Nashoda Rose > Quotes

“You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“I’m not chasing after some chick I want to fuck. I’m chasing after a woman I love who isn’t letting me in.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“You need to fear me, not hate me."

I did. I feared him. But I think I hated him more. No, I knew I hated him more. For what he'd done. For what he was doing. For the betrayal. Most of all, for tarnishing something so beautiful and making it ugly. I trusted him. I gave myself to him, and he took me, peeled back layers of my soul until he saw it all. Then he took me.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“Please don’t ask me to let you go. I can’t do it. I’m not strong enough to do it again.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“Trust is built. Ours just needs to be rebuilt and it takes time. But baby, we’ll do it together.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“But I'm liking staying here if it means I get to check out two hot chicks every morning." Crisis winked at me, but when he looked at Logan, he was backtracking. "From a distance. Like a mile. Maybe ten miles. Fuck, sorry sweet stuff, but not going to admire you at all. I'll just admire Kat.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“He looked so beautiful, and it pissed me off that he could look so beautiful when he was so ugly.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“You’re my rainbow. The brilliant colors of you make me whole. Without your colors, I’m just a man living in the dark.”
― Nashoda Rose, Perfect Chaos

“This between us is what breaks a man, but it’s also what makes him whole. You make me whole, babe.”
― Nashoda Rose, Tyrant

“Maybe love couldn't be forgotten. But maybe, just maybe it could be smothered by hate.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“Emily, you mean more to me than anything. I love you. I want to be with you … Help you get through this. Baby, I missed you so much.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“We all know the definition of shattered: to break into pieces; to weaken, destroy; to damage, as by breaking or crushing.
But my story isn’t about being shattered.
It’s about surviving the pieces.
It’s about the strength found within the damaged.
It’s about love. Love found despite the jagged, tainted edges of who I’d become.
Warning: parts are ugly and dark. But there is beauty, too, and that is why we are here.”
― Nashoda Rose, Shattered by You

“Let me love you.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“Honey,” she whispered and it was as if she handed me the world with that single word. “When are you going to let someone save you?”
― Nashoda Rose, Perfect Ruin

“Baby, you’re the safest place I’ve ever been. You’re the only place I’ll ever belong … And you belong with me.”
― Nashoda Rose, Overwhelmed by You

“Baby, you’re the one who gave me the strength to survive Raul. It has always been you. It will always be you. Emily ...you’re my trophy. And I lost you.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“I’d never cared before. In order to care, you had to give a shit. I didn’t. Now I did and it was worse than any physical pain. It was acid eating away at my insides and feeling like there was no way back from the hell I lived in.”
― Nashoda Rose, Perfect Ruin

“I’ve never been the same.”
My breath hitched. “What?”
“After we were together. Something changed in me and I’m not going back. I like the change. And I miss the woman who gave it to me.”
― Nashoda Rose, Overwhelmed by You

“Scuplt, I’m different now.”
He moved in close, arm snug around her waist. “Yeah. You’re stronger, sexier, and have an attitude. Makes me want you more.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“A man who forced a girl was weak and pathetic. I was neither.”
― Nashoda Rose, Perfect Ruin

“You will break. One day that cool exterior you’re hiding behind will shatter. It has to. It has nowhere to go. And when it does happen, I intend to be there to help you pick up the pieces.”
― Nashoda Rose, Shattered by You

“He looked Häagen-Dazs delicious”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“I belong with you. I belong to you. And I love you.”
― Nashoda Rose, Overwhelmed by You

“Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.”
― Nashoda Rose, Irish Crown

“You're brave as hell. You're a survivor. And being scared doesn't mean you're weak. It means you're alive. It means you care”
― Nashoda Rose, Perfect Rage

“I'd never have fucked you if you didn't want it. Never. When we were together... Eme that was just me and you. No one else. I was scared there too and I needed you.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“I’m in love, baby. You’re my best friend and I love every part of you.”
― Nashoda Rose, Shattered by You

“When I’m with you, it feels like I’ve been given a second chance at living. I never thought I’d get that … I can breathe easily with you.”
― Nashoda Rose, Overwhelmed by You

“When you laugh … it’s like being handed a piece of you that no one else has ever seen.”
― Nashoda Rose, Shattered by You

“Day by day a layer of me was peeled away and I was left raw and exposed. I never thought I'd ever choose to die. But I did.
But I didn't die. So I existed.
I survived. And within the speck of dust, I had a speck of hope”
― Nashoda Rose, Perfect Ruin