Cristina > Cristina's Quotes

“I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“...You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends." His fingers curl around mine. "That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one's letting me in on the secret.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“...The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“That’s how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they’ll never see. But right then I was too stuck in the moment, in the visceral pleasure of it all.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“The funny thing was that his kiss had felt like fucking me, and his fucking me felt like being kissed, everywhere, every bit of my body unbearably warm and buzzing.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“The way we looked at each other was more intimate than a kiss could have been”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I think that lesson was the most important: that none of us actually grow up. We get bigger, and older, but put of us always retains that small rabbit heart, trembling furiously, secretively, with wonder and fear. There's no irony in it. No semantics or subtext. Only red blood and green grass and silver stars”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“He embraced me, and said into my ear, 'I'm going to fuck the shit out of you.'
I lost my breath.
It was crude, it was unexpected, and it set me on fucking fire.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I love you, I thought. If I was the only person truly alive that night, it was because of you. You made the world come alive for me and I love you, I love you, I love you.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I'm also thinking the night I met you was like someone handed me a winning lottery ticket and said, 'You can only have it if you don't tell anyone.'"
He gave me a sad smile. "I feel like that too."
"Do you start to wonder if it's even real?"
"All the time. Like maybe I made you up on that rollercoaster.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“You got a girl who’s worth it … you spoil her rotten. You let her know she’s precious, not convince her of that shit, because it’s not about convincing. It’s about understanding it’s just fuckin’ true.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“Toasted almond pancakes. Sweet soft 'okays'. Makin' me laugh more in a few weeks than I have in decades. 'Yes, Daddys' I feel in my dick. The first voicemail you left me, babe. I saved it and I listen to it once a day. If I lose focus, I see you on your back, knees high, legs wide, offering your sweet, wet pussy to me. You smile at me in bed every time you wander outta my bedroom in my shirts, my tees, or your work clothes and honest to Christ, it sets me up for the day. And no matter what shit goes down, I get through it knowin' whichever bed I climb into at night, you're in it ready to snuggle into me or give me what I wanna take. Your girl, a headache. You, never. And in a life that's been full of headaches, babe, having that, there is no price tag. You gotta get it and do it fuckin' now that there's a lotta different kinds of give and take. And you give as good as you get, baby, trust me.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“We haven't been together very long," I reminded him.
"You love me and I love you. How long does that need to be?"
Knight and Anya Gage”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“My mother named me Knight because she needed one.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“Anya, you aren’t getting’ this but two weeks ago when you walked into my bedroom to use my phone, the life you been livin’ which isn’t all that good got better. A fuckuva lot better. Because I’m gonna make it that way. And in return, I’m gonna ask very little of you. And right now, all I’m askin’ is for you to hang here until I come home so I can spent more time with you since I probably not gonna see you again for another week.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“Don’t try to bullshit me or yourself about the fact that you don’t wanna explore this with me. You want it or you wouldn’t be here. I get you fighting it. I’m just tellin’ you, you are not gonna win.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“Wars fought over a face like this," he murmured... "A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it..."
Oh.
My.
God.
"Knight," I breathed.
"You are not walkin' away from me.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“Eyes to me.” “I need time,” I told the floor. “Look… at… your… man,” he growled, and, my heart beating wild in my chest, my eyes went to him.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“You cool with this shit?” “It’s a shock, I will admit. But you told me if I hear shit, I should come to you and you’d explain. You explained and you did it thoroughly. But bottom line, I’m the woman for you, Knight. I was made for you, just as I am. What you don’t get is, you’re the man for me just as you are. I get that, honey. And I got it a while ago.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“I didn’t need anyone to take care of me, but I did want someone to love me enough to try.”
― Tina Reber, Love Unscripted

“Don't lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn't care about losing you.”
― K. Bromberg, Fueled

“I might not be able to tell you the things you need to hear with the traditional words you need to hear them in, but I swear to God, Rylee, I will try. And if I can’t, then I’ll show you. I’ll show you with everything I have—anything it takes—where your place is in my life,” he murmurs to me, shattering every last form of protection I have guarding my heart. He just stole it completely.”
― K. Bromberg, Fueled

“Every fucking piece of me. Game over baby. She’s my motherfucking checkered flag.”
― K. Bromberg, Fueled

“I’m fucking drowning in her, and I’m not even sure I want to come up for air.”
― K. Bromberg, Fueled

“I want to be your motherfucking checkered flag, Rylee. Your pace car to lead you through tough times, your pit stop when you need a break, your start line, your finish line, your goddamn victory lane.”
― K. Bromberg, Crashed