“I knew you were the next one the second I laid my eyes on you singing in that club, but you can never imagine my surprise when I realized that you weren't just the next one—you were the last one”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“It's you, Jack Henry. It will always be you in every song I sing.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I can not believe you, Jack Henry!" Mum picks up her purse to smack me several good times. Hard. She's the only mother I know who would use her handbag to beat her thirty-year-old son.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“Laurelyn, I once asked you to be mine for three months. Now, I’m asking you to be mine forever.” She opens her mouth to speak and I place my fingers to her lips. “But I don’t want your answer right now because you’re not ready to say yes. You still need time to spread your wings and fly. I love you with all my heart and I want you to experience everything this life has to offer you because it won’t wait. But I will. I’ll wait for you as long as it takes, and you can come to me after you ‘ve had enough of this life…when you’re ready to spend forever with me.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I don't regret you for a second. You're my favorite complication and you always will be.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“Every song I write from here on out will be about Jack Henry. That's how our tale will go on and on forever—through my music. He will always be every song I sing”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I hear her soft, sweet voice against my ear and feel her trembling in my arms.
“Don’t leave,” she whispers.
I feel the tears when they come and I bury my face in her hair. “Don’t let me leave without you.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I interrupted whatever you were doing?”
“Indeed you did.”
“Son, if you stopped to answer the phone, then you weren’t doing whatever well enough and you need to get back to her and do it better. Don’t answer the phone next time.”
Damn. I just got zinged by my mum.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“You're everything I never knew I wanted. Every time I picture my future, it's always your face I see…with some little people who look like us.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“There's a pounding at the bedroom door, followed by my mum's voice. "I know your in there, you little shit, and I'm giving you two minutes to shut it down, get dressed, and get out of there."
We look at each other in the mirror and laugh as we simultaneously say. "Busted.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I swear you are my fucking dream come true.”
It’s amazing how he can take the sweetest things, throw the word “fucking” in the middle of it, and I could melt into a puddle at his feet. If my panties weren’t already off, I’d be dropping them after hearing him say that.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I can't lie. This—me and you—scares the shit out of me."
I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. "Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together than
be miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“It's because there are three guys in a girl's life: one she loves, one she hates, and one she can't get enough of. The three have one thing in common. They're all the same guy, and right now, Jack is the one you hate. You want to kick his nut sack into his gut, but you have to remember that he's also the one you love and can't get enough of.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“Tears spill down her cheeks. “I’m so pissed off at you right now that I can’t see straight. I simultaneously love the fuck out of you while I hate your guts. I don’t know if I want to slap your face or get naked with you.”
“My vote would be for getting naked, but I don’t think they’ll allow that here in the airport.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“Today I lay at your feet the man I’ve been so I may become the man you need me to be.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“You're surrendering your all to me, and I can't think of anything more beautiful than that. I once thought of you as my beauty from pain—when I thought I'd never see you again—but you're something entirely different. You're my beauty from surrender because that's what you're doing—relinquishing the person you once were to give yourself to me wholeheartedly. And I love you so much for it. I couldn't think of a better gift to give your bride.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“He's a morning man. And a night man. And an everything-in-between man”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“She is my everything and I'm never letting her get away again”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I take you to be my best friend, my lover, my husband, and the father of our children. I will cherish our union and love you more each day than I did the day before. I will trust you and respect
you, laugh with you and cry with you, loving you faithfully through good times and bad, regardless of the obstacles we may face together. I give you my hand, my heart, and my love from this day forward, for as long as we both shall live. You will always be every song I sing.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“You, caveman, are the best surprise I've had in…my entire life.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I’m going to do everything in my power to make it up to her because I hate what me without her looks like. I’m going to win her back, and when I do, I‘m never letting go of her again.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“No other man will ever reside here. It's reserved for you alone”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“There's been no other man since you —not inside my head, my heart, or my body.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“I may not be like the women who came before me, but there are some things that are the same. I want a husband and babies— plural—and if you don't, that's a problem for me.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“You're the only angel in my life, Laurelyn.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll never know how sorry I am for letting you slip through my fingers. But it won't happen again because I'm never letting you go. Ever”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“Laurelyn, I once asked you to be mine for three months. Now, I'm asking you to be mine forever.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
“A sweat-licking, ass-biting freak—that's what you are,”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Surrender
Georgia Cates
Born place: in The United States
Born date September 11, 1975
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“I don't know what kind of life we might have together," I said, never looking away from her warm brown eyes. "But I know I would protect you with the last scrap of my soul. I know I want to be there for you, to hold you, to dance for you, to hunt with you, to be with you no matter where Fate takes us, because it's the sound of your heartbeat that comforts me when I drift off to sleep, and I know I - I cannot offer you royalty. I'm not sure what I can offer you - but myself. Hopefully that is enough, because I love you, Betia, and I do implore you to be my mate.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, quote from Wolfcry
“I enjoy the presence of a woman in the house for brief periods of time. They fall into two categories: the organizers and the slobs. There’s probably a third category—the naggers, who try to get you to do things, but I’ve never run into one of those. Oddly, I have no preference regarding oganizers or slobs, as long as they don’t try to pick my clothes for me. Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. It works fine if people stick to their fated roles. But nobody does.”
― Nelson DeMille, quote from The General's Daughter
“People, he had said, were always being looked at as points, and they ought to be looked at as lines. There weren't any points, it was false to assume that a person ever was anything. He was always becoming something, always changing, always continuous and moving, like the wiggly line on a machine used to measure earthquake shocks. He was always what he was in the beginning, but never quite exactly what he was; he moved along a line dictated by his heritage and his environment, but he was subject to every sort of variation within the narrow limits of his capabilities.
...
She shut her mind on that too. There was danger in looking at people as lines. The past spread backward and you saw things in perspective that you hadn't seen then, and that made the future ominous, more ominous than if you just looked at the point, at the moment. There might be truth in what Bruce said, but there was not much comfort.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from The Big Rock Candy Mountain
“A veces es mejor confiar en tu imaginación. Los hechos te pueden decepcionar, pero tu mente, siempre te protegerá”
― Kevin Brooks, quote from Lucas
“Wainwright was telling some story, his face alight, and even across the room, Grey felt the warmth of his presence. As though he sensed their scrutiny, Percy glanced suddenly in their direction, and shot Grey a smile of such delight in his surroundings that Grey smiled back, delighted in turn to see him manage so well.
Lucinda Joffrey emitted a hum of approval.
“Oh, yes,” she said. “And quite good style, too. Did you dress him?” she inquired.
No, but I should like very much to undress him.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
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