Jaime Rodriguez > Jaime's Quotes

“Crown made my belly flutter even when I begged it to stop.
Until he opened his mouth.
When Crown opened his mouth, I wanted to bust him over the head with a lasagna pan.”
― Lila Felix, Dethroning Crown

“Nothing's wrong. But a lot is right.”
― Lila Felix, How It Rolls

“My seven a.m. teacher was from France. And he spoke Frenglish. Sometimes it was funny, but when he announced which chapters we should study and the names came out in English, but the chapter numbers came out in French, I wanted to strangle the sacre bleu out of him.”
― Lila Felix, How It Rolls

“...he was such an ass—I mean if he was any more of an ass, he’d be saddled and ridden in a small pueblo in Mexico.
--Ashland”
― Lila Felix, AnguiSH

“Nellie, when are you going to straighten up?”

“Never Mom, never.”
― Lila Felix, Love and Skate

“I want to wear flip-flops for the rest of my life.  They’re not just mere footwear.  They can act as makeshift fly swatters, they clap for you when your hands are tired.  And once I saw a lady take off her flop and swat her kid on the butt.  Yeah, that was probably going to be me one day.  ‘The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
― Lila Felix, Love and Skate: Books 1-5, The Complete Series

“It was here in the darkness of night and warmth of my bed that I made my confession, inside myself and silently to her.  I loved her.  It was too fast, too rushed, too new, but I didn’t care.  I loved her.”
― Lila Felix, How It Rolls

“It’s not often for me that reality is better than fantasy.  This is one of those times.  Reed next to me, in my bed, breathing against my chest.  She was the Diane Court to my Lloyed Dobler.”
― Lila Felix, How It Rolls

“I see a future when I look at you. I see hope for something more. I see a glimmer where there was only darkness. I will be your hiding place, you don’t have to hide by yourself—just keep being my light. As long as I can see the light, I know I can make it.”
― Lila Felix, Sparrows for Free

“Love isn’t crazy. Love isn’t a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice—a choice to make another person’s happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.”
― Lila Felix, Doves For Sale

“Sometimes we don’t know how heavily we bleed until our skin is peeled back.”
― Lila Felix, Dethroning Crown

“I’m glad you’re here, Lila,” he said. “I hope you feel that way, too.”
Devon stared at me, a mix of emotions swirling through his eyes. I saw everything I had that first day at the Razzle Dazzle—the guilt, grief, sorrow, and all the other burdens he carried in his heart.
And then there was that hot spark, a little darker and dimmer than before, but still burning all the same.
“Me too,” I said.
Devon smiled, and that spark brightened just for a moment, and I felt an answering bit of warmth stir in my own heart. I nodded at him, and we both went back to our food, things a little less tense between us. A few seconds later, we were laughing, along with Oscar, as Mo and Felix talked over each other nonstop.
Somewhere between those laughs and all the others that morning, I realized something.
My home. My friends. My Family.
Sometimes, good things come in threes.”
― Jennifer Estep, Cold Burn of Magic

“Sometimes a soul gets pieced together wrong. But you can’t just fix it—it has to get torn apart and put back the right way.”
― Lila Felix, Dethroning Crown

“She calls me 'bird boy' and Hawkeye every time she gets a chance. Last year she bought me a bow and arrow for my birthday and told me it was for when the Avengers were called into action.”
― Lila Felix, How It Rolls

“You walked into my life and made it a hundred times better, honey.”
― Lila Felix, Hoax

“I’m here Corinne. I’m here waiting for you to realize that helping you, listening to you, sitting in silence with you, holding you while you cry, kissing you until you can’t think straight—I’m honored to be the one who does those things for you. I’m privileged to hear the words ‘I love you’ from your mouth and have them directed at me. But if you don’t need me, then you don’t need me. So this is me telling you that if you find that you do need me, want me, whatever, it’s your turn. Come find me. I love you. And not just today or tomorrow—I will love you always.”
― Lila Felix, Hoax

“One way or the other, come back to me, in a month, or a year, when you’re old, a haunt in my dreams, an invasion of my sanity, make a way to come back.”
― Lila Felix, How It Rolls