wanted him to take my soul as his own, fill my heart with his words, and love me with everything he was and ever would be.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“It’s the beard,” I said to my friends matter-of-factly. “It makes me want to just climb up onto his face, hold onto his man-mane, and take a ride.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“When the door closed behind him, I cried. I was still crying when my mom returned, and I continued to cry through the night. And then I stopped crying. And started to live for me.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“Rylie,” he said gently. “I love you. I’ve loved you since I understood what the word meant. I love who you are now, who you were then. And I’m gonna love you no matter what happens tomorrow, or next week, or next year.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I was too young to understand what letting you go meant when I was eighteen. Now I know, and I don’t plan on giving up this time.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“And it's totally sweet. Gus has tried it, he loves it, and thank God because, oh yeah, that's what I was trying to tell you, about not being an ambi-feeder. So, it's totally easy to feed him on the left side, but when I try on the right, it doesn't work as well… hence, not an ambi-feeder. So, I end up always having a really full left boob, big left tit, B.L.T. and the right one, starts to hurt a little when it gets full because baby never feeds as much on that side. So at night in bed, Gus takes a little drink for me so my boobs won't hurt. He calls it dessert.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Nico

“We’d better go before I try to make out with you in my kitchen.” She laughed out loud, her dark hair shining in the fluorescent lights. “Zack would love that!”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“I used to tell you everything,” I said, wistfully recalling all the letters and phone calls from years past.
“You did.”
No bullshit.
Honesty.
I lifted up to my tiptoes, so I could almost look him eye to eye, and said, “I’m really looking forward to having sex with you, Quentin.”
At my admission, he threw his head back and filled the entire first floor of his house with laughter.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“You have always and will always be my first. My first love, the first girl I ever kissed, the first girl I ever touched. The mind is a powerful thing, and I know for a fact the fantasy of you will always be better than the reality of anyone else. You are my heart. You are my saviour. You are my sky.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I wish every story had a happy ending,” I said sadly into my glass. “Victoria … this story does.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“Even if the woman who had my heart, my eternal love, didn’t choose me, I could be there to help her rise from the ashes and once again be my sky.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“I'm scared," I whispered and put the fork down.
"Yeah, I know ya are. We're all gonna die, Cookie. Death is the devil you know. The better you live, the more you piss him off, and he just hates that. Right now, you're lettin' him get his way.”
― J.B. Hartnett, The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare

“My heart had healed with the balm of another, love blossoming, love renewed, reunited in the arms of the first man who’d treasured it, and treasured it still.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Watching the Sky Cry

“Never fuck with a scorned woman’s scorned daughter.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“But when you know, you know. And when you’ve lost everything you thought was real, you recognize real when you see it. You just have to trust it.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“Try not to laugh. To the girl with golden hair and beauty with no compare. Wait for me at midnight. Sit at your window, in your lovely pink chair and wait, my sweet. I’ll find you there. C”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom

“You’re like a bad penny,” I said, squinting at him. “Sometimes, you need a penny when you least expect it, Victoria.”
― J.B. Hartnett, Bride in Bloom