Hemen > Hemen's Quotes

“Boom, boom, fucking boom, Da. I'm done for...”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“¨I think I need you for keeps.¨
¨I think I need you for keeps, too.¨”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“If drugs were to Joey Lynch what Claire Biggs was to me, then there was no amount of rehab that could sway me to kick the habit. Because she was the habit of my lifetime.”
― Chloe Walsh, Taming 7

“Gibsie belonged to the rest of the world. Gerard belonged just to me.”
― Chloe Walsh, Taming 7

“It’s all good, though. Some of the best things in life aren’t meant to last forever. That’s why we cherish them when they happen. Like your favorite chocolate in a box. Or shooting stars. We don’t refuse to eat the sweet because once we do, it’ll be gone, or stop looking at the stars after one shoots by. We enjoy the moment because we know it’s worth living in.”
― Chloe Walsh, Taming 7

“You’re the best friend I’ve ever had, and I love the fucking bones of you, ya mad eejit.” He choked out a pained laugh. “And if you think this is going to chase me off then you’ve another thing coming, fucker, because I’m never leaving you. Do ya hear me? Because you’re my Gibs.”
― Chloe Walsh, Taming 7

“He had darkness in his life and so much pain, but he kept the most beautiful sunny disposition about him. It was incredibly humbling to be around the boy. To know all he had endured in his short life and that he still woke up with a smile on his face in the morning.”
― Chloe Walsh, Taming 7

“Stay out of trouble out there, okay?”
I nodded slowly. “I’ll try my best.”
“Make sure you do,” she laughed. “Because I’ve put an awful lot of effort into saving you, six.”
― Chloe Walsh, Saving 6

“Darren got open-palmed slaps. I got closed-fist punches.”
― Chloe Walsh, Saving 6

“I said no, Aoife."
"You can't tell me what to do, Joe," I growled, feeling a combination of drunk and dizzy. "You don't own me."
"Well, that's bad fucking luck on my account, because you sure as shit own me!"
Drunk or not, his words hit me like a wrecking ball to the chest.
Feeling the air whoosh from my lungs, I glared up at him, feeling a torrent of emotions crashing through me. "Why would you say that to me?"
"Because it's the truth."
"Since when?"
"Since I was twelve.”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“Because when you hurt, I hurt. When you burn, I go down in flames with you. We’re entwined, Joe. We’re mirrors. Don’t you get that by now?”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“Actually, we decided to name our son after the man who raised the both of us,” I confirmed quietly. “Because, let’s face it, the only man I ever had to show me the way was your husband.”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“We want to keep you!” his wife blurted out, causing John to drop his head in his hands and groan. “All five of you,” she continued, hurrying over to the island and catching ahold of my hand. “Especially you.” She smiled down at me. “I think I want you the most.”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“I'm all in, Shannon. Scars and all. Fucked up father and all.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“We're all a little fractured.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“said, “Je veux lécher la chatte de ma copine.” I frowned. “What?” Johnny grinned devilishly. “I said, je veux être à l’intérieur de toi.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“Promises made, promises broken - the Lynch family motto.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me