Dena Akbar > Dena's Quotes

“Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for.”
― Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married

“All the vital components that make a relationship successful, without any of the emotional messiness to drag it down. It's about respect, caring, and commitment. Shared goals and compatible priorities. It's about treating marriage like a partnership instead of some romantic fantasy. It's about two people liking each other.”
― Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married

“And then he gave her a kiss that was meant to be the first of its kind, but tasted so familiar there was no denying those undercurrents of love had been there all that time... just waiting to be recognized.”
― Mira Lyn Kelly, Waking Up Married

“Yes, sorry, I guess I should have mentioned we were going to a vegetarian restaurant. Do you mind?” he asked. What could she say? She’d worked at Howard Johnson’s. Her kids used to say if Stouffer’s didn’t make it, they didn’t eat it at their house. “I guess I could have a salad. This is like trying to read a foreign language.” She kept turning it back and forth, hoping a page with the word “hamburger” would appear if”
― Suzanne Jenkins, Alice's Summertime Adventure

“What about prayers?’ she said. ‘They mean nothing. It’s a ploy to bring yourself peace when you can’t do anything else.”
― Suzanne Jenkins, The Liberation of Ravenna Morton: A Lost Daughter. A Family Reclaimed. A Legacy Set Free.

“Everything had the potential, she guessed. Propping”
― Suzanne Jenkins, In Memoriam

“Like any southern woman would do. I choose to bury my feelings in carbs. There’s no problem carbs cannot fix.

I can be my awkward, unsophisticated, tongue-tied self, but by god I’ll do it with cheesy carbs in my blood stream.”
― V. Theia, It Was Love

“Even the idea of not being in his life was a big enough pain to steal my breath.”
― V. Theia, It Was Love

“I know what he tasted like now, it’s less than twenty-four hours ago his tongue thrusted down my throat licking my kidneys.”
― V. Theia, It Was Love

“Baby, you could climb on me twenty-four fucking hours a day, wherever I am and I wouldn’t hate it. Understand? Far as you’re concerned you can call my face your throne. Sit the fuck down, my queen.”
― V. Theia, Tracking Luxe

“I’ll make coffee and we can go ahead with not talking about how fucking spectacular you are when you come.”
― V. Theia, It Was Love

“I’m telling you, men make women stupid. What with their gorgeous dicks and stupid, sexy crooked, villainous smiles and good smelling necks. All of them make us stupid at one time or another.”
― V. Theia, It Was Always Love

“He was the type of guy who pushed you into a room, locked the door and then did hot groping, a lot of dirty talk of everything he wanted to do to you, before doing them three or four times. No restrictions, just mind-blown, terribly wicked delicious things.”
― V. Theia, Dirty Salvation

“Neither. I was attracted to him because he’s hot. Though, I stayed with him because he’s fucking awesome in bed.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“I’m drawn to you, Alayna. Not because I want to hurt you or make you feel a certain way, but because you’re beautiful and sexy and smart and, yes, a little crazy, maybe, but you’re not broken. And that makes me hopeful. For me.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“I will continue to seduce you. I’m a man who gets what he wants. And I want you.”
― Laurelin Paige, Fixed on You

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“All I knew was that, for the first time since she and I were fourteen years old, I was letting my heart move on.”
― D.L. Blade, The Dark Underworld

“I’m letting you go,” I said. “Thank you. Like I said, I’ll be safe.” I shook my head. “No, I mean, I’m letting you go.”
― D.L. Blade, The Dark Underworld

“The kiss was passionate, loving, and filled with centuries of undying love.”
― D.L. Blade, The Dark Underworld

“Whoever said black cats were bad luck had no idea of the incredible joy they could bring.”
― Mae Clair, Food For Poe

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I want you to say it. ‘I am so beautiful and sexy that I make Dmitri come in his dreams for me.’ Say it.” He hissed in her ear.”
― Fiona Murphy, His Hostile Takeover

“I want our baby so badly it’s all I’ve thought of. I’ve dreamed of him for months. I can’t wait to hold our son and watch him grow up to be as good of a man as his father.”
― Fiona Murphy, His For More Than One Night

“Whatever he needed, she wanted to give it to him, because she knew he would always take care of her, as he had from the beginning.”
― Fiona Murphy, Rafael's Woman

“She refused to die like an animal locked in a cage. Like a girl with nothing to save her name. Better to die by the sword. Better to die at the mercy of the nightbeasts. To die in the night air. Free.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist