Leisa Rayven > Quotes

“Sometimes people put up walls, not only to keep people out, but also to see who cares enough to tear them down. Understand?”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“I never realized how much it hurt to not be with you until I saw you again, and the pain went away.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel. No wonder people live and die for this feeling.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“I love you,” he murmurs as he rests his head on my shoulder. “I love you so much. Don’t leave me.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“Everyone wears metaphorical masks during their lives. We all have different faces we show to work colleagues, or friends, or family. Sometimes we wear so many masks, we forget who we are underneath it all, but you have to find the courage to drop all the bullshit and revel your true self.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“It's a fucking crime that you haven't been kissed properly.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“without passion, life is meaningless,”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“Despite all the things I would have changed about our journey, I’d never want a different destination. It’s always been you.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“I pick up the phone and jab the answer button.
“Listen, dancing queen, I’m drunk, horny, and in no mood to hear about pretty men who aren’t going to fuck me. So for the love of my poor neglected vagina, order yourself another Cosmo and please fuck off.”
There’s a pause and an uncertain cough. “I’m more than happy to fuck off, but if it makes a different, I wasn’t going to talk about dicks. I’m far more interested to hear more about your poor neglected vagina. How’s she been? We haven’t had a face-to-face in a while.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“let’s say people are books. Everyone who comes into our lives is given a glimpse of a few of our pages. If they like us, we show them more pages. If we like them, we want them to see the unedited parts. Some people may make notes in the margins. Leave their marks upon us and our story. But ultimately, the words that are printed—that represent us as a person—don’t change without our permission.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Yes, I love you. But you have no idea how many times I’ve wished I didn’t.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Hey, guys,” I say as we stop in front of them. “Have a good summer?”
“I had an awesome summer,” Jack says with his trademark smirk. “I got together with the ex-girlfriend I dumped more than a year ago because I’m a miserable fuck who never stopped pining for her. Oh, wait, that was you, Holt, wasn’t it?”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Loving you … is the stupidest, most selfish thing I’ve ever done, but I can’t stop. God knows, I’ve tried.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Yeah, sure, I can do a passionate play with my ex-lover, who broke my heart not once, but twice. No problem.
I bang my head against the wall.
If there were a Nation of Stupid People, I would be their queen.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“You terrify me. But not enough to make me think you won’t be worth it.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“When you love someone, they should appear beautiful to you, no matter what they look like.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“We stand there for a few seconds before he thrusts one of the cardboard cups at me and says, “Oh, shit. This is, uh…this is for you.”
I take it and hold it up to my nose.
“What is it?”
“It’s an I’m-a-dick-achino.”
I try to stop the smile that lifts the corners of my mouth. “Huh. Smells like plain old hot chocolate to me.”
“Yeah, well, it turns out they were out of dick-achinos. I offered to make some more, but they said I was overqualified.”
“They were right.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“Cassie … We’ve never been over. You know it as well as I do. Even when I was halfway around the world and you hated my guts, we weren’t over. You can feel it between us now. And the closer we are, the stronger it gets.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“I did tell you to go fuck yourself”
“Yeah, but you didn’t mean it.”
“Yeah, I did.”
He frown. “Really? Wow. I totally misread that moment.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Let me help you be brave.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“Sometimes people put up walls, not only to keep people out, but also to see who cares enough to tear them down.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“There’s only so much you can watch someone sacrifice before you realize they’re changing who they are for you, and not in a good way.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Humans are strange creatures. We lie every day, in a thousand different ways. The most common lie is, ‘I have read the terms and conditions.’ The second most common lie is, ‘I’m fine.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Shh. Don’t talk. Just let me smell you.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“Don’t even try to tell me you’ll ever love someone as much as you love me, because as arrogant as it is to say, that’s bullshit. And I feel the same way about you. Everyone else is just going to be second best for us. Don’t you get that?”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“The thing about developing an addiction is that it happens so quietly, you don’t know how much trouble you’re in until it’s to late. It tiptoes through the rooms of your mind and body, gently inserting hooks and strings into every cell, until you don’t know where you end and it beginigs. And untangling that web is nearly impossible.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“If our relationship was only based only on sex, do you think we’d have gone through all the shit we have? Sex is easy. It’s an itch that needs to be scratched, and as much as I love having sex with you, what I want from you isn’t easy. It’s messy and complicated, and it’s filled with so much fucking passion, I don’t have a clue how to cope with it all. But I find a way, because I love you. And love is hard, but it’s worth it. You’re worth it.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there’s a light from within.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“He’s sold his soul to Lucifer in return for sexual powers over frustrated virgins. It would explain a lot.”
― Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo

“Heartache doesn't teach you to be resilient. It teaches you to protect your fragility. It teaches you to fear love. And it draws a bright red circle around all the ways you've failed as a person and laughs while you cry.”
― Leisa Rayven, Wicked Heart