“I wanted to tell you that I couldn't stop thinking about your face. That you had burrowed your way so deep into my veins that I would fucking bleed you. That if I died tomorrow, I could go a happy man for having felt your lips on my skin.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “You're right, baby. We began out of something ugly. But what we became was something beautiful. I just wish I could make you see that.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Then you need to fight for him. Don't give up on something like that. It doesn't come along very often. And when you find it, you hold on tight. You lock that shit down with an iron fist and you never, ever let go. Even when life tries to take it from you, you smack life upside its head like a little bitch and you keep on fighting for it.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Stop it!" she hissed. I frowned and rubbed my arm. "What are you talking about?" I whispered back. Riley pointed at me, waggling her finger. "I know that look on your face! You're picturing him naked with you naked.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I knew Jordan's type. And I was attracted to them like bees to tasty, hormone soaked honey.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “So what did I do? I crawled back into my bed and ate another gallon of ice creamy goodness and tried to forget the tattooed bartender who had bulldozed his way into my life. Stupid dick wad.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “But tell me, Mays, why is it that all I can fucking think about is you? Why am I so eager to take another guy's head off for touching you? Why is it when I lay in bed at night I wish it was you there beside me?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “You have taken my heart, every inch of me Maysie. I don't know that I have anything else to give you that you don't have already”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “This. I can't keep doing this. I can't keep pretending that I don't want you. That I can handle seeing other guys watch you and look at you. Jesus, Mays, I wanted to beat the shit out of Gio! And I would have! I see fucking red when another guy even breathes in your direction! I can't keep lying to myself that I don't care about you. Because I do. SO damn much.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “It matters to me, Mays. It matters a lot. I don't like seeing some other guy touching you. Not when it should be me touching you”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “I've been miserable. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I've wanted to pound down your doora million times. But I kept telling myself you just needed your space. That you'd sort your shit out. So I give you space. Then Riley tells me you're as miserable as I am. So I agree to come here. I had it all worked out in my head, Mays. I was going to come here and beg you to take me back. Hell, I was going to get on my knees if I had to. Because all I know is that I can't be without you.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I hope I always deserve you”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Do you need to hear that I haven't stopped missing you for one single since we broke up? Do I have to tell you that my heart hurts with how much I love you?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I meant what I said, Mays. I love you. So damn much. And you'll wake up in the morning and realize you threw away something fucking perfect for NOTHING!”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being a brother. Or being a man. Because a real man sure as hell would never have disrespected a woman the way each and everyone of you have disrespected Maysie.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “Why, Maysie? What more do you need me to tell you? Haven't I already handed my fucking guts to you on a platter? What else do you need to hear?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I hated him calling you 'his girl.' Because I want you all to myself”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Stop running, girl
 It won't always feel like this”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I know I'm with Olivia. I know that was a deal breaker for you. But goddamn it, I don't want to be with her. I only want you. It has only been you from the moment you walked into Barton's.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Don't start this immature shit, please. If I gave a damn about any of those girls would I be here right now?”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “Come home with me tonight. Please. Let's figure all this out...together”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I'm sorry if I pissed you off.I'm sorry if I acted like a fucker.But I'm not sorry for chasing off that pansy ass that used to have what's mine.Because you're my girl now and I won't have that asshole sniffing around where he doesn't belong.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “I love you, Maysie," he said in a strangled whisper”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “So here I am, watching you run.
I wish you'd stop trying to leave.
How easy you forget
that you're my reason to breathe.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Didn't we talk about this Mays?" she asked.
I looked away from her. "It's just hanging out."
"And denial is just a river in Egypt. You ain't foolin' nobody," she quipped.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                    “I don't like seeing some other guy touching you. Not when it should be me touching you.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Every love song I write now is because of you. Every song I will ever write for the rest of my life will be because of you.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                    “Who gives a damn about their reputation? Oh, that would be me.”
                                    
                                    
                                    ― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep
                                
                                
                                “You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!”
                                
                                
                                    ― Amanda Hocking, quote from Flutter
                                
                            
                                “I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a bad sign. It's a slippery slope, and it's best just to sit in chairs, to eat when hungry, to sleep and rise and work. But we have all been there. Chairs are for people, and you're not sure if you are one.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Miranda July, quote from No One Belongs Here More Than You
                                
                            
                                “As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Tales of Mystery and Imagination
                                
                            
                                “She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. And, each day, takes less and less nourishment, as if grudging the least moment of wakefulness, for, from the movement under her eyelids, and the somnolent gestures of her hands and feet, it seems as if her dreams grow more urgent and intense, as if the life she lives in the closed world of dreams is now about to possess her utterly, as if her small, increasingly reluctant wakenings were an interpretation of some more vital existence, so she is loath to spend even those necessary moments of wakefulness with us, wakings strange as her sleepings. Her marvellous fate - a sleep more lifelike than the living, a dream which consumes the world.
'And, sir,' concluded Fevvers, in a voice that now took on the sombre, majestic tones of a great organ, 'we do believe . . . her dream will be the coming century.
'And, oh, God . . . how frequently she weeps!”
                                
                                
                                    ― Angela Carter, quote from Nights at the Circus
                                
                            
                                “Rule number one: never assume your mate spends all her time in the kitchen.”
                                
                                
                                    ― Nicky Charles, quote from The Mating
                                
                            
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