“You can overcome anything...short of death.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I love you... I don't want you to ever question it. I'd give up my life for yours. That's how much I love you. Don't you dare ever doubt that.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I never planned on falling for you. You were just an assignment. But it just sort of happened and now... There's not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile, my entire world stops. All I see is you. I need you.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Shhh..." He grips me closer to his body and then softly whispers in my ear, "I'm about to kiss you, and once I start I won't be able to stop. Just thought I should warn you.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I wasn’t actually sleeping, more like daydreaming with my eyes closed.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“He takes my face into his hand, and reassures me. "So outside of these walls, we can't stand each other.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“The last thing I want is for you to be afraid of me. But I want you to trust me. I need you to trust me." He sighs and I hear the pain and confusion in his voice.
"Why?"
"I don't know why and it scares the hell out of me." He swallows hard...
Part of me screams for him to run for his own safety, but I don't want him to move. My heart begs... Please stay with me. Forever.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“I don't want to die, but at the same time, I wish I were dead.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Treat everyone equal. We are all born the same and die the same.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Just leave me," I whisper in his ear.
"Never.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“All I want is to help you heal. To hold you when you cry. To glue you back together when you break apart. I want to reach out my hand and help you back up.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“You’re amazing just the way you are. There’s not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile… my entire world stops. And all I see is you. I need you, Lexi.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“what point do they believe what’s been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are inside?”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Most of all, I wish for peace. If I survive this, all I want is to live with Cole and to live in peace for the rest of my life, knowing I made the right choice.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“It doesn't matter now. What's done is done. It's in the past, so let's leave it there. Plus, if we could rewind time and fix our mistakes, we'd never learn from them. Right?”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“No matter how this world changes, you can survive.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“To the outside, I'm filth now. I'll never be allowed to return to the life I knew. No one ever does.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Why the hell are you wearing it on your left hand? I swear to God, if you're married I'm going to kick your ass. I'm not joking.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“Why the hell are you wearing it on your left hand? I swear to God, if you're married I'm going to kick your ass. I'm not joking.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“You’re all I think about. My mind is constantly consumed by you, and it scares the hell out of me.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LUST — BLUE GLUTTONY — ORANGE GREED — YELLOW SLOTH — BLACK WRATH — RED ENVY — GREEN PRIDE — PURPLE”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“So we’ll take one day at a time, because each day is one day we didn’t have before.”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“You can overcome anything short of death”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“At times, I want to explode like a bomb or give in to my animalistic instincts like the others. But my father raised me better. He’d”
― Abi Ketner, quote from Branded
“When Marsyas was 'torn from the scabbard of his limbs' - DELLA VAGINA DELLA MEMBRE SUE, to use one of Dante's most terrible Tacitean phrases - he had no more song, the Greek said. Apollo had been victor. The lyre had vanquished the reed. But perhaps the Greeks were mistaken. I hear in much modern Art the cry of Marsyas. It is bitter in Baudelaire, sweet and plaintive in Lamartine, mystic in Verlaine. It is in the deferred resolutions of Chopin's music. It is in the discontent that haunts Burne- Jones's women. Even Matthew Arnold, whose song of Callicles tells of 'the triumph of the sweet persuasive lyre,' and the 'famous final victory,' in such a clear note of lyrical beauty, has not a little of it; in the troubled undertone of doubt and distress that haunts his verses, neither Goethe nor Wordsworth could help him, though he followed each in turn, and when he seeks to mourn for THYRSIS or to sing of the SCHOLAR GIPSY, it is the reed that he has to take for the rendering of his strain. But whether or not the Phrygian Faun was silent, I cannot be. Expression is as necessary to me as leaf and blossoms are to the black branches of the trees that show themselves above the prison walls and are so restless in the wind. Between my art and the world there is now a wide gulf, but between art and myself there is none. I hope at least that there is none.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from De Profundis and Other Writings
“Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you're officially a grown-up when you've got another half. When you don't have to live in fear of other couples. When you don't have to feel you're not good enough.”
― Jane Green, quote from Mr. Maybe
“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?”
― Meg Cabot, quote from When Lightning Strikes
“I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass”
― Keith Richards, quote from Life
“Murder, you see, is an amateur crime. I'm speaking of course of the kind of murder you have in mind - not gangster stuff. One feels, very often, as though these nice ordinary chaps had been overtaken, as it were, by murder, almost accidentally. They've been in a tight place, or they've wanted something very badly, money or a woman - and they've killed to get it. The brake that operates with most of us doesn't operate with them.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Crooked House
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