“How could someone make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they were started?”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“In my head, I reminded myself that he was taken, but I couldn't get over the feeling that he had always been mine.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“We were his. It was as terrifying and as simple as that.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“They were the most beautiful things I'd ever seen in my entire goddamn life, and they were worth every fuckin' bruise I had.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“Best mama in the world, and I’m the lucky bastard who knocked her up.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“My daughter has a mother. She is not and never will be yours. You stay the fuck away from her. And if I ever see you look at her again the way you were earlier, I'll fucking cut your eyes out with a dull spoon.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I was the princess of the Aces MC, and I had the bloody knuckles to prove it.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I can't believe you had my baby. She was all curled up in here, and I never saw it." He shook his head. "This is all I'll ever see, Brenna. This is all I get. Let me look.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I'd never imagined the world I chose would be far worse than the one I had left.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I assumed he had taken his bitch home to make sure she didn't need to see a dentist. I was pretty sure I'd knocked some shit loose.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I wanted a husband who paid taxes and would take his car to a mechanic for routine maintenance. he wouldn't get his hands dirty, wouldn't raise his voice, and wouldn't carry a gun.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“That was the best thing about this club and something I'd always craved growing up. You might fuck up, but the brothers wouldn't ever act like you weren't welcome. They'd punish you, but then it would be over, forgotten. You'd be back in the fold.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I knew it was going to be a process for us to put things behind us, but I was willing to be patient. When I looked at him, I saw everything I wanted. That was enough.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“Yeah, okay, Brenna. You wanna pretend like you and me aren’t what we are, that’s fine. I’m not gonna pretend. I’m not takin’ your bullshit either. Baby, I’ve been waitin’ five years for you. That shit’s never gone away. So, you can bitch and moan and make your own life miserable, or you can suck it the fuck up and get on the same page with me. I’m not goin’ anywhere.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I didn’t know any sexy dance moves. I could just envision myself trying to be sexy and ending up looking like the kid from Napoleon Dynamite.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“It's the hottest thing I've ever seen watching you take me. Not sayin' you're a bump on a log, for fuck's sake. You trust me to give it to you. You know I will, and you let me do it. I know you haven't been with many men, but let me tell you, that ain't how it usually is. You're so fuckin' sexy layin' there, sayin' my name, makin' those noises you mkae. Wouldn't trade that for anything.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I can’t believe you had my baby. She was all curled up in here, and I never saw it.” He shook his head. “This is all I’ll ever see, Brenna. This is all I get. Let me look.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“Thank God. Another fuckin’ dick in the house. Gettin’ tired of all those fuckin’ Barbies,” he told me, a huge grin on his face. “We got a boy, Mama.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I could just envision myself trying to be sexy and ending up looking like the kid from Napoleon Dynamite.”
― Nicole Jacquelyn, quote from Craving Constellations
“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, quote from A Princess of Mars
“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from The Curse of Chalion
“He handed me a bandana. "Tie that on."
"Why?" I said, but I did it anyway. "Norman, you are way too into ceremony."
"It's important." I could hear him moving around, adjusting things, before he came to sit beside me. "Okay," he said. "Take a look."
I pulled off the blindfold. Beside me, Norman watched me see myself for the first time.
And it was me. At least, it was a girl who looked like me. She was sitting on the back stoop of the restaurant, legs crossed and dangling down. She had her head slightly tilted, as if she had been asked something and was waiting for the right moment to respond, smiling slightly behind the sunglasses that were perched on her nose, barely reflecting part of a blue sky.
The girl was something else, though. Something I hadn't expected. She was beautiful.
Not in the cookie-cutter way of all the faces encircling Isabel's mirror. And not in the easy, almost effortless style of a girl like Caroline Dawes. This girl who stared back at me, with her lip ring and her half smile - not quite earned - knew she wasn't like the others. She knew the secret. And she'd clicked her heels three times to find her way home.
"Oh, my God," I said to Norman, reaching forward to touch the painting, which still didn't seem real. My own face, bumpy and textured beneath my fingers, stared back at me. "Is this how you see me?"
"Colie." He was right beside me. "That's how you are.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Keeping the Moon
“You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“The second mouse gets the cheese!”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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