Mariana > Mariana's Quotes

“God deliver me from the sin o’ fornication,” Spence gasped, clutching at the sheets of blood that poured from the deep gash in his head. “Have the bastards killed me?”
― Marsha Canham, Across A Moonlit Sea

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
― Victoria Holt

“Only lawlessness and chaos can be born out of lawlessness and chaos.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“We don't fit in, you and me," he said. "We're both oddities no one knows what to do with. But we fit together." He took her hand, pressed her palm to his, then laced their fingers through each other's. "We fit.”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

“Ian closed his eyes. Beth watched emotions flicker across his face, the uncertainty, the stubbornness, the raw pain he’d lived with for so long. He didn’t always know how to express his emotions, but that didn’t mean he didn’t feel them deeply.
When Ian slowly opened his eyes, he guided his gaze directly to Beth’s. His golden eyes shimmered and sparkled, pupils ringed with green. He held her gaze steadily, not blinking, or shifting away.
“I love you,” he said.
Beth caught her breath, and sudden tears blurred her vision.
“Love you,” Ian repeated. His gaze bore into hers harder than Hart’s ever could hope to. “Love you, love you, love you, love you, love you, love you…”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

“There’s no such thing as mostly. It’s either true or it ain’t.”
― Lorraine Heath, Always to Remember

“That scent of spring, earth, man, life. As he cupped the sides of my face, I realized this was how a kiss should have felt.”
― Lori Brighton, The Chosen Ones: The Chosen Ones

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

“I’m just being honest.  The truth is – you’ll be hard pressed to find a guy who doesn’t think it’s weird that you’re still a virgin at thirty.  That isn’t going to help your self-confidence or improve your non-existent dating skills. ”
― Ramona Gray, The Escort

“Your pussy was made for my cock and only mine.” ”
― Ramona Gray, The Escort

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“If you're man enough to fuck someone, be man enough to take responsibility for the results.”
― Suzanne Enoch

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“A friend said to me, “Hey you need to grow a pair. Grow a pair, Bro.” It’s when someone calls you weak, but they associate it with a lack of testicles. Which is weird, because testicles are the most sensitive things in the world. If you suddenly just grew a pair, you’d be a lot more vulnerable. If you want to be tough, you should lose a pair. If you want to be real tough, you should grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”
― Sheng Wang

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.”
― Lori Brighton, The Mind Readers

“The man sitting across from me at the cafe was thinking about murdering his wife.
He imagined stabbing her and pretending like it was a robbery. Or perhaps, he thought, he'd take her hiking, push her off a cliff and say it was an accident; that she'd slipped. I wanted to tell him it wouldn't work, that in those CSI shows on T.V. they always suspected the husband first.”
― Lori Brighton, The Mind Readers

“But the guy sitting at the table next to me who'd been imagining killing his wife and was now imagining seducing me wasn't the problem. No, it was the guy sitting across from me, the man with the bright orange hunting cap pulled low over his eyes, the guy waiting for the right moment to rob the cafe...he was the one who worried me.”
― Lori Brighton, The Mind Readers

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterate--or desperately gullible--or--"
"French," said Mr Carsington.”
― Loretta Chase, Mr. Impossible

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Oh, Isabella, what’s wrong with me? I believe I’m actually jealous of . . . of myself!” “Then”
― Mia Marlowe, How To Vex a Viscount

“I don’t want you to be like other men.  I want you to be who you are.  And when I look at you, I see a caring and tender man who only wants the best for others.  When we make love, that’s the person I’m going to be with.” Then”
― Ruth Ann Nordin, The Accidental Mail Order Bride

“Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her”
― Catherine Spangler, Shadow Fires

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“My reason, Raz i’Syul Arro, is that if you struck out to eliminate every person who has ever made poor decisions in their life, you would find yourself alone in an empty world when you were done, with your blade at your own throat.”
― Bryce O'Connor, The Warring Son

“Preach the Gospel, use words when necessary.”
― St. Francis of assisi