“And I want to devour her in some sick way, to press her into myself so the two of us aren’t individual people anymore, but one living, breathing entity, where the threat of separation can never trouble us again.”
― quote from Collateral
“My heart. I wrap my heart around him as I cling on for dear life. He kisses me, his lips finding mine, and I don’t need to breathe anymore. His mouth on mine is all I need. His hands holding me tight is all I need. Just him. He is everything.”
― quote from Collateral
“Oh my god, no wonder she went so pale. She’s going to string you up for this, baby.” Sloane laughs. Baby. I’ve wanted to hit loved-up assholes for using that endearment before. But when Sloane says it… I don’t really know what to think. I catch Michael’s amused smile, itching at the corners of his mouth, and I don’t feel like busting his balls. I just raise my eyebrows at him, a look of shock and amusement of my own. The fucker grins, then, like it’s Christmas day and Mom and Dad aren’t fighting.”
― quote from Collateral
“He kisses me, his lips finding mine, and I don’t need to breathe anymore. His mouth on mine is all I need. His hands holding me tight is all I need. Just him. He is everything.”
― quote from Collateral
“Do you trust me now?” “Yes. I trust you.” My lips tingle as he kisses me, then. A soft, light, barely there kiss that causes heat to pool in the bottom of my stomach. “Thank you, Sloane,” he whispers. “I’m going to hurt you now, but I promise you’re going to like it.”
― quote from Collateral
“Do you think she’s forever?” Michael stares straight ahead, waiting for the doors to the elevator to open. “Oh, I knew you were her forever as soon as I saw the way she looked at you, Zee.” He slides his hands into his pockets, clears his throat. And then he turns and looks me straight in the eye and says, “I’m just really glad you’ve figured out she’s yours, man. Because you deserve that. And so does she.”
― quote from Collateral
“My body is sore in a way that makes me smile secretly to myself. Zeth-sore. I’m a fan of being Zeth-sore.”
― quote from Collateral
“You will never need to spend the night in a cell on my account, Sloane. Never. I’ll die before I let that happen.”
― quote from Collateral
“There’s only one woman on the face of this planet who I’d let fucking cuff me. And you are not her.”
― quote from Collateral
“I want to make you happy, Sloane. I want to keep you safe.”
― quote from Collateral
“But there’s a soft side to Zeth he’s finally showing to me, and every time I catch a glimpse of it, I feel myself falling harder.”
― quote from Collateral
“He looks straight at me, like he’s looking into me, and then does something that makes my heart sing. He lifts our hands to his mouth and lays a gentle kiss on my wrist. “It doesn’t matter what you look like, Sloane. You’re the strongest person I know.”
― quote from Collateral
“Calm the fuck down? Okay, I’ll calm the fuck down when you tell me exactly where my girlfriend is.” The word girlfriend trips off my tongue before I even have a chance to second-guess it. No second-guessing is required, though. Sloane is my girlfriend. She’s even more than that.”
― quote from Collateral
“Once Sloane’s back where she’s supposed to be…I’m gonna need to borrow a suit.”
― quote from Collateral
“Oh, the irony’s so bittersweet, I feel like I’m choking on it.”
― quote from Collateral
“I’m glad I’ve impressed you,” she says. I can’t believe this woman. What the fuck did I ever do to deserve someone like her? To deserve the look she’s giving me right now? It’s a mystery I’ll never be able to work out. “Sloane, always consider me impressed.”
― quote from Collateral
“Tell me why. Tell me why you want to do this now.” “Because I don’t want to hurt her. Because I want to make her happy.” These are two of the truest statements that have ever passed my lips. I’ve never meant anything more.”
― quote from Collateral
“Because the woman I can’t live without is inherently good, and deserves someone better than me. Because Sloane deserves everything, and I want to give it to her.”
― quote from Collateral
“This time I’m actually holding her, and I’m meant to be here. I fall asleep for the very first time with a woman in my arms. It feels like heaven.”
― quote from Collateral
“If you’re pulled under a wave, don’t fight it. You’ll never win. The ocean’s a hell of a lot stronger than you. It’s wild. All you have to do is hold your breath. Relax. Go with the wave, and eventually you’ll rise to the surface.”
― quote from Collateral
“And I love you, angry girl. I really do.”
― quote from Collateral
“We don’t say anything. We don’t need to. I tell him everything he needs to know with my eyes, and he does the same. And then we fall asleep.”
― quote from Collateral
“He picks me up, and he carries me inside the house that will now be our home, and he fucks me until his name is echoing off our bedroom walls.”
― quote from Collateral
“I’m going to hurt you now, but I promise you’re going to like it.”
― quote from Collateral
“I want to make you happy, Sloane. I want to keep you safe. This life isn’t what you deserve.”
― quote from Collateral
“I nod, and Zeth closes the final few inches between us. And he kisses me. Kisses. Me. For as long as I live, for as long as we’re together, I will never be complacent about receiving a kiss from this man. Ever. I waited so long for the first one that now this and every other time he reaches for me and places his lips against mine will be an action to be treasured.”
― quote from Collateral
“Thank you, Sloane,” he whispers. “I’m going to hurt you now, but I promise you’re going to like it.”
― quote from Collateral
“He’ll be okay. I promise. He’ll be okay, because he has you.”
― quote from Collateral
“Now I am polite, but I am also taken. I will never be smiling at another woman the way she just smiled at me.”
― quote from Collateral
“Without missing a beat he said, “This year, Santa, I’d like a pony and an Easy-Bake Oven.”
Raja grunted and pushed him off to the side. “You’ll be getting coal in a place where it hurts if you ever attempt to sit in my lap again.”
― Karsten Knight, quote from Wildefire
“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.”
― Julian Jaynes, quote from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“I guess when you love someone, you don't mind making sacrifices.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“They snuffed out their own lights and ducked into one of the upper corridors.”
― Taran Matharu, quote from The Novice
“Let him come to Charcy, with his hithertos and his wherefores, and there he will find me, and with all the might of my kingdom I will scourge him from the field.
"And if you want a personal message," said Laurent, "You can tell my uncle boykiller that he can cut the head off every child from here to the capital. It won't make him into a king, it will simply mean he has no one left to fuck.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Prince's Gambit
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