“He pecks my lips. I knew you were the one the second I laid eyes on you.
The one to bring me back to life.
‘How did you know?’ He’s talking. I need to extract as much from him as possible.He looks me straight in the eyes. They are bursting with meaning. ‘Because my heart starting beating again.' He whispers.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Ava, why the fuck am I handcuffed to the bed?”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I knew you were the one the second I laid eyes on you.'
'The one?'
'The one to bring me back to life.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Damn you, Jesse Ward, of an age I don't know!”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I want the woman with me who keeps my heart beating.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I am confident, because you said yes. Or was it....." He looks up to the ceiling in deep thought and then back at me. "Oh, I remember. It was...yes, yes, yes, fucking hell, yes!”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I want you here when I go to sleep." He licks my bottom lip. "And I want you here when I wake up. Starting and ending my day with you is all I need.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Where you're concerned, I'll try my best, Ava. I already told you, I've waited too long for you. You're my little piece of heaven. Nothing will rob you from me. Nothing.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“You're mine, and mine alone, baby. Just for my eyes, just for my touch and just for my pleasure. Just mine. Do you understand me?”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“It's pure bliss, baby. Total gratification. Absolute, complete earth shifting, universe shaking love.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I want to be your life.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“You're so handsome." I mumble dreamily, as he starts working the cream over every inch of my back. "I think I'll keep you forever.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“You were drunk. I wanted to hear the words when you were of sound mind. Women get drunk all the time and confess their undying love to me.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“As long as I have you, I have purpose and reason. That is why I won't be drinking and that is why I will do everything in my power to keep you safe. Understand?”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Promise me you'll never leave me.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I'm going to make you happy for the rest of my life, baby. Lets dance.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Never Ava.All I need is you and for you to need me. Nothing else." Jesse”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I love you so fucking much. I didn't think it was possible.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Now, we have sleepy celebration sex.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I'm so glad. You're the best birthday present I've ever had.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Ava, you're driving like Miss Daisy. Will you put your foot down?”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I can't believe you're in my life, I can't believe you're mine. You are so, so precious to me, baby.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“Ava, you're asking me not to touch you. That goes against all of my instincts.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I don't know what I've done to deserve you.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“No, you're a child because of the way you eat peanut butter. No one over the age of ten should finger dip jars and as I'm being kept in the dark over your age, I assume that you are over ten.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I'm going to worship you every day for the rest of my life.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, quote from Beneath This Man
“I’ve been in love with you for months. I’m telling you now because I think you love me, too, Anna. You just don’t think you’re supposed to. You’ll tell me when you’re ready. I can wait.”
― Tracey Garvis-Graves, quote from On the Island
“A Mason? Bejesus, no - I've been a Catholic all my life, I'll have you know!”
― Robert Shea, quote from The Illuminatus! Trilogy
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”
― Susan Cain, quote from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Tush!
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;
Talkers are no good doers: be assured
We come to use our hands and not our tongues.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Richard III
“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship.
It will keep the vultures at bay.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, quote from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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