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“I love you, Jude.”
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“And that makes me the luckiest bastard in the world.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“I just wanted you to know I'd be chasing after you right now, naked if need required it. But because I'm respecting your need for time and space, I'll force myself to lie here in bed and pretend I'm asleep.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“I’ll always be here, Luce. I’m yours,” he breathed, squeezing my hands, “forever.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“When are you going to stop looking at all the reasons you shouldn’t be together and start focusing on the reasons you should be?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“I swear that man swaggers in his sleep,”
“Yeah, but Jude’s swagger is justified, not manipulated. He moves with that strut because he knows how to make a woman throw her head back in bed. And he knows it.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“What the hell were you doing? Are you okay?"
"Did I win?"
"You kicked ass, baby."
"The I'm alright.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Luce. We fight. I'm used to that. Sure, that fight was the scariest ass one we've ever had, but you're here now. That's all that matters. No matter how many fights we have, or how much they tip the Richter scale, none of it matters as long as at the end of the day, you're still with me.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Jude wasn’t just my first love. He was my forever love.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Then what are you doing here, Luce?" he asked, his voice elevating. "You want time? You want space? Fine. I gave that to you. But then you keep throwing yourself back into my life whenever the hell you choose. No warning. No apology, No permanence. You show up at my front door and sneak out the back without so much as a goodbye," he continued, never taking his eyes off of me. "You couldn't take the up and down. The roller coaster was going to kill you. You know what I can't take? You in and back out of my life before I even knew you were there in the first place. You looking at me the way you are now and then able to turn your back and walk away five minutes later." His hands clenched over my cheek before he lowered it. "That is what will kill me. I can't live wondering if you're still mine to claim.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Whoa,” a stunned voice said, whistling a row below me. “You’re the girl Jude Ryder’s going to marry and make baby superheroes with?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Luce," Jude said, unfurling the blanket cinched around me, grabbing my hands when he pulled them free, "you're my girl. The girl." To join the other emotions flashing over over his face, a trace of pain did as well. "When I look at Adriana, or any other girl for that matter, that's all I see. Some other girl who isn't my girl. I don't see them, Luce. I see you," he continued, his skin lining between his brows. "I've only ever seen you.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“What are you doing here, Luce?" he asked, studying me.
"Watching you play," I answered, knowing it wasan't one he'd accept.
"Yeah," he said, making a face. "That's not going to work for me."
Of course it wasn't.
"You know why," I added with a whisper.
"I need to hear you say it," he said, swallowing. "I've gone too many days without hearing it."
Sighing, I closed my eyes. "I love you," I said, knowing it was the truth and that it didn't change anything. "And I missed you."
"Yeah," he said, "me too.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Luce," he said at last, his voice soft. "what do you want me to do?" He paused, waiting for my response, but I wasn't sure what he was asking, so no response came.
"Please, just tell me," he continued. "Tell me what you want me to say, and do, when it comes to Adriana or any other girl that looks my way, and I'll do it. You want me to fire a spit wad between their eyes? So be it. You want me to flip them off any time any one of them looks my way? You got it. You want me to poke my eyes out so I can't see another one of their suggestive smiles again?" he trailed on, half of his face squishing together. "Well, that would suck, but I'd do it. For you." Cradling my face in his hands again, he leaned forward so his eyes were staring into mine from half a foot away. "Just tell me, baby. What do you want me to do?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Don't let another man, tight wearing fairy or not, help you out of your clothes again," he said, his eyes narrowing just enough to know some scalding emotions were firing through him right now. "If you need help out of so much as a sock, you call me, you got it? That's my job.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Don't stay because you want to. Stay because I want you to.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“How do you feel?” I asked, trying to bring my heart rate down. It wasn’t having any of it.
“How’s your head?”
“My head’s fine,” he said, winding his arms around my back. “It’s my goddamn heart that’s about ready to bust something.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Do you really hate being around me so much now that you'd high tail it away from me when you can barely stand?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“You need more time? Fine. I can do that. I could do anything for you, Luce. But, please, for god's sake, just give me some hope."
A tear skied down my cheek, bleeding into one of my bandages.
"Give me the smallest silver of hope there's still going to be a place for you and me on the other side of this.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Say that again, Tony," Jude warned, his jaw clenched, "and the only thing I'll be throwing at your pinhead again will be my boot."
"What?" Tony said. "Telling the truth about Adriana panting in heat for you?"
"No, shithead," Jude said, notes of anger slipping between his teeth. "Call my girl 'love' again. Shes's mine. I get to call her that. Not some pissant jerk-off with a big mouth.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“His personality gets a suck’s ass,” Tony continued, nudging the K named kicker. “So why, in all things unfair and unholy, does he get all the good ones lining up outside his door?”
Jude leaned forward. “I can give you an eight inch explanation, Rufello.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Yeah,” Thomas said, “if the dude almost beat my ass for helping you out of a corset, he will murder me on the spot when he sees our modern interpretation of the ‘Rape of Persephone’.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“And you," Jude said, stepping forward and putting his finger in Tony's face. "Don't you ever try to give something of yours to put on her body." The muscles just below Jude's neck were sticking out like shark fins he was so tense. "Or I'm never throwing another ball your way. Got that?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.”
― Abbi Glines, Forever Too Far

“I’m not ever letting your sexy ass get too far away from me again.”
“How far is too far?” I asked.
“It’s all too far. I want you right here beside me… forever.”
― Abbi Glines, Forever Too Far

“This sweet, determined, sexy-as-hell blonde walked into my life and gave me a reason to live.”
― Abbi Glines, Forever Too Far

“I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.”
― Abbi Glines, Forever Too Far

“Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.”
― Abbi Glines, Forever Too Far