“I’ve missed you so much,” I whisper as he kisses my neck. “Even when I didn’t know you, my soul still missed you.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“In another life we are happy,” I murmur, squeezing my eyes shut. “In another life we grow old together.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“For a brief second I remember everything about who and what I used to be. But most of all, I remember Harlin. And I wonder how he’ll find me if I’m someone else.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“I’m going to kick his ass for touching you,” he growls. “And for wrecking my bike.”
“I’m glad I came first in that sentence.”
“Baby, you always come first.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Are you sure this is okay?” he asks. “I mean, did your dad really invite the handsome stranger who’s dating his daughter to sleep on the couch?”
“I like how you added in the ‘handsome.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Harlin needs you,” she whispers. “He loves you too much.”
I smile a little. “I know. But I like that about him.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“In my hand I hold a small guardian angel figurine set in a smooth, clear
stone. It’s beautiful, a promise of love. Of forever.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“How do you get places?”
“I go around saving attractive girls,” he says. “Obviously.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“It’s nice to meet you, Elise,” he says, a slow, sexy smile pulling at his lips. “I’m Harlin.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“I’ll go to church if you cut my hair tomorrow. But then you have to let me paint your portrait sometime.”
“You paint?” I’m honestly surprised.
“I haven’t in a long time,” he says. “But I find you inspiring.”
“I’d be interested to see your work,” I say. “Wait, you don’t mean nude or anything, right?”
He laughs. “No. You’ll be fully clothed.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Thought you said this was just dinner?”
Abe opens the glass door and holds it for me. As I pass by him, he lowers his head so that his voice is close to my ear. “It’s never just dinner.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Is it wrong that I’m wishing for congestive heart failure now?” he asks through the food.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Although it’s always nice to make new friends.”
“Who are mutually attracted?”
“That’s a bonus.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“How did my relatively inexperienced dating life suddenly become so complicated?”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Other than the fact that I’m entirely sick of Mexican food, Abe might be in there. And he might accidentally-on-purpose drop a plate of enchiladas into Harlin’s lap if we’re together.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“What can I say? You bring out the devil in me.”
“That’s not a comforting thing to tell a pastor’s daughter,”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“That was a nice save,” Harlin says, sounding amused. “So detailed. Like a nurse.”
“Shut up, Harlin,” I say, trying not to smile. “I didn’t hear you offer anything better.”
“You sure you didn’t want to tell him we were playing doctor? That might have sounded more believable.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Sorry,” I say to my father. “Hope we didn’t wake you. After last night, I wanted to check on Harlin’s arm.”
He tilts his head like he is absolutely sure I’m lying. “And how is his arm, Elise?” he asks.
“Uh . . . better?”
My father stands motionless for a second, and then he shakes his head and walks into the kitchen. I hear the clink of cups, and then the running of water for the coffeepot.
“That was a nice save,” Harlin says, sounding amused. “So detailed. Like a nurse.”
“Shut up, Harlin,” I say, trying not to smile. “I didn’t hear you offer anything better.”
“You sure you didn’t want to tell him we were playing doctor? That might have sounded more believable.”
I turn quickly and swat at him. He laughs, dodging my swing, and catches my hand. “I would tackle you right here,” he says, leaning close. “Pin you and kiss you. But with the luck we have in your house, someone will walk in. And then what will you tell them?” he whispers. “That you were giving me CPR?”
“Stop!” I slap his shoulder again.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Because, worst of all, I remember every second of what it was like to lose my life.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“To fall in love with him even though I was right here?”
“You’re not really my type, Abe,” I say.
“I’m too handsome?” He grins.
“Too evil.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“How many times would you do it, you think? How many times would you sacrifice yourself for good?”
“Every time,” I answer automatically.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“I realize then that I’m filled with memories, both mine and Charlotte’s. It’s like I’ve lived one full life and not two separate ones.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Your time for crossing is over. Now you must help Harlin find the Forgotten and lead them to their destinies. And, of course, extinguish the Shadows where you can.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Well then, Elise,” Marceline says, using my name for the first time since I’ve known her. “I guess it’s time for you to wake up.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“There is still so much I want to know, want to ask. But before I can say anything else, the world stops. There’s silence around me.
I wait a beat, and when I finally sit up, I find Harlin waiting for me—ready to start again.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“Harlin smiles softly and steps up, wrapping his arms around me as he brings his lips to my ear. I close my eyes. "I hate every second I'm away from you," he says. "Don't ever doubt that." And then he kisses me.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“I’m hopeful that the new job I’m starting today at Santo’s Restaurant will not only get me paid, but will also help me meet some quality people. Or I’ll just eat a lot of chimichangas. I’ll be all right either way.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“In my head I hear a whisper, or rather the memory of a whisper. The familiar voice is soft, and it warms me from the inside out as it murmurs a name: Charlotte.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
“I try to tell myself he’s probably a teddy bear on the inside. But I’m pretty sure that’s not true.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from A Want So Wicked
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“Nobody wants to sit in a theatre and watch petty arguing and boring sex scenes (ahem, Jason Segal and Emily Blunt).”
― Jodie Beau, quote from The Good Life
“The world was full of beauty.
She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane.
Usually, though, by miles.
She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that.
But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it.
To cross that membrane, and feel alive.”
― Sara Zarr, quote from The Lucy Variations
“How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.”
― Camilla Gibb, quote from Sweetness in the Belly
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ... in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest.”
― John Maynard Keynes, quote from The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
“Bond slowly, wearily bent his head and looked at the ground between his spread hands. It was the girl, Tilly. She was watching the buildings below. She had a rifle – a rifle that must have been among the innocent golf clubs – ready to fire on them. Damn and blast the silly bitch!”
― Ian Fleming, quote from Goldfinger
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