Fabiola > Fabiola's Quotes

“There is nothing fearless about me. I am scared every day. I fear the wide world and the way it stares at me and sneers at me and whispers about me when it thinks I cannot hear. I fear a life of half measures, full of shadows of emotions and hints of possibilities and a thousand things I might have had if only I’d reached a bit farther.”
― Sarah MacLean, Brazen and the Beast

“This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn't broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn't change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn't feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“El miedo aprenderá a temerme”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

“For all the girls with curves... May you love them, may you rock them, and may you find the lucky bastard that appreciates them.”
― Alexa Riley, PS... You’re Mine

“Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.

I will either find a way or make one.”
― Kendall Ryan, Unravel Me

“There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“I didn’t love you,” he says. “At least, I didn’t know it. I thought you were—lovely, and honest, and the only wife I could possibly respect. But you were right, I didn’t love you. I just thought you were an escape. And then I lost you. These past four days, when I thought you gone forever? Every book I read, I wondered what you’d think of it. Every idea I had, I wanted to ask your opinion. Every breath I took, I listened for your breathing beside me. Then I knew what you meant to me, and what you could have been to me. And then I fell in love with you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes

“You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m seeing.
“You have my heart.” And he waves toward the room.
“And here are the flowers,” I whisper, completing his sentence. “Christian, it’s lovely.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“Fortune was a heartless witch in perpetual anticipation of her monthly courses.”
― Tessa Dare, The Duchess Deal

“Because,” he said, “I like to know the names of the people I despise. I keep them in a little book and pore over it from time to time, whilst sipping brandy and indulging in throaty, ominous laughter.”
― Tessa Dare, The Duchess Deal

“Most of the time, a girl needed to rescue herself.”
― Tessa Dare, The Duchess Deal

“You want to see compassion? Fine." I take the hand pressed against my shoulders and kiss his knuckles. "I've now kissed the hand of my mother's killer."
Before he has time to react to my chaste kiss, I bring my other hand up and slap him. His head whips to the side.
"I'm also a vindictive bitch," I say.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Dies

“He still doesn’t seem to understand that repairing that which he broke doesn’t make it new again. It makes it scarred”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Dies

“I'm a recovering monster that cares about another soulless creature.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of All that Dies

“We’ve been working on this for a week,” he continues, “and we’ve made no progress. Who do I have to kill to make things happen?” If only the psycho were joking.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of Traitors

“I don’t want her to see the man I’ve become. I don’t want to fall for her all over again. It took decades for the pain of her absence to dull.
Here my wife’s safe. And so is my heart.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of Traitors

“I love this broken, broken creature, and damn him to the pits of hell for making me feel it when I should hate him all over again.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Queen of Traitors

“Don’t steal anything from the past or borrow anything from the future. Pay your dues today. That’s living life.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Epoch

“I think a part of you will be mine to love in every life.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Epoch

“What if some people are meant to pass through our lives instead of walking along beside us?”
― Jewel E. Ann, Epoch

“Swayze, you’re everything. The stars and the earth. The sun of a million lifetimes. You’re the girl I fell in love with. You’re the woman I want to love. You’re Morgan’s every smile. You’re my peace of mind. My salvation. You’re beautiful beyond words. Smart. Sexy. Just … everything. Except … mine.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Epoch

“I love you.” I let my emotions out. It’s true. I love him. Not like a lover. Not like a best friend—I don’t remember us that way. Not like a father. It’s hard to describe. I simply love him like Nate. And maybe the best way to describe it is to say that I love him like a piece of myself.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Epoch

“Griffin doesn’t send me a dozen roses on my birthday. He hands me a single petal every day. Sometimes it’s a look. Sometimes it’s a whisper. And sometimes it’s opening my door, helping me out, and holding my hand all the way to the top of the steps.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Epoch

“Could you say something, please? When a guy tells a girl he loves her, he doesn’t want silence in response. Was I too late? Are you over me?”

“Are you wearing the underwear I got you?”

Laughter cracked out of him. “Sometimes, the way your mind works is a complete mystery to me.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“I can't believe I have to say this. You there, dashing male secretary! Drop the frying pan.”
― Ilona Andrews, Wildfire

“Waiting. Not waiting. One lover. A hundred lovers. There should be no judgement either way. A woman is not defined by what she does or doesn‘t do in the bedroom.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“All the time in the world is worth nothing if I don't get to spend it with you.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us