Haley Nelson > Haley's Quotes

“His next words pitched low and rough. “Tell me what you want, Vivian. Do you want me on my knees?”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“I thought winning the World Championship was the best thing, the only goal I had for a long time. Shit, was I wrong. I realize today that the best thing includes winning with your loved ones.”
― Lauren Asher, Throttled

“Here I thought you only ate caviar and human hearts.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. Caviar tastes awful with human hearts.”
Vivian’s laugh evoked a strange sensation in my chest. Heartburn? Investigate later.”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“I recognize that sound. It's the sound of holding on to a cliff by the edge of your nails. The sound of barely containing a pain so immense that to look at it, to raise your own flesh and examine what's beneath, is to risk falling into a darkness you know you'll never escape.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Men, after all, delight in nothing so much as to recast themselves in the center of the story.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. Others called it the color of caramel, or occasionally the color of honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women’s features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“You’re right, sweetheart,” I said, dropping my forehead to hers with a resigned sigh. So. Fucked. “But the rules don’t apply to you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“My future husband was devastation poured into a suit. Not handsome by conventional means, but so powerful and compelling his presence swallowed every molecule of oxygen in the room like a black hole consuming a newborn star. There were generically good-looking men, and there was him.”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“Loneliness is a relative term. Is a dandelion seed lonely when its pod opens and the wind lifts it into the air? Once it lands and takes root, yes, it is solitary, but is it lonely? Of course not! It is content to know it was one of many.”
― Neal Shusterman, Gleanings

“A part of me would always find my way to her. She was my North Star, the brightest jewel in my sky.”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“I keep telling you this, gangster. I'm charming. By the time this is all over, you'll be head over heels in love with me.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Carnal Urges

“But I'll still be trying to scrub your face and your taste and your sweet voice from my mind fifty years from now, because I already know nothing else will ever be able to compare to you. Nothing and no one will ever come close.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Carnal Urges

“I don't care about any of that, because the way you look at me makes me feel like I could fly.”
― J.T. Geissinger

“This girl. I want to run away with her. Elope. Go on safaris. Sink down to the bottom of the ocean holding her hand.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“To all my ladies who see those walking Red Flags as a pretty shade of pink… repeat after me, only when the men are fictional.”
― S.J. Tilly, Nero

“Nothing in my life has felt as amazing as you, either. Nothing.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“I don't know if it's possible to fall in love with a man in four days. But if it is, I think I've just soundly accomplished that feat with Myles Sumner.”
― Tessa Bailey, My Killer Vacation

“I could love you easily, too. God help me, Taylor. I'm not sure how it happened and I don't know what's the right thing to do.”
― Tessa Bailey, My Killer Vacation

“What about what I could love?" she murmurs haltingly against my mouth, her eyes squeezed shut. "What about who I could love so easily?”
― Tessa Bailey, My Killer Vacation

“You are spectacular. You have woken me up, and I never want to be asleep again.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“I suppose it's not a bad thing to have an abundance of love.”
― Katee Robert, Court of the Vampire Queen

“You might have the bond, little dhampir, but we do, too. You're ours just as much as we're yours.”
― Katee Robert, Court of the Vampire Queen

“It felt... momentous," he said. "It felt important. It felt - I felt - filled with wonderful purpose. I want to feel that again.”
― Neal Shusterman, Gleanings

“Because it is easier to believe that scythes aren't real, and that I am a liar, and that the moon is made of cheese, than it is to admit that everything you believe about the world is wrong.”
― Neal Shusterman, Gleanings

“And, like the Thunderhead, we love humanity. But we know not to coddle it. Humanity must accept the consequences of its own actions. We cannot - should not - protect it from itself.”
― Neal Shusterman, Gleanings

“All beautiful things in life need the sun to bloom and thrive. We might not know each other very well yet, but I have no doubt you're the brightest light of sunshine, Grace.”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine

“If I could smile, I would. Lonely? How could I be lonely with friends like this on the journey?”
― Neal Shusterman, Gleanings

“I don't know what I've done in another life to deserve such an angel as my little sister, but I thank past-life me for it every single day.”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine

“I'm not the consequences of my assault. I refuse to let them define who I am.”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine

“I'm a patient man, though. And I have the feeling that everything related to Grace Allen will be worth the wait.”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine