Kristen Shepard

“Love isn’t a quilt. Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves.”
― Lauren Blakely, The Thrill of It

“All I hope is that you can someday know that love doesn’t have to be a brutal, bitter, power game. Love can be the ugly beautiful.”
― Lauren Blakely, The Thrill of It

“You just say it. That’s how you say something that’s hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words,” she says emphatically, as if she’s delivering an impassioned speech.”
― Lauren Blakely, The Thrill of It

“Maybe we just need to find the daring in the every day,” he says,”
― Lauren Blakely, The Thrill of It