“Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“No one told me you can love someone and still be miserable. How is that possible?”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Le me try to be enough for you.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I love you, but I want to love you enough that I never choose alcohol over you. Not even for a moment. I want to be someone you deserve.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I know what you want, and you don't need to take it. I can give it to you.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I want to live here. In his arms. Where I know it's safe.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“She waltzes into the apartment, her Chanel handbag swinging on her arm like a weapon. Rose frightens children, pets, and even grown males with her icy eyes and chilling glares.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“You're a permanent fixture in my life. You're not going anywhere.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I’m dirty,” I refute, hot tears brimming. “You don’t want me.” His face twists in pain. “I don’t think that. Neither should you.” His lips graze my neck and then find my ear. “Lil, I want you to ask me. I need you to.” He presses his forehead to my temple, gently edging me closer to the mattress, his hands tight on my hips. I continue to struggle for breath. I know what he wants now. He wants this to be real. So do I. “Help me,” I say, breathlessly.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“He's my drug that I gladly consume.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Just repeat this phrase whenever you feel the urge to jump some other guy’s bones.”
His mouth brushes my ear. “Loren Hale fucks better.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“The fear of losing each other is always stronger than the pain we cause.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I sincerely think that Connor is asexual. Like a sponge. He probably wouldn't even notice if you hit on him.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“No means no. I don’t care when you say it, Lily. Once it’s out there, it’s out there. Any halfway decent guy would have backed off.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I hate that I had to pull out my wallet and buy respect.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Three years later and drowning in lies, we’re suddenly prepared to lose everything for the chance at something real.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I glance back at Connor and Rose and realize they’ve been pretty much silent. They just stare at each other for a really, really long time, as though talking through their eyes. “Is this what smart people do?” I whisper to Lo. “They must have some superhuman telepathic power that we don’t have.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I wait for him to say the words, I'm done pretending.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Obviously he wants Nola to think he's an upstanding boyfriend, but the only girlfriend Loren Hale will ever treat well is his bottle of bourbon.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“He couldn't want someone like me.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Being called weird by Connor is like a unicorn calling a horse magical.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I needed him to fulfill a desire, one that does nothing but torment me. And he’s reminding me of everything I hate about myself.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Can we only be invited inside if you understand our costumes?” Connor asks. He cranes his neck to look past the host’s shoulder. “Because I think I spot a Sweeny Todd in there, and I know for a fact you’ve never heard of him.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“I try to imagine what type of girl Connor would seek, but she seems unfathomable--like a hazy picture with only her brain showing.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“Where will I be? What will I be? White empty space fills the void, unsure of what picture to paint.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
“We’re terrible at so many things—remembering important dates, college, making friends—but the one thing we’ve always been halfway decent at is being together.”
― Krista Ritchie, quote from Addicted to You
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“When both men had their shirt off, as they did right now, it was like living in an Abercrombie & Fitch ad- a six-pack celebration, complete with triceps and biceps galore.
No doubt about it, Dolphina loved her new job.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, quote from All Through the Night
“The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable. A traveler journeys along a fine road. It has been strewn with traps. He falls into one. Do you say it is the traveler’s fault, or that of the scoundrel who lays the traps?”
― Marquis de Sade, quote from Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
“He put his coffee cup aside and got to his feet. She thought he was leaving when he pulled her into his arms and held her close. Just held her, held her, held her.”
― Anne Frasier, quote from Hush
“What would have happened had he not been killed? He would certainly have had a rocky road to the nomination. The power of the Johnson administration and much of the party establishment was behind Humphrey. Still, the dynamism was behind Kennedy, and he might well have swept the convention. If nominated, he would most probably have beaten the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Individuals do make a difference to history. A Robert Kennedy presidency would have brought a quick end to American involvement in the Vietnam War. Those thousands of Americans—and many thousands more Vietnamese and Cambodians—who were killed from 1969 to 1973 would have been at home with their families. A Robert Kennedy presidency would have consolidated and extended the achievements of John Kennedy’s New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The liberal tide of the 1960s was still running strong enough in 1969 to affect Nixon’s domestic policies. The Environmental Protection Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act with its CETA employment program were all enacted under Nixon. If that still fast-flowing tide so influenced a conservative administration, what signal opportunities it would have given a reform president! The confidence that both black and white working-class Americans had in Robert Kennedy would have created the possibility of progress toward racial reconciliation. His appeal to the young might have mitigated some of the under-thirty excesses of the time. And of course the election of Robert Kennedy would have delivered the republic from Watergate, with its attendant subversion of the Constitution and destruction of faith in government. RRK”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., quote from Robert Kennedy and His Times
“Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the world. Are not our heightened times the important ones? For we have nuclear bombs. Are we not especially significant because our century is? - our century and its unique Holocaust, its refugee populations, its serial totalitarian exterminations; our century and its antibiotics, silicon chips, men on the moon, and spliced genes? No, we are not and it is not. These times of ours are ordinary times, a slice of life like any other. Who can bear to hear this, or who will consider it?...
Take away the bomb threat and what are we? Ordinary beads on a never-ending string. Our time is a routine twist of an improbable yarn...There must be something heroic about our time, something that lifts it above all those other times. Plague? Funny weather? Dire things are happening...
Why are we watching the news, reading the news, keeping up with the news? Only to enforce our fancy - probably a necessary lie - that these are crucial times, and we are in on them. Newly revealed, and we are in the know: crazy people, bunches of them. New diseases, shifts in power, floods! Can the news from dynastic Egypt have been any different?”
― Annie Dillard, quote from For the Time Being
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