“I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.”
“Goodbye, Ash. You were the best-and worst-thing that ever happened to me.”
“This is hard...
Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash”
“Girlfriends' code. What's discussed with girlfriends stays with girlfriends.”
“Every day. I have to show you every day what you'll mean to me. That's on me. And we'll get there. This-- you-- are important to me. I'm going to make sure you know that at all times.' -- Ash”
“He also knew that this woman was different from all the women who'd come before her. That part scared the shit out of him and excited him all at the same time. What if she was the one? That woman who, when a man saw her, he was instantly struck with the knowledge that he was done for. Like Mia was for Gabe. Like Bethany was for Jace. The one.' -- Ash”
“Wait just a goddamn minute, Josie. We're not finished. No way in fuck I'm giving up that easy. You're worth fighting for.”
“His heart was in the right place even if he went about it all wrong.”
“I don't want you to ever be touched by the gray areas I'm immersed in, baby. I want you clean. I want you to shine, just like you always do.”
“Falling in love is the easy part. It's everything else that happens afterward that's hard and takes work.”
“Then it's too bad I don't belong to you.”
“I think you know I want you, Josie. I certainly haven't made it a secret. But you also need to think about all I would take. I take a lot. I give more, but I take everything.”
“You're not going to lose me. Never that. I'm always going to be here.”
“I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.”
“Yeah, it's you. It suits you. I wanted something to match your eyes, but I also wanted something that reflected your personality. Your vibrancy.”
“And that makes Mia sad. But it's okay. She'll have Bethany. And me.”
“If you're asking me if I have blood on my hands then yeah, no doubt.”
“He wanted to tie her to him in ways she'd never escape. But they'd be the most loving, silken ties in the world.”
“You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.”
“I'm more concerned with what you think.”
“She's not just any woman. I don't know, man. She hits buttons that a woman have never pushed for me.”
“Pink is you. Definitely your color.”
“I won't lie to you, Josie. So becareful what you ask.”
“I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.”
“I will protect you all the days of my life. You will be the mother of all who live and the giver of life to the seed spoken by the One -- the seed that will strike the offspring of the serpent. The One has said it, Isha...today I name you Havah, because you will live, and all who live will come from you, and you will give birth to hope.”
“He poked her shoulder. 'Ellie? Ellie?'
'What? Oh, I'm sorry.' Her face colored, even though she knew he couldn't possibly read her thoughts. 'Just woolgathering.'
'Darling, you were practically hugging a sheep.”
“Up to this moment in her life, Audrey had never evinced the slightest sentimentality about children. Insofar as she had recognized them as an independent category of personhood, she had tended to think of them as trainee humans. Inadequate adults. She loved her own daughters well enough - wanted them to be happy and so forth - but they had failed to inspire in her that mad, lioness passion to which other mothers so preeningly testified. She was still in some shock regarding the servility of motherhood - the sheer, thankless drudgery of it. All the cleaning up of messes she had made and preparing meals she did not want to eat. She fed her girls regularly and diligently brushed their teeth twice a day and made sure they were more or less appropriately dressed for the weather, but beyond a dull sense of satisfaction at having fulfilled her maternal duties, she received no pleasure from performing these tasks. Try as she might, she she could not feel her daughters' happiness and sorrows as her own.”
“Do you always introduce yourself by insulting people?”
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