Natalia Jaster > Quotes

“Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“The greatest courage a person can have is to love another, for there are only two outcomes. Either the love lasts, and our lives are compromised, or it doesn’t, and our lives are emptied. Either way, we suffer more than we celebrate. I’ve enjoyed suffering with you. We are a tale for campfires. That is all. That is everything.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life’s cruel trick.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“She watches him for hours. She wants to be the sheets that cover his toes. She wants to be the ceiling separating him from the sky: above him, the first thing he sees before and after dreams. She wants to be the open window letting in the light for him.”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“Father used to say that change took time, but he was wrong. It did not take any time at all to change me. The glimpse of a family. A beautiful tale. A child’s tears. A confession. A wound. An honest opinion. A friend’s betrayal. One parent’s death and another’s embrace. A touch—an instant slapping you with its light and jolting you back, shaken and blinking. Those quick moments were what changed people.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“Whoever deemed the ocean an invigorating place needed to reconsider the reality of crashing waves, sunburn, and sand wedged up into places no one should have it.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“If she could explore and heal his injuries with her fingers, it would be another type of magic, her skin making contact with his. Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his body. She would know him from top to bottom, from beginning to end.

Touching this boy would be the death, and life, of her.”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“The evil world expected me to curl up in a corner like a seashell--silent and small and breakable--forgetting that a seashell held the roar of an entire ocean inside it. I didn't need a voice, only my teeth and my dreams to save me”
― Natalia Jaster, Dare

“He holds out a trembling hand and traces the shape of her arm, descending to her elbow. “You’re like mist,” he says. “You really don’t feel this?”

Love shakes her head. “No.”

But that’s not entirely true, because this illusion of a touch has turned her into a current, this human has reached down to her bones.

Then his fingers curl right through her hip, and he lowers his voice. “How ’bout that?”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“I forgive you because you matter. You can wreck me, and I’ll still forgive you.”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“Hate breaks hearts. Love reinforces them.”
― Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae

“It’s strange how that happens, isn’t it? You forget how something looks, or smells or tastes or sounds.'
'Until it’s suddenly there again,' he agreed.
'Like it was never gone.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“In the daylight, you’re bold.
By the firelight, you’re brilliant.
Under the night light, you’re enduring.”
― Natalia Jaster, Dare

“I’m a trinket, a servant of the Crown. I’m a riddle, a hidden agenda.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“In the daylight, you’re bold.
By the firelight, you’re brilliant.
Under the night light, you’re enduring.
Always you're lasting”
― Natalia Jaster, Dare

“She wants to store the sound of him in a jar and carry it everywhere she goes.”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“I'm loving her everywhere," I murmured. "I feel the grip of her knees on my waist. I'm watching her pitch upward, arching into me, her breasts pointed. She's digging into my shoulders as we let our hips go, her thighs catching me. I'm loving her... because I do, and have, and will.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“Look closely but keep your wits as wide as the horizon. Carry a weapon but keep your heart open.”
― Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae

“Lose your path. Find your way.”
― Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae

“Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his body. She would know him from top to bottom, from beginning to end.

Touching this boy would be the death, and life, of her.”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“They'd broken one another's hearts. And they'd won them.”
― Natalia Jaster, Torn

“It asks permission, which makes it the sweetest, sexiest touch I’ve ever known.”
― Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae

“He stared up at me like I belonged to him, like he belonged to me. Like I made this dungeon safe.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“This is what it’s like, wanting to holler in joy, cry in relief, and scream in terror. I’m thrilled, and I’m awed, and I’m scared. Nobody can hold me down, because I’m a shooting star, and I’m a cyclone, with nature wrapping itself around me. And this moment is a dream, and it’s real, and it’s temporary, and it’ll last forever.”
― Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae

“Since I’m an asshat, I thought I’d have a choice with you, that I’d be able to walk away if you disillusioned me or turned out to be a blood-sucking creature of the night—and okay, I would have bailed if you were evil . . . Or maybe not. Knowing myself, I’d want to save you. But you’re not evil. The point is, I’m realizing you’re the same as everyone else in my life, only a thousand times more potent, and that has nothing to do with where you come from. I can grit my teeth about what you do, but I can’t control how I react to your laugh. I would rather be near you, see you touch everything but me, than be holding any other girl. I like being with you, Love. Playing, talking, fighting, not-touching.”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“I loved all of my son.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“You’re brave. You’ll get right back up and try again. It would be a shame not to, because even the birds have to risk crashing before they can fly.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick

“Belonging. That's what she offers him.”
― Natalia Jaster, Torn

“Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his body. She would know him from top to bottom, from beginning to end. Touching this boy would be the death, and life, of her. She”
― Natalia Jaster, Touch

“A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. 'Tis a woman who judges with her eyes closed. 'Tis people who invent aberrations from speculations and rumors. 'Tis bred from ignorance. That is life's cruel trick.”
― Natalia Jaster, Trick