“I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad . . . and I love it all.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“And it killed me because I could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many years I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him...”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I don’t get to have this. I already told you… you deserve someone who can love you, someone who will be good for you, and you know that’s not me.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“And it killed me because i could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many year I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Hearts have a way of finding their way home.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Mom once told me Aly had me wrapped around her little finger. She’d been wrong. Aly had held me in the palm of her hand.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“You’re going to forget about me and find happiness. You’re going to find someone who can love you exactly the way you deserve to be loved.” I lowered myself so I could directly meet her face. “Do you hear me?”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I never wanted you to see me like I was tonight,” he said, “but it was inevitable… all of this is… inevitable. And still I stay because I don’t fucking know how to walk away from you. Last night… ” He wrenched a trembling hand through his hair. “Fuck, Aly… last night was the closest I’ve come to feeling something real in so long.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“If I believed in soul mates or any of that shit, I knew she was mine. I could feel it, this connection with her I couldn’t possibly share with anyone else. Like we fit, this fucked -up puzzle that made no sense until we aligned the pieces.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“It was always you, Jared. Always. I can’t remember a day in my life when I didn’t love you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“You were my first crush.” She sobered, her voice strained as sincere green eyes slanted up to me . “And my only love.” Her throat bobbed as she swallowed, almost painfully. “I’ve been waiting for you my whole life.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Never in my life had I felt as exposed as I did right then. Her fingertips softened as they traced along the outline of my sins, as she caressed the markings of every mistake I’d ever made as if this girl somehow found some kind of beauty in them.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I’m going to walk away and I’m going to forget about you, Aly. And you’re going to do the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“And God, it kills me to think of hurting you.”
I grasped his face between urgent hands. “Then don’t.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Don’t, Aly.” He ran his thumb over my cheek. “You think I can’t feel this? How badly you want the things I can’t give you? That’s why it makes me sick that I’m doing this, because I already warned you… you can’t fix me, and you can’t say or do something that will change my mind or fill up the void in my soul”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“It made me fucking crazy, and I fucking ruined it. I’m sorry I ruined it, Aly, but I warned you that I would.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“How could I not?” My hand fluttered in her direction, wishing I could make every fucking inch of space separating us disappear. “I lied to you, Aly. That night… ” I swallowed hard as my attention shot to the place where I’d left her behind before I angled it back on her. “I left knowing I could never forget you, but praying somehow you could forget me. And I know I shouldn’t be here. I know I should give you a chance to forget, but, Aly… I miss you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“This—this was our deception, where I wanted to live until the day I died. Where nothing was real but the secrets we whispered in the night.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I ruin every fucking thing I touch, Aly, and I refuse to ruin you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I don’t get you, Jared. Did you think you could stay here and I’d just ignore you? I care about you.”
“Don’t say that,” he whispered”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“The boy was painted in his pain”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“It isn’t worth it if it doesn’t hurt a little.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Jared, no. Please don’t do this. Don’t leave me. I love you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“A still heart quickens as beauty graces the foul.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I bet whatever you keep hidden in the pages of those books is absolutely beautiful, Aly .” He swallowed, diverting his gaze to the far wall before he dropped it to meet mine. A tender palm came to rest on the side of my face. He caressed his thumb over the apple of my cheek. “How could it not be? Look at you . . . you have to be the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen.”
Pain reverberated in his words. Still they wrapped around me like the warmest embrace.
My fingers ventured to his chest, twisting in his shirt. The strong throb of his pulse thundered under them. “Everything I love is in the pages of those books, Jared.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Could either of us ever forget the connection we’d shaped, one carved out in those perfect hours spent alone in my room?
No. Not me.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“You grew up on me, Aly,” he murmured, the words rough, almost in awe.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
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“This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, quote from Eating Animals
“Tout est kitsch, si l'on veut. La musique dans son ensemble est kitsch; l'art est kitsch; la littérature elle-même est kitsch. Toute émotion est kitsch, pratiquement par définition; mais toute réflexion aussi, et même dans un sens toute action. La seule chose qui ne soit absolument pas kitsch, c'est le néant.”
― Michel Houellebecq, quote from The Possibility of an Island
“...you can have all the right notions in your head without ever tasting in your heart the realities to which they refer; and a simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Saviour than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct. The reason is that the former will deal with God regarding the practical application of truth to his life, whereas the latter will not.”
― J.I. Packer, quote from Knowing God
“When I saw my friend kissing the woman he loved it occurred to me that this moment, this instant stolen from time and from God, was worth all the days of misery that had brought us to this place and the many others that were doubtless waiting for us on our return to life. And that everything that was decent and clean and pure in this world and everything for which it was worth living and breathing was in those lips, in those hands and in the look of that fortunate couple who, I know, would be together for the rest of their lives.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Prisoner of Heaven
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