Lex Ong > Lex's Quotes

“If you were mine, Iris there would be no doubt what position you’d hold in my life. You’d be center. I’d play you at the five.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Take them back. Your soul is yours. Your heart is yours. Your body is yours. Yours to keep and yours to share.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Sometimes the heart speaks in whispers, and by the time we hear, by the time we listen, it’s too late…”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Hope is the gap between what if and what is, but you have to fill that gap with a lot of hard work. And that’s what we’re going to talk about this week. Hope. Dreams. Work.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Even when you think you’re defeated, dig deeper. Go harder. Press, because there is something worth it on the other side.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Struggle does not make you weak,” she whispers back. “Struggling against those who hold us is what makes us, over time, stronger than they are. Strong enough to fight back. Strong enough to win.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“You’re right.” I loosen my fingers from hers so I can hold her face between both hands. “Going to Houston is my best shot at winning a ring.” “Then why would you—” “But staying here,” I cut in, caressing the fullness of her bottom lip with my thumb. “Staying is my best shot at winning you.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Long Shot

“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“You're not living if you're not regretting.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I don't believe in love."

"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Love is too small, too singular a word for the feeling it’s trying to hold. Just one word isn’t enough, so I want to use them all. Sometimes I think love is the reason language was invented.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“Yes, falling in love requires a leap of faith. But people only jump because they don’t know what the ground looks like.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“At some point, I should probably tell her that my love language is whichever one she wants it to be so she can stop guessing. I’ll make sure that girl feels loved however she needs.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“But I spend a lot of your money.” “Someone needs to.” “And I’m messy. You don’t like messy.” “I like your mess.”  “And I’m needy. I have no idea how to be alone.” “Good. I don’t want you to be alone. I want you to be with me.”  His eyes fall to my throat, watching it work its way through a swallow.  “Come home with me, Blue.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“I mean this in the nicest way possible, but Blue, you’re the most inconvenient thing that’s ever happened to me.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“I’m sorry someone let you believe you were hard to love, because, Blue, it’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done.” I shake my head.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“When did I say that? I’m a romance reader. I have a thing for assholes.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“Touch her and I’ll kill you. Say something that makes her upset and I’ll ruin your life. Look at her inappropriately and I will beat the living shit out of you.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“Love to me was honesty. Being real. Knowing someone's best and worst. Love was a push that said someone believed in you when you didn't.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Challenges were only hard if you went into them expecting not to succeed.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“When you want something bad enough, you can always make it happen.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember