Lia Riley > Quotes

“If I never get lost, I’ll never be found.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“People want to be with the sunflowers, those who rise and face the sky. Who prefers fungus, moss, things that grow in the world’s dank and shadowed places?

No one.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Pretending to be a normal, functioning member of society is exhausting stuff.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Breathing’s difficult if you overthink the action, like staring at the word the for too long. Grows unnatural, bizarrely wrong.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Maybe I’m turned upside down, but at last I’ve landed right side up.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“If you burn away my bones, my love for him would remain, tattooed in the air.”
― Lia Riley, Sideswiped

“Bran and I are two loose ends who found a way to tie ourselves together.”
― Lia Riley, Sideswiped

“Somewhere hell was freezing over and Satan was figure skating.”
― Lia Riley, Best Worst Mistake

“Looks like I’m enduring a two-hour car trip with the human equivalent of a splinter—a sexy splinter.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“I remember something Bran said when we were hiking in Tasmania, about how people believe they see the same river but the water is always different. I am that river.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“I adore chocolate. I require books. They are like oxygen or water, vital to my existence.”
― Lia Riley, Mister Hockey

“I’m a high-functioning basket case.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“My characters blather away to each other. I simply turn up and listen.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Bran’s lips part. I glimpse his tongue and a slightly crooked incisor. These little details, I can’t stop gathering them like a kid seeking fistfuls of dandelions.”
― Lia Riley

“A kiss should be the simplest thing in the world. Not this gentle stirring, like wind through the underside of leaves, inexorable as the glacier grinding behind us. So hot and yet it doesn’t scorch. No, with every breath, with every touch, his kiss carves.”
― Lia Riley, With Every Breath

“It's selfish, but at the end of the day, that's what we are – selves. If we don't look out for our own interests, there are plenty who'll be more than happy to chip away at our core, piece by piece, until we forget what we ever wanted.”
― Lia Riley, With Every Breath

“I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest—HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“She’s the fire in my frozen heart. The hello in my long good-bye. The best goddamn thing that ever happened to my shithouse life.”
― Lia Riley, Sideswiped

“Who knows when our chapters will end? None of us know how long our stories will last. All we can do is make sure the pages are filled with life."
"And you think we can write a happy ending?"
"I don't know, but I'd rather try than not.”
― Lia Riley, Into My Arms

“You kiss me with your eyes every time you look at me.”
― Lia Riley, Into My Arms

“On her tombstone it would read: She came. She saw. She made it awkward.”
― Lia Riley, Mister Hockey

“I’ve ripped so many shameful secrets from my belly, held them out, covered in toxic grime for his inspection, but there’s no reciprocity.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“There are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“want to get well and truly lost. I’d like to outrun my own name if the option is at all possible.”
― Lia Riley, Upside Down

“Jump, and I'll catch you with both hands, but I won't push.”
― Lia Riley, Last First Kiss

“Nothing arrived after midnight except lovers and trouble.”
― Lia Riley, Last First Kiss

“Grandma?" Quinn raised her brows. "Fresh blood? What, is she a scary vampire?"

"Scarier," both men answered at the same time.”
― Lia Riley, Best Worst Mistake

“You really do love books.” He didn’t make it sound like a bad thing, but she still bristled. Because this was who she was. What she loved. “I adore chocolate. I require books. They are like oxygen or water, vital to my existence.”
― Lia Riley, Mister Hockey

“Jesus,” she whispered over and over. “Oh Jesus.” “No one’s answering those prayers but me,” he growled, clamping her full ass, dragging her over his pelvis.”
― Lia Riley, Mister Hockey