Ashima > Ashima's Quotes

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“In that moment, I finally figured out what kind of handsome he was. He was fiction-handsome. Romance novel handsome; but not the clean-cut (billionaire) alpha male or even the tattooed (billionaire) bad boy archetype. He was the Scottish highlander, Viking conqueror, bodice-ripper historical romance kind of handsome; an unshaven, lion wrestling, mountain man recluse, toss you over his shoulder and plunder your goodies kind of handsome. He was both scary and swoony. I wanted to braid his beard. I also wanted to run away.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent of saying that I dressed like a librarian with a propensity of fuckmeboots.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“With you there are only two distances that matter:  Here. Not here. You are not here.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“I decided, as I succumbed to sleep, that men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It’s evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation.”
― Penny Reid, Attraction

“If we were in Victorian England I would have called him dashing;but, since we lived in the 21st century I would have to settle for the wordier GQ model hot.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“have you ever seen someone and thought to yourself, Whoa, he’s hot! I’d like to screw his brains out. And then, you talk to the guy and realize someone already has?”
― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard

“I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“Proposing is like giving someone your dick and a sharp knife, then waiting to see what they do next.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Marries Human

“If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“I don’t want a beautiful week with you. I want a beautiful lifetime.”
― Penny Reid, Capture

“We fought over the bill when it came. By fought I mean: I insisted loudly on paying half and he responded with beleaguered silence. Instead of discussing it or attempting to engage in my one-sided conversation, he wordlessly put his credit card in the holder; he kept it carefully out of my reach as I continued to list all the reasons we should split the check, not the least of which was that we’d agreed earlier that this was not a date,
then handed it stealthily to the waiter as he passed. I was still oblivious, making my case, when Quinn signed the receipt.“Wait- what are you doing?” I looked from him to the paper slip.Silence. Scribble. Silence. “Did you just sign that? Was that the check?” My voiced hitched, my eyes wide with pseudo outrage. He glanced up at me, something like mock innocence lighting his features, and said, “I’m sorry. Did you want to split that?”
― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human

“Fire burns blue and hot.
Its fair light blinds me not.
Smell of smoke is satisfying, tastes nourishing to my tongue.
I think fire ageless, never old, and yet no longer young.
Morning coals are cool: daylight leaves me blind.
I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“I don’t like to judge people.

I love it.

Writing people completely off was liberating”
― Penny Reid, Beard Science

“Parker, what are you doing?” “Making a funny face in an effort to make you stop staring at me like I murdered your beloved goldfish.”
― Penny Reid, Attraction

“Does he give you zings in your things?”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“I hadn’t seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn’t stopped hurling itself against my ribs—at odd times, day or night—for a week.”
― Penny Reid, Beard Science

“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

“He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and form. No, the stranger moved with a languorous arrogance of a man more settled into his skin. A sort of graceful conceit that suggested entitlement.”
― Vivienne Lorret, Winning Miss Wakefield

“I cannot guarantee my attendance tomorrow morning," Merribeth said in all seriousness. "I distinctly heard my coverlet and pillow conspiring to hold me captive until luncheon. I fear no amount of bravery will save me.”
― Vivienne Lorret, Winning Miss Wakefield

“We are all made of flesh and stars, but we all become dust in the end. Best to shine while you can.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Sometimes I think it's best to say nothing at all, silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“People think that good and bad are opposites but they're wrong, they're just mirror images of one another in broken glass.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Stars cannot shine without darkness.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Hope is all that remains when concrete, tangible facts have scattered.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways