Laura > Laura's Quotes

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can't refuse anything and can't even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Dark Citadel

“Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it’s both at once.”
― Megan Hart, Broken

“Scars are proof we can can survive”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“Sometimes, you turn back.
Sometimes, you walk away.
And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work.
Whatever it takes. ”
― Megan Hart, Switch

“But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.”
― Megan Hart, Broken

“Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.”
― Megan Hart, Broken

“The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.”
― Megan Hart, Broken

“When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect
and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.”
― Megan Hart, Naked

“We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces?”
― Megan Hart, Broken

“A woman's orgasm is such a fragile thing, dependant as much upon her mind as on her clitoris.”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“And you’re not afraid of it ending?”

“Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“His name is Spanks for Nothing. It’s destiny. We belong together.” -Nora”
― Tiffany Reisz

“I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's horror.

Horror? Really?

Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“Kid, Søren could eat you for breakfast and not even need to chew. Don’t ever fuck with a sadist, Wesley. For Søren, torture’s just foreplay.”
“Why did you stay with him?” he’d whispered.
Nora had grinned at him, and she saw a new fear in Wesley’s sweet brown eyes.
“I like foreplay.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“No safe word can protect the heart.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Angel

“We can only sacrifice so much of ourselves in a relationship before there's nothing left to love or be loved.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“Hey, bad girl,” came the deep, sexy voice of The Griffin himself. “Can’t believe the Pope let
you out of the Vatican.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Angel

“Love is an open wound that you hope never heals.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Angel

“S&M is as psychological as it is physical and sexual, Zach. Imagine being as deep inside a woman’s mind as you are inside her body.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“Was there any woman in the world quite like Nora? He was so glad she existed; even more glad there was only one of her.”
― Tiffany Reisz