Lindi > Lindi's Quotes

“I don't know," I stuttered, "Do you love me?"
His gaze was so intent the entire world seemed to stop. "You tell me. I never stop thinking about you. I worry about you all the time. Every beautiful thing I see reminds me of you. I can't finish my practices in Colorado with out wishing you were around," he said in a steady tone. "You tell me what I feel.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“I'm starting to understand that you can always make time for the things that matter.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“What no one tells you is that the road to accomplishing your goals isn’t a straight line; it looks more like a corn maze. You stopped, you went, you backed up, and took a few wrong turns along the way, but the important thing you had to remember was that there was an exit. Somewhere.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“When life gives you lemons, you get to choose what you make out of them; it doesn’t always have to be lemonade.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“What if everyone hates me and no one talks to me? What if someone throws something at me?” Aiden snorted, setting the shirt he’d been holding aside and picking up the next one on the pile. “What are they going to throw? Bookmarks?”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“The only people in the world who can hurt you are those you let have that ability, Van.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“That’s my girl. That’s my fucking girl.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Home is where you are. I would go anywhere for you if you wanted me there.”
― Mariana Zapata , The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“When I was a kid, I learned the hard way how expensive the truth was. Sometimes it cost you people in your life. Sometimes it cost you things in your life. And in this life, most people were too cheap to pay the price for something as valuable as honesty.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Because every relationship will end up one of two ways: you’ll end up breaking up, or you end up marrying the person. And I don’t like wasting my time.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Life was all about choices. You chose what to make out of what you had. And I wasn’t going to let it make me its bitch. I could be a mature adult who knew her limits. I could be a good person. Maybe not all the time, but enough.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Don’t focus on the what ifs. Focus on what is.”
― Vi Keeland, Bossman

“Fear does not stop death. It stops life.”
― Vi Keeland, Bossman

“You have my heart. Promise me you'll keep it safe.'
'Only if you promise never to give mine back.”
― Vi Keeland, Bossman

“I launched myself at him, throwing my arms around his neck. “I quit.”
He wrapped his arm around my waist, and with one quick hitch, he lifted me up. “It’s about damn time.”
― Vi Keeland, Bossman

“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until you find it.”
― Vi Keeland, Bossman

“I figured I’d lay all my cards on the table. You’re not having sex. I’m not having sex. Thought maybe we could work through our problem together.”
“I don’t have a problem.”
“So why aren’t you having sex, then?”
“Why aren’t you?”
“Because I’d like to have it with you, and you haven’t given in to me. Yet” He brought the beer to his lips and watched me as he drank.
“I can’t believe we’re having this conversation. You know I’m seeing someone.”
“I do. That’s why we’re having this conversation. If you weren’t seeing someone, I’d have you up on that kitchen island showing you what I want to do to you, rather than telling you.”
“Is that so?”
He moved closer. “It is.”
“What if I’m not into you in that way?”
Chase looked down, his eyes lingering on my nipples. My very erect nipples. “Your body says otherwise.”
― Vi Keeland, Bossman

“Everyone has scars, Tenley.
If we're lucky, they're only on the outside".”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Any kind of modification, whether it’s to alter physical features, like cosmetic surgery, or to decorate, like piercings and tattoos, cause some degree of discomfort. But that’s the point, isn’t it? It’s cathartic because it’s the promise of change in some form or another. My tattoos give the memory related to the art a place to exist outside of my head, on my body. At least that’s my interpretation, but not everyone feels the same way I do.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I was starting to think of her as mine. For the first time in my life, I wanted someone for myself. And I would take her any way she came.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I want you, only you, all of you, for as long as I can have you.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I hadn’t considered the possibility that I might find someone who would understand what I had endured and want me anyway, even though I wasn’t whole.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“You don’t usually work Mondays, do you? What about Tuesday?
I grinned. She knew I didn’t work on Monday. That meant she was aware of my schedule. Nice. We were both creepers.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Everyone has scars, Tenley. If we’re lucky, they’re only on the outside.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“appened to her to be too big for me to handle. “Maybe I can fix her. Jamie fixed you, right? So maybe I can do that for Tenley.” Lisa’s smile was sad. “It’s not that simple, Hayden. We’re not machines. We don’t have replacement parts. I love Jamie, he’s my world and he always will be, but he didn’t fix me. He gave me a reason to fix myself.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“We were both slaves to the guilt we harbored.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“but the more ink he added, the more vulnerable I felt. There was a chance I might shatter if I revealed too much.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“I had spent the past ten months cultivating solitude, but now I wanted contact, physical and emotional.”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“If you were mine, Iris there would be no doubt what position you’d hold in my life. You’d be center. I’d play you at the five.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Take them back. Your soul is yours. Your heart is yours. Your body is yours. Yours to keep and yours to share.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot