J > J's Quotes

“The ocean is scary . . . but it is beautiful,” he says into my ear.
He clearly sees something I’m not seeing.
“I guess.”
“You stubborn woman.” He chuckles, and his hands slide from my waist to the railing, and his front presses against my back. “Terrifying things can be beautiful, you know. Trust me on that one.”
― Cassie Mae, The Real Thing

“Life is like a boxing match. Defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Will

“Babe.” “Babe?” “Babe.” “Is that your response?” I asked. “No, my response is, babe, shut up and sleep but I already said that so I condensed it to just babe ‘cause that’s easier to say and might not piss you off.” “I can’t read all that in babe, Jake.” “You’ll learn to read my babes.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Will

“It hit him in that moment in a way he knew he’d never forget that he could take that hand and she could lead him anywhere. Just tip up her lips, turn those eyes to him and hold out her hand and he’d go straight to hell with her and do it smiling.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Will

“Small-minded fools are everywhere and those with the courage to be who they are often have to suffer them.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Will

“You’re so the fucking bomb, you’d level Hiroshima again if you visited.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Will

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Maxon lowered his lips to mine and gave me the faintest whisper of a kiss.

Something about the tentativeness of it made me feel beautiful. Without a word, I could understand how excited he was to have this moment, but then afraid at the same time. And deeper than any of that, I sensed that he adored me.

So this is what it felt like to be a lady.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I couldn’t help but
notice it was always this way. At state events or important dinners, Mom was beside Dad or situated
right behind him. But when they were just husband and wife—not king and queen—he followed her
everywhere.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I don't care what you think you need.”
― Cora Carmack, Finding It

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Cora Carmack, Finding It

“The best parts of life are the things we can’t plan. And it’s a lot harder to find happiness if you’re only searching in one place. Sometimes, you just have to throw away the map. Admit that you don’t know where you’re going and stop pressuring yourself to figure it out. Besides . . . a map is a life someone else already lived. It’s more fun to make your own.”
― Cora Carmack, Finding It

“Girls dress for others. Women dress for themselves.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“The world has plans for you, baby. Whether you’re ready or not. You can be either a driver or a passenger.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“Bite me, hit me, scream at me. I don't care. I want to feel it. Fucking hurt me, K.C. Let me see you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“We want a house, a car, a fancy f*cking vacation, and prestige. So what do we do? We go to school and we get jobs we hate to pay for the things we want. We deal with people we don't like and waste years of our lives sitting in stark fluorescent-lit rooms and listening to coworkers who bore us so we can pay for a small amount of precious time to enjoy what makes us happy, to achieve a fraction of our lives just feeling as if it was all worth it. We sacrifice to earn.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“You're really hitting on me? After we just met in jail?"
"Is it working?”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“Except I’m starting to think that the idea of “belonging” anywhere is false. We go through our whole lives thinking that we belong in one place and not in another. We think certain ideas and actions have to be relegated to the tiny little boxes we place them in. What if we just react instead? What if we take whatever the world gives us and instead of focusing on what it isn’t, we enjoy what it is?”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“I’m figuring out what I want by trial and error, and maybe that’s not the best way, but it’s all I’ve got. All I know is that I need to be my own person, someone shaped by my desire, not fear of disappointing the people who are supposed to love me.”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“There's a fine line between broody and potential sociopath. Right now you're walking the line.”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“He might not have a good head on his shoulders, but he has good shoulders, so that's close, right?”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are...those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.”
― Cora Carmack, All Broke Down

“I’m doing what I do well,” he said, tugging me nearer. “Taking care of my Turtle.”
― Christina Lee, Whisper to Me

“Fuck, Rach.” His voice sounded tortured as he grabbed on to the back of my head and tugged me closer to him. “I never left you. Never.”
― Christina Lee, Whisper to Me

“I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me.

When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles.

"Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“Still I pulled her into a hug, because I knew she let me off the hook on purpose and yeah, I'm a guy and I love my mom. So shoot me. I'm man enough to hug her without feeling like a mama's boy.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“Our lips moved together perfectly. A perfect match. Because we had skills like that.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants